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West Fraser mainly sells Western spruce-pine-fir and Southern yellow pine lumber. It sells almost all of its spruce-pine-fir in the US while exporting a portion of its Southern yellow pine.

Niquidet said that, recently, U.S. buyers were paying US$547 for 1,000 board feet of spruce, pine and fir two-by-fours, compared with just over US$400 for southern yellow pine two-by-fours.

Deer don’t eat balsam fir but they feast upon white pine, white cedar, and other desirable trees. In northeast Minnesota, budworm outbreaks occur on a 30-to-60-year cycle.

West Fraser mainly sells Western spruce-pine-fir and Southern yellow pine lumber. It sells almost all of its spruce-pine-fir in the US while exporting a portion of its Southern yellow pine.

The Rs 8-crore facility, developed by the forest department, features 25 cottages constructed with imported SPF (spruce-pine-fir) wood, including 10 premium and 15 deluxe accommodations.