Powell River Community Forest made a profit of close to $750,000 from logging city-owned property this year. At the Tuesday, August 18, City of Powell River committee of the whole meeting, Greg Hemphill, president of community forest board of directors, and Chris Laing, manager of forest operations, spoke regarding the management strategy for the community…
The Canada-United States Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) will likely expire next month and enter a one-year standstill period, said British Columbia’s Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources Operations. Steve Thomson made the comments while visiting staff at the ministry’s office in Dawson Creek. “Our current position is consistent with the industry position, which is…
Firefighter Stephanie Preheim had only just arrived at the storage facility she was assigned to protect from a massive wildfire near the tourist town of Chelan, Washington, when the winds shifted, pushing the blaze back her way. Told to stand down, the suddenly sidelined Preheim did what any idled 19-year-old would do; she got out…
New tools designed to help WorkSafeBC crack down on regulation and Workers Compensation Act violators are coming into effect Sept. 18. Instead of issuing an order, WorkSafeBC will be able to enter into a compliance agreement with an employer. Under that agreement, the employer will voluntarily agree to correct occupational health and safety violations, and…
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is celebrating the international recognition for the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) at the World Forest Congress now going on in Durban, South Africa. An interactive side event called From Conflict to Collaboration featured a huge 8 by 11-metre floor map of Canada’s boreal forest detailing everything from…
A New Liskeard-headquartered forest management company is close to commercializing a proprietary remote sensing technology to calculate forest inventories. First Resource Management Group has developed a flagship timber inventory analysis and management tool, SkyForest, and is conducting various trials this year with a number of prospective clients across Canada. The 20-employee forestry consultancy, and now…
The rate at which the world is losing its forests has halved, but an area of woodland the size of South Africa has still been lost since 1990, a UN report revealed Monday. Improvement has been seen around the globe, even in the key tropical rainforests of South America and Africa, according to a surprisingly…
A summer long research project on spruce budworm on P.E.I. has been completed. About two dozen citizen scientists assisted the Canadian Forest Service project that is tracking the migration of the spruce budworm. Spruce budworm feed on balsam fir and spruce trees and outbreaks have already destroyed millions of hectares of forest in Quebec. The…
Alberta’s plan to fully protect the Castle wilderness area in southwestern Alberta is being both panned and praised by opposition parties. The Notley government announced Friday that it would create two parks along the eastern slopes of the Rockies by expanding the existing wildland provincial park and adding a new provincial park. It will shut out logging, mining, and…
The B.C. government is calling for stiffer penalties for the illegal use of drones after unmanned aerial vehicles flew dangerously close to wildfires this summer. Mike Morris, parliamentary secretary to the minister of forests, said the provincial government is looking for ways to stop the use of drones near wildfires. Fighting forest fires is already…