Higher wood prices welcome Frances
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Though Hurricane Frances is still days away from potential landfall in the southeastern United States, those without window shutters are busy boarding up their houses with plywood -- if they can find any.
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Hurricane Frances may have almost doubled the estimated recovery cost for Florida as relief officials gear up to deal with
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Weyerhaeuser Co.'s WY.N  third-quarter profit rose on higher prices for lumber and a  large gain from the sale of timber lands in Georgia, the   company said on Friday.
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MIAMI As the hurricane called Frances lumbered across Florida, economic analysts estimated the costs of the damage inflicted by the sprawling storm and a previous hurricane three weeks ago, designated Charley, could run to $40 billion.
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LONDON (CBS.MW) -- Hurricane Frances, the second hurricane to hit Florida in a month, will cost insurers between $3 billion and $10 billion, according to the most recent estimates from the industry&#39;s leading catastrophe modeling firms.
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By Hyatt, Abraham  CAVE JUNCTION - It sounded like an unbelievable amount of money: more than $171 million worth of salvage lumber, enough to build as many as 17,000 homes, waiting to be logged in forests blackened by 2002's famed Biscuit Fire.
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Throughout the night, Hurricane Frances was lumbering by and Adam Nemec's stomach was churning. The winds howled and trees groaned before snapping outside the four-bedroom ranch-style house he bought two years ago.
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Bob Lemos of Lemos Farm on Highway 92 near Half Moon Bay is optimistic about the Christmas tree season. He started selling trees last weekend, he said.
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KING COUNTY - A nasty surprise for fishermen and apple growers. The World Trade Organization says there will be tariffs on those products and heavy machinery from the United States.
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Tree rustlers are striking across the country, probably prompted by the rise in timber value and the increase in worldwide demand for American hardwood.
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By Charles Sheehan, Chicago Tribune  Jan. 31--Chicago-area officials say the invasion of the emerald ash borer is threatening to chew up suburban forestry budgets, as well as trees.
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Hurricane Frances lumbered all the way across the Florida peninsula Sunday, dumping more rain over a much larger area than last month&#39;s Hurricane
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Christmas plant has become multimillion-dollar industry in one of the most picturesque tourist spots.
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By NO BYLINE  A TASKFORCE is to be set up to find ways of increasing the supply of wood to make biomass energy. Mike Russell, the environment minister, announced the move yesterday on a visit to E.ON's soon-to- open GBP 90 million plant in Lockerbie.  (c) 2007 Scotsman, The.
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Frances could regain hurricane strength by the time it makes landfall Monday evening on the panhandle of northwest Florida, forecasters say.
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Hurricane Frances could cause between $2bn and $10bn in insured losses in the US, experts predict as the storm pummels Florida.
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Firewood sales &#151; and prices &#151; are rising in New England and parts of the West this winter, fueled by increasingly expensive oil and kerosene.