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Special Report - Special Report - December 20, 2012
Timber industry assisted by the rallying housing market


The wood products market is showing signs of recovery in the coming year, due in part to an uptick in new home construction in the second half of 2012.

Shawn Church, editor of Eugene, Ore.-based Random Lengths, a publication that tracks lumber prices, says 34 percent of its readers expect between 800,000 and 900,000 housing starts nationally in 2013, according to a survey conducted earlier this year. Twenty-two percent of survey respondents believe that number will be even higher,...


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