After shuttering South Dakota sawmill Neiman spends another $15 million in blue Colorado

In 2018 after the Trump Organization gutted the National Environmental Policy Act then was thrown from the White House Hulett, Wyoming-based Neiman Enterprises closed their Hill City, South Dakota sawmill and is threatening to shutter another in Spearditch. 

So, Neiman wants to log 20 million board feet of ponderosa pine per year in Colorado for the next 20 years. Knot-free old growth ponderosa pine is coveted by door and window manufacturers like Pella, Marvin and Andersen. But, there are far, far better life choices than working in a sawmill for ten years let alone living in states like Wyoming and South Dakota where workers are commodities so Neiman bought mills in blue states Colorado and Oregon that expanded Medicaid. 

Neiman purchased Montrose Forest Products in 2012.

The process generates enough byproducts, like sawdust, wood chips, shavings, bark and dry wood, to fill up to 15 trucks per day, according to General Manager Mike Kusar. “It shows a lot about (plant owner Neiman family’s) commitment to being in Montrose, and making a sawmill facility work in an area that doesn’t have a lot of sawmills left,” Kusar said. [Montrose Forest Products $15 million investment is a win for the company and environment]

An area couple recently motored through Montrose.