Lumber Mill Stays Afloat by Thinking Outside the Country ; Timber Restrictions Lead Company to Lithuania
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PRINEVILLE, Ore. - Ochoco Lumber President Bruce Daucsavage used to walk every day through the mill, chatting with workers turning ponderosa pine logs that mostly came from the Ochoco National Forest into stock for doors and windows.
Now, the mill outside Daucsavage's window is gone, sold for scrap, and he spends his days on the telephone, talking to industrial lumber suppliers in Russia, Ochoco Lumber's mill in Lithuania, and customers on the East Coast and Japan.See the full content of this document
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Lumber Mill Stays Afloat by Thinking Outside the Country ; Timber Restrictions Lead Company to Lithuania
"Too many restrictions were placed on harvesting timber. It was coming to an end," Daucsavage said of the post-World War II logging era on national forests that once fed five mills in Prineville. "We decided as a company to diversify geographically."
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