We are excited to announce that registration for the 2016 Forests Ontario Annual Conference is open! The conference will take place on Friday, February 5th at the Nottawasaga Inn, Alliston. This year we will be exploring the theme of Regeneration – looking at engaging future generations of environmental leaders to help face the challenges ahead…
If you had to sexually attract a brown spruce longhorn beetle, would you know what to do? Jon Sweeney knows. Start with a deep whiff of male beetle sex pheromone. “By itself, it’s not very attractive, but if it’s emitted along with odours that smell like a stressed spruce tree …it increases the attraction five…
The Forest Stewardship Council is launching a mediation process to try and bring peace to Quebec’s woodlands. The organization that oversees the world’s most recognized forest certification standard said Thursday that the process will bring together Resolute Forest Products, First Nations, unions, environmental groups and others to find “common ground” over contentious issues raised about…
The Budworm Tracker program, which involved field reports from ‘citizen scientists,’ received an “unheard of” 90 per cent return rate on the data, says Rob Johns, a forest insect ecologist with Canadian Forest Service in Fredericton. “To put it in perspective, if you can get 20-40 per cent back from a citizen scientist program you’re…
Cameco announced today that its board appointed Don Kayne as a director effective January 1, 2016 until the next annual general shareholders’ meeting where he will stand for election by the shareholders with the rest of the board. Kayne is president and CEO of Canfor Corporation, as well as CEO of Canfor Pulp Products Inc….
It starts as fluff on the side of a beech tree’s smooth grey bark. Pinpricks of white wax dot the tree; sometimes sparsely, other times it nearly covers the trunk. That’s the scale insect, digging in – opening up the tree’s bark – and is the first step to beech bark disease. Next comes the…
Columbia Forest Products is reopening its Rutherglen veneer mill, east of North Bay, after a five-year shutdown. Gary Gillespie, vice-president of Columbia’s Northern Operations, announced Dec. 15 that Columbia is in the “intermediate stages” of preparations to reopening the shuttered veneer facility, which closed in 2010 in the face of imports from China, a strong…
Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) responds to misleading media statements by third parties regarding the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final order for countervailing duties on supercalendered paper from Canada. Contrary to those misleading media statements, the Department of Commerce found countervailable subsidies during its investigation only at the Port Hawkesbury mill in…
Northern Pulp says air pollution from the stacks at its pulp mill in Pictou County are now fully below environmental thresholds established by the Nova Scotia government. “We are in compliance and we intend to stay there,” general manager Bruce Chapman told CBC News on Wednesday. In October, the provincial government ordered the mill to produce an action plan to reduce…
The city is expected to start permitting six-storey wood frame construction in early 2016. Saskatoon’s current building code limits structures to four storeys. This initiative intends to satisfy customer interest and increase urban density through the use of mid-rise commercial or residential buildings. Key areas of focus include the downtown, University of Saskatchewan lands, and…