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Survey gauges challenges to wood industry

June 10, 2009 /

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The struggling wood industry of western Wyoming and southeastern Idaho is operating at a small fraction of its capacity and is limited by the consistency and scale of timber sales on U.S. Forest Service lands, according to the results of a recent survey.

The Bridger-Teton and Shoshone national forests in Wyoming and the Caribou-Targhee National Forest in Idaho distributed the questionnaire to businesses such as loggers, sawmills and firewood vendors.

The survey garnered 23 responses from businesses in counties surrounding the forests and 22 responses from non-local businesses that use wood from the three forests. The results are intended to be a resource for a new regional "woody biomass working group," forest officials said.

By MATT JOYCE

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