Wood industry closures mean ripple effects for workers, tax base, forest management
The pending closures of Missoula County’s two largest wood products employers, announced separately this month, will have effects beyond the local economy, limiting options for landowners and other mills throughout the region and making forest management projects more expensive, according to local and industry officials.
“It’s not just the facilities and jobs that are impacted at those facilities,” said Todd Morgan, director of the University of Montana’s Forest Industry Research Program. “It’s going to have a bigger impact on the landscape, on forests, on communities in and around the forest and certainly on the economies of those communities.”
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