Public concerns about the use of herbicides in Nova Scotia’s forests appear to be growing, though the number of hectares approved for spraying in 2016 is on par with previous years. An online petition asking the province to retract its approvals for herbicide spraying this year garnered more than 3,200 signatures. Most of the forestry companies…
Frank Dottori knows he’s sticking his neck out a bit in picking up an idled and bankrupt Hornepayne lumber mill. With so much uncertainty looming this fall over the outcome of the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber talks, it may be a headscratcher as to why the semi-retired founder of Tembec went out and bought another lumber…
Even small children know trees are living beings, says Peter Wohlleben, despite the fact you can burn them up in a cozy log fire. An amiable forester and the author ofThe Hidden Life of Trees, a bestseller in his native Germany—a country where forests are sunk deeply into the cultural DNA (think Grimms’ fairy tales)—Wohlleben…
Canada and the United States are on the brink of yet another softwood lumber war, fuelled by a drastic jump in B.C. lumber exports to the U.S. and growing anti-trade sentiment. American sawmillers say they are ready to fire the first shot in what would be the fifth lumber trade war since the 1980s, if…
THE PAS — Several potential buyers are scoping out Tolko Industries. No one — from the company, the mayor of The Pas or Growth, Enterprise and Trade Minister Cliff Cullen — would identify those potential buyers Monday. Tolko said it has received preliminary inquiries from several entities for its facility in The Pas. Jim Baskerville,…
Dive Brief: The National Association of Home Builders reported that representatives from the U.S. homebuilding industry have wrapped up talks with public and private interests in Chile around the possibility of importing more softwood and other lumber products from the country. The two sides discussed policy issues and potential barriers to Chile raising its current…
After weeks of layoffs and business closures in the north, The Pas and Churchill got some good news Monday. Talk of partnership dominated meetings in The Pas Monday as union officials, mayors, business owners, First Nation leaders and provincial cabinet ministers discussed how to avoid a job loss crisis and the looming closure of the local Tolko paper…
He’s the $300,000 bird, a fluffy ball of feathers that represents a last faint hope for his species. His theoretical value represents the approximate annual budget of a provincial captive-breeding program for endangered northern spotted owls — one of Canada’s most endangered species — in north Langley that successfully produced just a single newborn this year….
The College of New Caledonia in Prince George, B.C., and the regional forest industry in central British Columbia have partnered to establish a long-term industrial research chair in forest health. The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) has announced a $1 million grant for CNC, to fund the position for five years. The $1 million will be…
Faced with increasing losses of millions of trees being killed by the dramatic spread of the mountain pine beetle, Jasper National Park has come up with a new plan to halt the beetle’s infestation. A new management plan was released July 22 after a tripling of the beetle population in the park over the past two years….