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Study Shows Sawbuck Buyers Get 0.39% Lower Mortgage Rate WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Online real estate broker Sawbuck Realty today launched its real estate e-commerce service in Chicago, its fourth new market this year. Chicagoland homebuyers now can use Sawbuck to search for homes for sale and research recent sales, including final sales price and pictures. Sawbuck simplifies the home buying and selling process, without asking customers to compromise on either service or...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Local news sources reported Tuesday that agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service searched the Tennessee manufacturing facility of Gibson Guitars as part of an investigation under the Lacey Act into harvested wood from Madagascar. This search represents the first use of a landmark 2008 amendment to the Lacey Act prohibiting trade in illegally sourced wood products. The Lacey Act is a 100-year-old statute that restricts traffic in illegally...

Landmark reforms were aimed at halting deforestation, illegal wood products WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Sierra Club and the United Steelworkers (USW) today voiced concerns over a decision by regulators to grant special exemptions for pulp and paper from the Lacey Act reforms of 2008. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080131/DC12982LOGO) These landmark reforms aim to protect the world's forests and communities by halting the import and sale of...

BRANSON, MO, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Hollund Industrial Marine, Inc. (Pink Sheets: HIMR) (www.HollundIndustrial.com) today announced that the company recently began a series of information meetings with members of the financial community in Chicago. At the presentation, Michael Lacy, CEO of Hollund Industrial Marine described the company's business focus and market opportunities to a group of financial managers and investors. "Today there are an estimated 300 million trees that are...

Study Shows Sawbuck Buyers Get 0.49% Lower Mortgage Rate WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Online real estate broker Sawbuck Realty (www.sawbuck.com) today launched its real estate e-commerce service in San Diego. Homebuyers now can use Sawbuck to search for homes for sale and recent sales throughout Southern California - all the way from Lancaster down to Chula Vista. Sawbuck simplifies the home buying and selling process, without asking customers to compromise on either service or cost....

DORCHESTER, England, October 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Newlands Training, Devon & Dorset's leading provider in land based training, is experiencing a sharp rise in bookings and enquiries for its range of chainsaw qualifications and certificates ( http://www.newlandstraining.com/chainsaw/ ) and it's all down to the economic downturn. "A lot of people who have lost their jobs in the recession are looking for alternative careers and are using their redundancy pay to fund training...

BRANSON, MO, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Hollund Industrial Marine, Inc. (Pink Sheets: HIMR) (www.HollundIndustrial.com) today announced that it has completed a market review with the intention to focus its TigerLynk business. In line with the market review, the Company today announced that it will now focus primarily on commercial underwater logging, and expand its business model to include forest resource and operations management, targeting dam reservoirs in tropical regions of the...

Additional HTS Headings Require Plant Product Declaration Form at Border WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It has been five months since the official beginning of the declaration requirement phase-in for plant and plant products under the amended US Lacey Act. USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) now requires importers of certain wood products including logs and veneer to declare the value, volume, scientific name, and country of harvest origin of the...

Study Shows Sawbuck Buyers Get .325% Lower Mortgage Rate WASHINGTON, Aug. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Online real estate broker Sawbuck Realty (www.sawbuck.com) today launched its real estate e-commerce service in Dallas. Last month, Sawbuck announced $2 million in financing, led by Dallas-based A. H. Belo Corporation, to continue its national expansion and enhance its website. With today's announcement, consumers now can use Sawbuck to search for homes for sale and recent sales throughout the...

Canadian logging companies routinely violate laws by hiring foreign loggers to work in Maine and discouraging local ones from applying, a state official says. In a letter to the U.S. Office of Foreign Labor Certification last week, Maine Labor Commissioner Sheila Fortman said the violations are pervasive and industry-wide, the Bangor Daily News reported. She asked the federal government to investigate the Canadian companies' use of H-2A waivers that allow the hiring of foreign workers as...