by Working Forest | Mar 30, 2018 | Archive Articles, Articles
Statement by Monika Patel, Director of Programs and Communications, FSC Canada: You may have seen the news this week that Greenpeace International has decided to change its role in the Forest Stewardship Council. Following its restructuring three years ago to...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2018 | Archives
CBC News -Unifor has selected Resolute Forest Products as the target company in a new round of “pattern bargaining,” which the union hopes will set a precedent for all of eastern Canada’s forestry industry, a Unifor spokesperson told the CBC. Pattern...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2018 | Archive Articles, Articles
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — After a career spent battling wildland fires across the West, U.S. Forest Service interim Chief Vicki Christiansen must now confront another sort of crisis: the harassment and bullying of women that’s persisted in the agency’s...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2018 | Archives
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Greenpeace is withdrawing from the main global group for certifying sustainable wood, saying the organization it helped found more than two decades ago is failing to protect natural forests from exploitation. Greenpeace said the Forest...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2018 | Archives
A University of Alberta graduate student may have found a way to speed up the long, expensive process of reclaiming land torn up for oilsands extraction. Prem Pokharel’s master’s thesis showed that loading jack pine and trembling aspen seedlings with extra nitrogen...