Lumber prices slipping
After a spike earlier in the year, lumber prices are dropping.
According to Madison's Canadian Lumber Reporter the benchmark random length spruce-pine-fir two-by-four was pegged at $270 US.
That's down $22 from last month, but still up $117 from a year ago.
Lumber is an important economic commodity in north-central B.C.
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New federal political appointment
Cariboo-Prince George Conservative MP Dick Harris has been named to the federal government's standing committee on natural resources.
Prior to this appointment, Harris served on the international trade committee and still serves as the Conservative's national forest caucus chair.
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