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Social Forestry Project, West Kalimantan, Indonesia
NTFPs. One of the main products is rubber, which is important both locally and nationally. Everything is carefully controlled to preserve the forest environment. Individual trees are felled and then cut up by portable sawmills.The pieces are carried to the nearest road. In this way very little damage is done to the surrounding forest. ...
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The social forestry project West Kalimantan
NTFPs. One of the main products is rubber, which is important both locally and nationally. Everything is carefully controlled to preserve the forest environment. Individual trees are felled and then cut up by portable sawmills.The pieces are carried to the nearest road. In this way very little damage is done to the surrounding forest. ...
focusonforests.org

How Do We Benefit From Our Forests?
Maine has 15 major paper mills and 500 sawmills, some of which are portable sawmills that can be towed from one site to another. Specialty mills process log ... $900 million to the Maine economy every year. Electricity Biomass power plants burn wood wastes from sawmills and logging operations to generate electricity. The ten biomass plants in the state, which are all ...
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Green Building
Itemized lists of the lumber required were sent to several sawmills, and to our considerable surprise, the total cost averaged almost $20,000. Anyone who has ... alternatives. Numerous magazines on the subject of back-to-the-country living carry advertisements for portable sawmills, and we found several with recent feature articles on adventurous individuals with no prior ...
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R.I.C. Video activist project
This is the story of an attempt to save forest by reaching land-holders BEFORE the logging companies and offering them a sustainable forestry management plan and low impact portable sawmills (the walkabout or wokabout sawmill). The result- a small area of forest is sustainably harvested and thousands of hectares are ...
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Papua New Guinea
Ecoforestry Initiatives: The use of small scale, portable sawmills has been put forward by several environmental organisations as a possible solution to the problems that arise from industrial ...
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Science in Africa, Africa's First On-Line Science Magazine, Home Page
Peterson Portable Sawmills Placing the power of processing timber in small producers' hands, this sawmill is featured as this month's bush mechanic invention. New technology addresses oil crisis As demand for crude oil increases, the launch of the ...
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Sustaining Penn's Woods: The Forest Products Industry
Pennsylvania are: Primary processors, such as loggers, sawmills, pulp and paper mills Secondary processors, such as furniture, flooring, cabinet and pallet manufacturers, millwork ... and approved by the PA Department of Education. *In order to view and print PDF (Portable Document Format) documents, you will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 plug-in. If ...
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news_press_lumbergrading
Due to the size and nature of local sawmills – small retailers and portable milling operations – paying for membership to a softwood grading agency is not practical for Catskill lumber producers,” states ...
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