by Working Forest | Sep 15, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
OREGON CITY, Ore., The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that builds upon the existing collaborative relationship between the SLB and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the MOU and effective...
by Working Forest | Sep 9, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
THE GUARDIAN — Native forest logging in Western Australia will end at the start of 2024, the state government has announced, in a decision hailed as historic by the premier, Mark McGowan, and conservation campaigners. Hardware giant Bunnings has...
by Working Forest | Sep 9, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
Ritchie Bros. has announced that its chief operating officer, Jim Kessler, will take on the additional role of president, effective immediately. “The president role will align our global revenue, services, operations, and critical support functions under Jim’s...
by Working Forest | Sep 2, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
CBC NEWS — A little over a year ago, the first protesters arrived at the Fairy Creek watershed in southern Vancouver Island to stop logging in the old-growth forest. Today, the blockade — which could soon become the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian...
by Working Forest | Aug 31, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
LEWISTON TRIBUNE — Western white pine, as a species, was known as king pine in the early 1900s because of its dominance on the landscape and the outsized role it played in the timber industry. And this particular tree was the biggest of the big, the largest...
