Word: chip
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According to the letter, there are currently 140 chip mills in the United States, more than 100 of which were constructed in the last decade...
...Because of the nature of chip mills, you do a lot of clear-cutting," Ellenbogen said...
...Chip mills are able to use smaller or misshapen trees that are unsuitable for furniture or other forest products, providing a market for previously unmarketable trees...
...There's been an explosion of chip mill operations in the South in the last couple of decades," DellaSala said...
...according to Cathy A. Dunn, vice president of corporate communications for Willamette Industries, forest products companies that own the chip mills do not encourage any specific type of logging. Private landowners harvest the timber and then sell it to the chip mill for processing, she said. Willamette owns 10 chip mills...