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It closes May 4th....
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Re: no more lumber mill
Thu, March 5, 2009 - 10:50 PMWow. Wonder how much that will affect the local economy. Hard to imagine those logs not being there.
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Fri, March 6, 2009 - 12:17 PMfamily camp will be so dark.....without that mill there they are really gonna need us every yr....cause other than those logs and our festy there aint shit going in or out of there
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Fri, March 6, 2009 - 1:25 PMI'm not sure if it will mean lights out altogether. According to the Record Searchlight article, the small log mill will be closed on May 4th but the large log and biomass facilities will remain open. I'm not sure if all three of these functions were done at the same location or not...
Redding Record Searchlight
SPI to shutter Quincy small-log mill; 150 jobs cut
By David Benda (Contact)
Originally published 09:44 a.m., March 3, 2009
Updated 09:44 a.m., March 3, 2009
QUINCY -- Blaming environmental litigation and market conditions, Sierra Pacific Industries will close its small-log sawmill in Quincy on May 4.
The nation’s second-largest timber producer made the announcement late Monday. About 150 employees will be laid off as a result of the closure. Approximately 160 workers will remain employed at Sierra Pacific’s large-log facility and biomass electrical generation plant in Quincy.
“We are deeply saddened over this announcement, as many hard-working, dedicated employees who have been with the company for a long time will be unemployed,” area manager Matt Taborski said in a statement.
The Quincy mills rely heavily on the sale of national forest timber for their raw material, according to Sierra Pacific. The timber company constructed the small-log mill when it appeared the Quincy Library Forest Recovery Act would be approved by Congress.
The Quincy Library Act passed in 1998, but lawsuits have brought the forest thinning projects to a virtual halt, forcing Sierra Pacific Industries to haul logs over long distances to supply the Quincy mill, company spokesman Mark Pawlicki said. Pawlicki added that today’s weak lumber market will not support the additional cost of these long-distance hauls.
In January, Sierra Pacific cut the work week at its mills in Burney, Quincy and Sonora to 32 hours due to the slumping housing market. The three mills employ a combined 670 people.
Sierra Pacific also eliminated the third shift at its Anderson sawmill in January, a move that eliminated 24 jobs.
The Western Wood Products Association estimates U.S. lumber demand this year will fall to 35 billion board feet, lowest since 1982.
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Fri, March 6, 2009 - 3:04 PMHow funny that the first 3 words of the article are "Blaming environmental litigation..."
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Mon, March 9, 2009 - 9:54 PMhardy-fuckin-ha... Just like PacLumber used to blame their own mismanagement on "environmentalists". -
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Wed, March 11, 2009 - 1:54 PMThose damn environmentalists!! Tying the hands up industry again!! They just want to control our lives!!!
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Wed, March 11, 2009 - 9:08 PMI heard there are 2 mills, and the one thats closing isnt necc. the one we see so starkly at HSMF....not sure tho. -
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Thu, March 12, 2009 - 6:27 PMHere are some recent articles from the Plumas County News:
Mill workers consider their options
The move by Sierra Pacific Industries to close its small-log mill in Quincy is a major blow to this multi-generational logging town. The Sierra Pacific sawmill has long been the town’s single largest nongovernmental employer. Many mill workers who will be laid off in May aren’t sure at this point what they’ll do for work.
www.plumasnews.com/news_story.edi
Mill shutdown: Supply or demand?
Delaine Fragnoli
Managing Editor
3/11/2009
When Sierra Pacific Industries announced last week that it was closing its small-log mill in Quincy, it put most of the blame squarely on environmental groups whose litigation has tied up Quincy Library Group projects. The company said it had been counting on the small logs created by the QLG tree-thinning work to supply the mill.
www.plumasnews.com/news_story.edi
Collins Pine says “no” to layoff rumors
By M. Kate West
Chester Editor
3/12/2009
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Thu, March 12, 2009 - 11:04 PMSo this still means SP is closing down & what happens in Chester as nothing to do w/ Quincy.
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Fri, March 20, 2009 - 10:31 AMHaving worked directly on the environmental analysis for Quincy Library Group projects, I'd have to say this is close to a fair assessment even though it sounds like timber industry hype. Tactics of many of the chief litigators seemed to look principally at stopping projects, even those with well-crafted mitigation measures and diameter limits, a wholly different beast than the PL search-and-destroy old growth to pay off the junk bonds approach. The consequences? The Moonlight Fire in 2007, just north of Quincy, burned up over 20 spotted owl territories. Whether the fuels reduction work that was proposed for that area would have completely stopped the fire is debatable, but I do think if the project had been implemented, that a lot less big timber would have been lost. Not to mention the carbon footprint of burning 65,000 acres, most of it complete mortality, in a matter of days.
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Sat, May 16, 2009 - 7:02 PMIt's actually not funny at all...the Quincy Library Group is made up of Mill wrights, environmentalists, U.S. Forest Service employees and Quincy locals who have been fighting against environmental fundamentalists for many many years. It's really been a long and tedious process because of the fact that the Quincy Library Group is very egalitarian and allows all of its members to come to a consensus before pursuing action...which takes time. I'm totally down with environmentalism, and think it is something that needs to be embraced more in this country...but any group can become too thwarted to see that there is such thing as middle ground.
Just some info from a girl who was raised in Quincy and who's dad is a member in the QLG... -
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Sat, May 30, 2009 - 4:09 PMthat lumber mill smelled kinda poopy....
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Thu, June 4, 2009 - 9:32 PMSorrell - welcome to the group & thanks for a local's perspective. -
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Mon, June 8, 2009 - 10:13 AMIndeed. Welcome Sorrell! Thanks for being a part of a town that's brought so many of us alot of joy.
It's a hot button situation. You have to way livelihoods and abuse of the environment. Like anything else, the best answer lies in the middle ground. I'm not as educated on the logging in the Quincy area as I might like to be. The problem is that some of the people speaking out against it aren't either. People see the corruption, clear cutting, and landslides in OR and wig out. It's understandable to be upset about that stuff, but if the logging in the Quincy area is thoughtful and well planned. It would seem their efforts could be better spent elsewhere.
It's easy to get into the mindset that logging is just plain bad with the abuses that are out there. The truth of the matter is we still need wood, and if we can be more conscious of not depleting the forest and tearing down hillsides, we'll all benefit.
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Thu, November 5, 2009 - 1:28 PMAbsolutely...logging in general sounds bad. But it's a reality for Quincy, and it's economy. It's been a struggle for the QLG to find that middle ground with the environmental groups...but with education, and compromise...that middle ground can be found!
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