Posted on 10/24/2019 4:29:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Iron Wood Group LLC is gearing up to produce veneer for the plywood industry at a refurbished mill southwest of Dolores.
CEO Jeff Bunnell was granted a high-impact permit for the business by Montezuma County commissioners. The sawmill property on Road T was also rezoned from commercial to heavy industrial.
Iron Wood will employ 20 to 30 workers and is currently hiring staff, Bunnell said. Applications may be picked up at the Cortez Workforce Center.
A logging crew is working in the San Juan National Forest in the Chicken Creek area and near Bayfield.
The mill will produce veneer sheets created by peeling logs on a lathe.
The sheets will be trucked to western U.S. factories where they are pressed together to make plywood or used for other products requiring veneer.
(Excerpt) Read more at durangoherald.com ...
There used to be several veneer mills and 3 or 4 plywood mills in Humboldt county until the plywood industry could not compete with imports...
Got one in Siskiyou Co.
Before Clinton saved the county economy there were over 50
lumber mills.
It’s hard to haul through ‘roadless’ forests.
Colorado didn’t have many lumber mills until about ten years ago, after the pine beetles killed millions of trees. At first governments resisted lumber mills who wanted to come in and harvest the dead trees, but eventually they saw reason and decided to have a lumber industry harvest them rather than have them sit there dead until they caught on fire. (Ahem California)
Odd to see Delores in the news. I have family there. It exists in the Colorado side of the “Four Corners” near Cortez. If you ever wanted to live in a place where nobody will find you, this is a good one.
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