ELGIN, Oregon— Boise Cascade avoided an all-employee layoff at the Elgin Plywood mill after resolving a wood chip scare earlier this month. The company sent out public notice of an impending mill-wide layoff at the Elgin plant Wednesday, Aug. 16, through a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification. The letter forecasted the layoff to be long term, starting on or before Oct. 14, but didn’t include any information on why the mill’s operations were to be suspended. “The reason for the curtailment was that we couldn’t really find a place to put our wood chips,” Lisa Tschampl said, which the company usually sells to pulp and paper mills in the Pacific Northwest. After a handful of these mills were shut down earlier this year, Elgin Plywood faced a wood chip pileup. …However, Boise Cascade was able to find an outlet for the wood chips, and there should not be any layoffs in October.