Utah company plans to open sawmill in Wyo.

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ENCAMPMENT, Wyo. (AP) -- A Utah company plans to operate a sawmill in Encampment to process beetle-killed trees from the Medicine Bow National Forest.

The Rawlins Daily Times reports Thompson Logging expects to employ 15 to 18 people by mid-April at the sawmill.

Company president Terry Thompson says the company expects to be able to operate for years in the area because of the massive amount of beetle-killed timber.

Thompson Logging is leasing the sawmill from the Thompson is based out of Kamas, Utah. It makes graded dimensional lumber and custom-milled timber as well as landscaping mulches and animal bedding. (Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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