In the New Timber Industry, Small is Better

Forget nanotechnology, biomedical devices or avionics, the next hot investment may just be found in the woodlots, forests and construction trash bins of the West, and particularly New Mexico.

In San Miquel County, New Mexico, for example, the legislature allocated $500,000 to a Regional Sustainable Wood Business Park. The park, in the former Medite site in Las Vegas, will be a cluster of companies that will mine the area’s small diameter lumber, which is both too small to use in building and a potential fire-storm waiting to happen in our national forests.

By Emily Esterson

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