by Working Forest | Aug 9, 2017 | Archives
Registration is now open for the CIF-IFC’s 109th annual general meeting and conference that will take place at the Westin Hotel, in Ottawa, from September 27-29, 2017. As a part of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, the theme of this year’s event is...
by Working Forest | Aug 9, 2017 | Archives
Tembec’s Kapuskasing Sawmill is a two-shift operation that consumes approximately 410,000 m3 of roundwood logs on an annual basis. The entire volume is received within a three-and-a-half month period, during frost season (December through March). Approximately 10,000...
by Working Forest | Aug 9, 2017 | Archives
OTTAWA – The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) has opened its annual request for proposals (RFP) for the SFI Conservation and Community Partnerships Grant Program. The grants program supports SFI’s work to promote sustainable forest management through...
by Working Forest | Aug 9, 2017 | Archives
Artificial intelligence may soon be used to help predict extreme fire weather to better prepare provinces for devastating wildfires. According to the Edmonton Journal, researchers from the University of Alberta and University of Oklahoma teamed up to study how...
by Working Forest | Aug 9, 2017 | Archives
A University of Alberta forestry professor has cracked a key mystery surrounding the mountain pine beetle, the university reports. After studying lodgepole pine trees in the Grande Prairie area that survived a pine beetle attack, U of A professor Nadir Erbilgin and...
