When the linguists Martin Meissner and Stuart Philpott first started visiting sawmills in British Columbia in the 1970s, they thought they’d find workers communicating without speaking, probably with some simple gestures that contained technical information. There was a long history of such communication in the face of extreme noise: For centuries, American mill workers had…
Sawmills across Northern Ontario continue to be busy, feeding an increasingly hungry U.S. housing market. Statistics Canada reports that mills cranked out 6 per cent more lumber in March than they did a year earlier. That includes the five sawmills in northern Ontario run by Eacom. Eacom spokesperson Christine Leduc says this is a big change…
Women in Forestry is the first in a series of hands-on, one-day workshops for women with an interest in woodland management and will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 4. The workshop is funded by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and organized by the Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute. Sessions will include…
The planting of the billionth tree in the Prince George Natural Resource District was celebrated Thursday at the Central British Columbia Railway and Forestry Museum. That was where dignitaries planted a spruce tree to mark the milestone. The number dates from when planting began in 1959 and it wasn’t the only large figure cited. “Silviculture…
The RICO suit alleges Greenpeace is a ‘fraud’ that has ‘duped’ donors. All too often, corporations, concerned about the potential damage to their bottom lines from any “controversy,” kowtow to media-savvy radical environmentalists. Thus the lawsuit brought three years ago by Montreal-based Resolute Forest Products against Greenpeace for “defamation, malicious falsehood and intentional interference with…
Upper Clearwater residents might disagree about the Upper Clearwater Hall but they seem to be more in agreement about their unhappiness with Canfor’s plans to log in the area. More than 30 residents of the area met in the Black Horse Saloon at Wells Gray Ranch on Friday evening, May 27, to talk about the…
Hornepayne Mayor Morley Forster said he hopes his town’s idled lumber mill won’t go the way of the wrecking ball like some other recession-ravaged Northern Ontario forestry mills have done. “My concern at the moment is that some raider will come in and scrap it,” Forster said Tuesday. Haavaldsrud Timber, which was idled in December,…
Softwood lumber agreements between Canada and the United States have come and gone, but one thing should remain the same, says the MP for Cumberland-Colchester. “The softwood lumber industry in Atlantic Canada is different from the industry in the rest of Canada, and it’s essentially the same as the industry in New England, with which…
Today marked the final day of a weeklong competition that saw the top 18 Ontario Envirothon schools from across the province compete for the title of Ontario Envirothon Champion at Fleming College, Lindsay, Ontario. This year’s Ontario Envirothon Champion is University of Toronto Schools from Toronto, who triumphed over 18 other teams from across the…
Construction of roads for a controversial logging project near Nakusp has already begun, but critics are still hoping to see the harvesting plan scrapped. They are worried that the logging near Summit Lake will kill western toads. “We have a lot of video and picture documentation that actually shows that this entire habitat is being…