by Working Forest | Dec 8, 2015 | Archives
B.C. forest products exports grew in the first 10 months of the year, compared to sales year-to-date up to October 2014. Statistics Canada reports that solid wood product sales were up three per cent and pulp and paper products were up 2.3 per cent. The only major...
by Working Forest | Dec 8, 2015 | Archives
WorkSafeBC has handed out nearly double the amount of fines for industry safety infractions this year and 2014 over the previous two years, part of a new approach to use penalties as deterrents. In 2014, 433 penalties were issued totalling $6 million. As of last week,...
by Working Forest | Dec 8, 2015 | Archives
A new student residence under construction on the University of British Columbia campus will be one of the tallest wood buildings in the world. UBC says the 18-storey structure builds on the university’s commitment to sustainability and innovation. The eco-friendly...
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
A project more than seven years in the making took a major step forward Wednesday, as the board of the Kootenai Forest Stakeholders Coalition adopted forest management guidelines they hope will serve as a model for collaborative land management practices on the...
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
Conservationists who want the government to take action on climate change by protecting British Columbia’s old-growth forests say they’ve measured a near-record-size red cedar in the central Walbran Valley. The Ancient Forest Alliance said the tree that it...
by Working Forest | Dec 7, 2015 | Archives
What a great day to celebrate history! Sixty years ago, the Ketchum brothers started West Fraser Mills. On Nov. 28, 1955, the temperature in Quesnel was a cloudy and foggy -1 C. Chetwynd, known then as Little Prairie, was just starting to set down its roots....
