by Working Forest | May 16, 2017 | Archives
Community action groups fighting the logging of the Upper Clearwater Valley at the entrance to Wells Gray Provincial Park have banded together and are going above the province to take their issue to the federal level. The company carrying out the logging, Canfor, as...
by Working Forest | May 16, 2017 | Archives
That the current crop of politicians don’t understand trade and tariffs is well known. Donald Trump and his administration really do seem to be labouring under the impression that imports make us all poorer. Entirely the wrong way around of course, imports are...
by Working Forest | May 16, 2017 | Archives
Forests come in many different formats, but they’re all hugely important to life on Earth — humans included. Yet as deforestation continues to shrink woodlands around the world, these eminent ecosystems are overdue for some good news. And a new study obliges:...
by Working Forest | May 16, 2017 | Archives
The Forestry Agency said Monday that it will resume felling and shipping trees in Fukushima Prefecture this fall on a trial basis. Following the triple meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March 2011, logging...
by Working Forest | May 16, 2017 | Archives
Pioneers.That’s the word Rob Costanzo, the manager of engineering operations at the City of Surrey, uses to describe those behind the city’s new organic biofuel facility, which is to start processing organic waste this summer, turning it into renewable...
