The 2015 wildfire season was one of the busiest on record, Alberta Forestry Minister Oneil Carlier says. “There was not a lot of snowpack through the winter, so we had a particularly dry spring. and especially in the spring and summer, there was not a lot of rain, either, and there were a lot of…
Forestry had a good showing at the 7th Annual BC Aboriginal Business Awards last month which is good news for the whole sector. Lincoln Douglas accepted the Business of the Year – 10 or more person enterprise award for his company, K & L Contracting/Links Contracting. Quatern Limited Partnership, a logging company co-owned by Quatsino First Nation and Western…
The Canfor Mill as Canal Flats officially closes its doors Monday said the United Steelworkers Local 1-405 in a media release. As of Monday (November 9), after over a 100 years of sawmill operation in or around Canal Flats that history has come to an end. “This has been devastating for our members, their families,…
Quesnel City Council is lobbying B.C. Premier Christy Clark on behalf of the community’s forest sector. Council approved Mayor Bob Simpson’s letter to the premier this week in support of an 18 month old request by West Fraser for PST relief for Quesnel River Pulp and for the premier to take immediate steps to reduce…
Tree harvesting will begin next week as part of the forest management plan at Crescent Lake. Town Councilor Dawn Miceli said planning took several years but the first phase is ready to begin. The UCONN College of Agriculture and Natural Resources developed the plan. Recommendations include tree thinning in certain areas and removing invasive species….
A group of mills is about to get access to a large area of forested Crown land in Queens, Shelburne, Digby and Yarmouth counties. The parcel is 566,600 hectares — roughly the same size as Prince Edward Island — and basically represents all the Crown land west of Highway 102, which runs between Truro and Halifax. Approximately one-third of the…
Canada has signed almost two dozen side letters with its trading partners in the Trans-Pacific Partnership, including an agreement with the United States to combat illicit trade. Canada also signed a side agreement with Japan that appears to protect the exports of British Columbia logs, a key sticking point between those countries in the multi-layered…
Many Nova Scotians imagine the mill owner’s profits are pretty good, since it is assumed the maker of supercalendered paper can remain profitable and still pay millions of dollars in trade penalties to the United States government. The U.S. Department of Commerce has ruled Port Hawkesbury Paper’s exports into that country have an unfair price…
As the province’s wolf cull gets set to enter its second season, environmentalists are accusing the provincial government of letting logging companies affect mountain caribou management policies. The province launched into the wolf cull last winter, claiming it was necessary to protect the dwindling South Selkirk and South Peace caribou herds. Locally, the South Selkirk…
A march and rally for sustainable BC forestry garnered a crowd of upwards of 100 at Charles Hoey Park Friday afternoon. The event, organized by the Pulp, Paper, and Woodworkers of Canada Public and the Ancient Forest Alliance, and attended by folks from up and down the Island, had a message for the provincial government:…