Forestry services and other related industries have suffered recently in Nova Scotia, but a group of partners in western Nova Scotia is coming together to try and change that. Mark Shaw, a Windsor branch employee of the Department of Natural Resources, demonstrates a spacing/clearing saw during the DNR field day trip at the Oulton’s woodlot…
Liam Dewar, the director of Eurban Limited in London, England presented Timber for the Masses at the Wood Solutions Fair in downtown Vancouver. Dewar discussed the evolution of mass timber in the U.K. It started with nail laminated timber (NLT) and its use was accepted and grew. He said that NLT does have some challenges…
With the federal election now behind us, the new prime minister can and must promote the economy and the environment in the first few weeks of his mandate. The foundation for both future economic stability and environmental sustainability will be laid for decades to come based on two significant global initiatives — the Trans-Pacific Partnership…
The changing colour of leaves is an impressive annual spectacle, but it can make one wonder, why bother creating something so beautiful just before it withers away? Well that wonder exists in the scientific community as well, says one McMaster University professor, who said there are two prevailing theories, with no clear cut answer, on why leaves turn from green to red….
BC Hydro has made adjustments to the routing of its planned new 287kV power line that will extend from the Skeena Substation in Terrace to Kitimat in order to avoid an area of old growth trees bordering the Lakelse River. The change was in response to concerns raised by a local land management committee. The…
A proposed moose hunt inside Cape Breton Highlands National Park hasn’t received final approval yet, according to a park manager, but it is necessary. That’s because the moose population in the park is four times higher than the average density found in a typical, healthy North American forest, said Derek Quann, resource conservation manager for…
West Fraser Timber Co. Ltd. reported earnings of $56 million, or $0.67 basic earnings per share on sales of $1,044 million in the 3Q 2015. In the quarter lumber operations generated an operating loss of $9 million (2Q 2015 – operating earnings of $13 million) and Adjusted EBITDA of $26 million (2Q 2015 – $45…
The Canadian forestry industry said on Monday it is seeking a simple roll-over of an expired 2006 softwood lumber export agreement with the United States in hopes of preventing a fresh trade fight over the product. Canada and the United States have a long history of battling over softwood lumber, which in Canada generally comes…
EACOM Timber Corporation is spending $2.8 million on increased automation at its Timmins sawmill. The company is putting in place a new lumber grading dystem, which will determine the grade of each piece of lumber faster and more accurately than human workers. “The job (when done by humans) demands high concentration because the piece goes…
Justin Trudeau is barely off the campaign bus and he’s already facing his first major trade showdown with the United States. And it’s not over the Keystone XL pipeline, the Trans-Pacific Partnership or climate-change policy. The prime-minister-designate is about to get his introduction to the never-ending softwood lumber file. The most intractable trade dispute in…