This paper provides an overview of ASEM/2003/052 Improving Financial Returns to Smallholder Tree Farmers in the Philippines funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and which commenced on 1 January 2004. ASEM/2003/052 involves a series of interrelated...

Boost in wages Potlatch forest workers to get 10 per cent gain Benefit to 2,300 toilers Increase comes at christmas when taxes are due following Four-L conference series. Approximately 2,300 employes of Potlatch Forests, Inc., operating sawmills at Lewiston, Potlatch and Coeur d'Alene and...

$1,000,000 timber deal in Oregon. - 800,000,000 feet on Starret & Hovey lands. - On Suislaw river. - Stout Lumber Company of North Bend buys -- mill rumor unconfirmed. - Sale of the Starret & Hovey timber lands, on 14,000 acres of which there is estimated to be 700,000,000 or 800,000,000 feet of...

Lumber trade in Idaho shows huge increase. - Mills hum in gem state as retail yards report great gains in sales; building leaps ahead. - Idaho's timber industry has come back from a condition of idle woods camps to near capacity production at bustling sawmills. Demand for building materials has...

Oregon pulp & paper to pay interest on income bonds. / by Leon B. Baketel. - The outlook for Oregon Pulp & Paper company is not only satisfactory but bright for a prosperous 1937, according to the report of F. W. Leadbetter, president, made at the annual stockholders' meeting.

Admits fixing lumber prices. - "Question of jail or poorhouse" in 1916 for mill men, says Bloedel. - At federal hearing. - Memory fails about recommending "adjustment of items now out of line." - J. H. Bloedel of this city, vice president of the Douglas Fir Exploitation and Export company, on...

Asserts lumber prices not fixed. - Seattle broker testifies in behalf of Douglas Fir Exploitation Company. - R. D. King, a lumber broker of this city, declared here today to Examiner W. W. Sheppard, in a hearing on charges made by the federal trade commission that the Douglas Fir Exploitation...

Lumber trade improves. - Weyerhaeuser Sales manager reviews conditions. - There has been some improvement in the lumber market in the last 30 days, but the situation is still far from being what it should, said I. N. Tate, manager of the Weyerhaeuser Sales company, yesterday. The recent slump in...

Lumber price goes up. - Weyerhaeuser trustees told plan is to better earnings. - Trustees of the Weyerhaeuser Sales Corporation help their quarterly meeting yesterday at the office of the corporation in the Old National building. T. J. Humbird of Spokane, president of the Humbird Lumber company,...

Purchases standing timber. - Edwards-Bradford Company buys Humbird Holdings. - A deal was made at the office of the Humbird Lumber company here today, in which the Edwards-Bradford Lumber company, Elk, purchased a quantity of standing timber in the Spirit valley district from the Humbird firm....