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A New Angle on Thinning


By Courtney Lowery, 1-10-06

Jim Robbins has a nice piece in today's New York Times detailing the business end of forest thinning. Robbins looks at a new wave of thinning and what it could mean in the forest products industry, including a profile of Missoula writer and now entrepreneur Peter Stark. Stark's business, North Slope Sustainable Wood LLC, turns little trees into beautiful hardwood floors and is perhaps at the leading edge of a new trend. Stark tells Robbins: "I'm a tree hugger. If we can take the small trees and leave the big ones, the loggers and environmentalists are both happy."



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