by Working Forest | Aug 9, 2016 | Archive Articles, Articles
Forty hectares have never looked so good. At the end of June, the Cumberland Community Forest Society (CCFS) took a huge leap forward in their goal of purchasing, protecting and restoring the Cumberland forest that borders the village. Thanks to a $100,000 grant from...
by Working Forest | Aug 9, 2016 | Archives
Hot, dry and humid conditions have created the perfect scenario for forest fires in the Northeast region of Ontario, which includes South Temiskaming. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) say the North Bay 32 fire, located 12.5 kilometers west of...
by Working Forest | Aug 9, 2016 | Archives
The Supreme Court of Canada recently announced it will not hear an appeal, from a forestry firm’s captive reinsurance company, of a ruling arising from a disputed $25-million liability insurance claim. This means that an order for a new trial in British Columbia, of a...
by Working Forest | Aug 5, 2016 | Archives
David Derbowka has long turned to trees to clean up toxic landfills, using plantations of poplars to draw contaminants from polluted soil. Now he is teaming up with a University of British Columbia chemist in a project aimed at extracting from the trees the chemicals...
by Working Forest | Aug 5, 2016 | Archives
More than four years after a Cherryville landslide almost destroyed a home, provincial documents that shed light on the cause of the slide have been made public. The reports backup what locals have feared all along – an upslope logging project helped trigger the...
