A rebound in the US housing market, rising housing starts, and increased foreign demand brought framing lumber prices to an eight-year high last week of $423 per 1,000 board feet. That’s the highest price for the lumber used in the … read more >

From the WSJ article today “Logging Towns Are on a Roll: Housing Recovery Spurs Lumber Demand, Boosting Regions Such as Eugene, Ore.”: Rising lumber demand stoked by the housing recovery is reinvigorating U.S. timber towns, creating jobs from the sawmill … read more >