Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have created a transparent wood that can be produced in bulk, the university announced Thursday. Transparent wood isn’t new. Lumber has been fashioned into translucent, minute pieces for the study of wood. However, the university’s efforts could lead to the mass production of the material—something that…
Scheduled to debut at milan design week 2016, toyota’s ‘setsuna’ concept defies the notion that cars should always be seen technological marvels with the latest gadgets. the unique wooden roadster was conceived to embody the affection owners grow to feel for their cars and to show how cars continue to change and offer real value…
Białowieza Forest is the kind of place you imagine from the Grimm fairy tales. Huge firs, oaks and ashes tower over you, woodpeckers and other birds call all around you and the guides who work there know the intimate history, and names, of many individual trees. For anyone, it is a magical place – and,…
The losing battle against the emerald ash borer continues in Guelph and the surrounding area, as forestry experts take measures designed primarily to protect the public. Nothing much can be done now to keep the little green bug at bay and the trees alive, those experts say. But there is some hope for ash survival…
The allowable annual cuts for timber harvesting will be reduced in the Merritt Timber Supply Area now that most pine beetle affected wood has been collected. Effective immediately, the new allowable amount will be 1.5 million cubic metres and will decrease to 1.2 million cubic metres on Mar. 24, 2021. This is a decrease from…
For the first time in almost four decades the community of McBride, B.C. will not hold its annual Logger’s Bonspiel. Secretary of the McBride Chamber of Commerce Linda Fry says the cancellation is indicative of the decline of the forestry industry in the community. “In 1996 we had a large forestry building that housed a…
Hidden behind a wall of trees, the feller buncher — a type of harvester used in logging — cuts the bottoms off several pine trees, bundles them together and throws them on to a pile. Its operator makes quick work, bringing down a stand of trees in minutes. The skidder, another heavy logging vehicle, pulls the cut trees out of the downed forest. “While the…
No, no, no is the answer to the question raised by Peter Moreira (March 17): Can entrepreneurship ‘save’ Atlantic Canada? Only innovation, radical change in governance — a new spirit to bring new meaning to our existence — can do it. Peddling isn’t the answer. Atlantic Canada in my lifetime produced more leaders per capita…
A cutting-edge satellite-based alert system could help policymakers and conservationists put a dent in illegal logging by notifying users in real time of new bald patches in the world’s rainforests. The system, known as the Global Land Analysis and Discovery alert system, was developed by the Department of Geographical Sciences at the University of Maryland…
An outbreak of the spruce beetle in the Omineca region north of Prince George could be a harbinger of things to come if the conditions that brought it to the fore remain in place in the coming years, according to a University of Northern British Columbia professor. Like its cousin, the pine beetle, deep cold…