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Montana log home builders float over sinking market

Editor’s note: Following is part one of a two-part series looking at the local log home manufacturing industry. This article looks at the challenges the local industry has had. Part 2 looks at their markets and local economic impacts.

Every week or so, another set of statistics indicate a burst in the home construction bubble, or jobs lost in the timber-products industry.

So the manufactured log home sector, located economically at the meeting point of these two major industries, should be really down in the dumps, right? Wrong.

by JOEL GALLOB – Ravalli Republic

Full Story: http://www.ravallirepublic.com/articles/2007/06/21/news/news01.txt

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Market niche builds strong log home sales

by JOEL GALLOB – Ravalli Republic

Editor’s note: Following is the second part of a two-part series looking at the local log home manufacturing industry. Part one on Thursday looked at the challenges facing the local industry. This part looks at their wide-ranging markets and local economic impacts.

The log home industry in the Bitterroot Valley has weathered a lot of changes even as the rest of the U.S. timber industry continues to shed jobs and the construction industry has been in a slump.

Full Story:
http://www.ravallirepublic.com/articles/2007/06/22/news/news04.txt

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