Reply #7: The list of companies in the action...

[jmowreader]

Two abbreviations you may find handy:

SPF - Spruce/Pine/Fir. This lumber is what all the hubbub is about.
It is lumber from one of eight species of trees: Red Spruce, Black Spruce, White Spruce, Engelmann Spruce, Jack Pine, Lodgepole Pine, Balsam Fir, and Alpine Fir Most of it comes from Canada, but its range extends to about the California-Oregon state line. This is a soft timber--you can press your fingernail into it--with good fiber strength. It's mostly white in color.

SYP - Southern Yellow Pine. It comes from four species: Loblolly Pine, Longleaf Pine, Shortleaf Pine, and Slash Pine. This wood is, as its name suggests, yellow in color. It has excellent fiber strength and it's hard as a rock--the slow-growth rings (the dark ones) are harder than walnut, which is very hard. These species only grow in an area bounded by Texas on the West and Virginia to the North, all the way to the eastern and southern shores.

Amelia Lumber Co, Amelia, Virginia
Amelia Lumber makes borate-treated lumber. This is a very insect-resistant product used primarily as framing lumber and for windowframes because the borate leaches out of the lumber if it gets wet. In the US, borate-treatment is applied primarily to two species groups: Southern Yellow Pine and Radiata Pine.

A.V. Littrell Lumber Mill, Tishomingo, Mississippi
A.V. Littrell is a hardwood mill. Its primary products are oak and poplar lumber, but they make some pine.

Ayres & Baker Pole & Post Inc., Mountain View, Wyoming
These guys make fenceposts and telephone poles. They also produce pressure-treated lumber; in the western United States, that's all coastal Douglas fir.

Bean Lumber Co, Inc., Glenwood, Arkansas
Bean Lumber Co. is a southern yellow pine plant. They provide raw and pressure-treated lumber products.

Brittain Lumber Company, Statesville, North Carolina
Brittain Lumber makes pressure-treated Southern Yellow Pine decking.

Busy B Cedar Inc., Priest River, Idaho
As its name suggests, this is a cedar mill. They specialize in fencing.

Caffall Brothers Forest Products, Portland, Oregon
Caffall Brothers makes studs--from Douglas Fir lumber. These are better than SPF studs because they're stronger.

Cedar Creek Horselogging & Milling Inc., Nevada City, California
This is primarily a woodworking shop, but they also sell lumber--hardwood lumber. Species they handle include California Black Oak, Pacific Madrone, Alder, Tanoak, Aromatic Cedar, Ash, Bigleaf Maple, Red Oak, Ponderosa Pine, Sugar Pine, Redwood, Walnut and Douglas Fir.

Cold Stream Lumber Co., West Enfield, Maine
This WAS a softwood mill. On April 30, 2006, its sawmill facility burned to the ground.

Dejarnette Lumber Company, Milford, Virginia
Dejamette makes hardwood dimensional stock and hardwood flooring.

J.D. Lumber Inc., Priest River, Idaho
This appears to be a sawmill. Their website doesn't say what they make, but I've been to Priest River...these guys are cutting spruce because that's what's there.

Lamell Lumber Corp, Essex Junction, Vermont
This is an SPF mill.

Lampe & Malphrus Co., Smithfield, North Carolina
SYP mill producing mostly inch-thick stock. Also produces pattern stock for flooring.

Lewis County Forest Products, Winlock, Washington
This is a Douglas Fir stud mill with something you just don't find in the lumber industry: a very cute website. http://www.titanstuds.com/home.html. It owns Mason County Forest Products.

Littrell Lumber Mill, Decatur, Alabama
Littrell cuts SYP and hardwood.

Mason County Forest Products, Shelton, Washington
Mason County Forest Products is part of Lewis County Forest Products. They make Hem-Fir (hemlock and douglas fir) studs.

North End Timber Products, Olney, Montana
This is an SPF mill.

Oakville Forest Products, Oakville, Washington
They have two products: douglas fir studs, and wood chips for paper mills.

Patenaude Lumber Co. Inc., Henniker, New Hampshire
Patenaude mills white pine, a part of the SPF group.

Ponderay Valley Fibre, Usk, Washington
They take all northern softwoods but seem to prefer douglas fir.

Portac, Inc., Tacoma, Washington
Probably another douglas fir mill

Precision Pine & Timber Inc., Heber, Arizona
No matter what the name of this company says, they don't do pine. It's a hardwood mill that produces dimensional stock and flooring.

Pukall Lumber Co., Arbor Vitae, Wisconsin
Pukall (wouldn't you have hated to be one of these guys' kids?) makes SPF, red pine and fir lumber.

Rosboro Lumber Co., Springfield, Oregon
Rosboro makes hem-fir studs, plywood and engineered lumber.

RSG Forest Products, Kalama, Washington
Another hem-fir mill.

Tricon Timber LLC, St. Regis, Montana
Tricon makes two things: nine-foot studs and wooden posts.

Trinity River Lumber Co., Weaverville, California
No information is available

Troy Lumber Co., Troy, North Carolina
They make SYP flooring and scaffold planks.

Sauvola's Sawmill, Northport, Washington
Makes white pine pattern stock

Stoddard Lumber Co. Inc., St. Anthony, Idaho
Stoddard Lumber specializes in log cabins.

Zosel Lumber Co., Oroville, Washington
No information is available

I only count 15 mills that can be considered affected by the Canadian lumber situation...you'd have to be reaching REALLY far to say Stoddard's log cabin business is affected by Canfor's stud operation.