Scaling up mass timber: Closing gaps, fueling innovation
Mass timber is transforming how America builds—but supply hasn’t kept pace with demand. A gap in domestic manufacturing has slowed widespread adoption, leaving many developers with few options beyond overseas suppliers or traditional steel and concrete.Through strategic support from the USDA Forest Service Wood Innovations Program, the Forest Service is helping close that gap—boosting U.S.…
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Wood is good
Wood is a renewable resource with countless uses, and sustainably harvesting wood to make wood products is good for the health of forests and local economies. The Forest Service's Wood Innovations grants are investing in wood products economies nationwide. Freres Engineered Wood, a Wood Innovations grant recipient and a company based in Oregon's Santiam Canyon, uses sustainably sourced wood from…
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Forest products of the future
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Bags of firewood are lined up on the Washoe Tribe of Nevada and California timber yard in Gardnerville, Nevada. The tribe delivers the firewood to tribal elders and those in need across the state. Thanks to a USDA Forest Service Wood Products…
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Forest products support healthy forests
Fall colors on the Superior National Forest show a diverse forested landscape. (USDA Forest Service photo by Steve Robertsen)
When you work with wood products, every week is forest products week! But this week, October 15-21, 2023, is when we take a moment to celebrate National Forest…
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Wood Innovations Program Grants
A processor makes wood chips from burned trees on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. (Photo by Zane Peterson)
Sustainably sourcing wood to make products helps to make our forests healthier and our communities more prosperous. The Forest Service invests in local wood economies through its…
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Firewood banks expand access to affordable home heating for tribes
An estimated 2.3 million American homes rely on firewood for home heating. Like many energy sources, the cost of firewood has increased in recent years. (© Viktor Pravdica - stock.adobe.com).
In many parts of the U.S., the months of January and February bring striking winter scenes of…