The Journal staff James C. Wood, a well-known attorney, was found dead Thursday night at his home. A medical examiner's report said Wood, 54, of the 3300 block of N. Bremen St., was found dead by a business associate in his home....
James C. Wood Maverick lawyer James C. Wood was found dead Thursday night at his home. A medical examiner's report said Wood, 54, of the 3300 block of North Bremen Street, was discovered dead by a business associate. The official cause of death was...
David W. Green (*) Kent A. McDonald (*) ABSTRACT A decline and mortality problem is affecting yellow-cedar trees on more than a half-million acres in southeast Alaska. Because of the high decay resistance of yellow-cedar, dead snags may remain...
Like a wildfire burning off the dead wood, the current ad downturn will eliminate weaker players and opportunists in business-to-business publishing, say some industry veterans. ``We had several years of growth and good times that led to some fattening and inefficiencies, and now we're...
Puzzled about something in our area? "Did You Ever Wonder?" is here to help. Send questions to the address at the end of this column. Q: Who carved the clever wood sculptures from the tree stumps along the creek behind the El Pomar sports fields? - Hovenga, Colorado...
The "outdoor wood boilers" use wood as an alternate and renewable energy source to achieve environmentally conscious heat transfer. The outdoor wood furnace is usually a unit comprised of a wood burning firebox surrounded by a water jacket and enclosed in an insulated, weather-resistant enclosure. This article focuses on these...
Around the state and across the country, people are turning to wood pellet stoves and furnaces for comfortable home heating. Wood pellets are made of wood left over from sawmills, wood products manufacturing and construction. This wood has traditionally been land filled, but with modern palletizing techniques it is recycled...
Indoors or out, wood is affected by moisture. Wood swells when it gets wet and shrinks as it dries, whether the moisture is liquid water or water vapor in the form of high humidity. However, wood coated with the proper finishes will be affected less than wood left unfinished. This...
Woodlife Creocoat Black Wood Preservative is a new black-colored, EPA-registered wood preservative and insecticide that protects exterior wood against termites, rot and decay. An environmentally safe, effective substitute for Creosote, Creocoat imparts a solid black finish to wood. Creocoat prevents attack from termites,...
If members of your community have seen one of the sensationalized media reports on wood playground structures, they may have asked you about the safety of treated wood. Is there anything to fear? Are children at risk? The answer is no, but how do you best respond to such inquiries?...
Abstract The USDA Forest Service Forest Products Laboratory has patented a technology that incorporates fiberglass-reinforced wood into the structure of wood doors and other wood building products. The process of reinforcing wood doors with epoxy and fiber-glass increases the strength and durability of...
For more information, phone (866) 822-2297 Register Now The Centre for Advanced Wood Processing at the University of British Columbia and Wood & Wood Products are cosponsoring a full-day Wood Finishing Seminar -- with tabletops -- on Wednesday, August 21, at the Marriott Marquis in downtown Atlanta. ...
This study describes the popularity of woodstoves used for heating people's houses. Today, many people find that wood is still a superior way to heat their homes. When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued woodstove standards, heating with wood has become even cleaner, safer, and more efficient than before. Wood...
Wisconsin is fortunate to have a thriving wood-based products industry. Both sawmill and wood products companies find that the abundance of timber makes Wisconsin a good place to do business. However, many of these companies are unaware that wood is also a proven renewable energy resource. The wood waste that...
The article describes about residential construction that accounts for more than 50 percent of the wood consumed in the United States. Nearly everyone in the building industry is concerned with deteriorating lumber quality, increasing prices, and devastation of old-growth forests. The overarching goal of the Wood Reduction Clearinghouse (ed. note:...
Before tossing those aromatic wood chips on the barbecue, using the fireplace to celebrate that first brisk fall day or lighting a campfire in the great out-of-doors, you might want to consider this: Wood smoke can literally take your breath away. "As many as 30,000 lives are lost every...
Hanley Wood, LLC announced today the departure of Jeff Meyers, President, and Lorry Lynn, COO, from Hanley Wood Market Intelligence (formerly the Meyers Group.) Michael Wood, CEO of Hanley Wood, stated, "Although a leadership change like this is never easy, we will make it work. Hanley Wood Market Intelligence...
Efforts to produce a woodpecker-proof wood product have not been successful or economically feasible. Experience and research have indicated that the only realistic way to deal with the problem is to develop techniques or devices which will discourage woodpeckers from attacking wood and plywood in the first place. Woodpeckers may...
It has not been determined when or if wood dust will be debated, but wood-workers should not "worry at this point" about wood dust exposure limits being considered, according to Julia Pesak, a spokesman for OSHA, who is coordinating the meetings.
WHEN Sir Ian Wood comes back from his skiing holiday in the French Alps in January he will return to his old desk in his second- floor office at Wood Group's head office in Aberdeen. Wood will still be next door to his colleague Allister Langlands, but, as...
