by Working Forest | Jun 6, 2016 | Archives
Biomass inventory, supply-chain logistics, standards and technological applications, emerging markets, technical and regulatory hurdles were highlights of two bio-economy workshops held recently in Thunder Bay. Hosted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry...
by Working Forest | Jun 6, 2016 | Archives
Cherryville residents hope a review will lead to changes within a government agency. The Forest Practices Board will examine the activities of the B.C. Timber Sales program in the Okanagan-Shuswap starting Monday. “I hope rural communities will have some influence on...
by Working Forest | Jun 3, 2016 | Archives
When the linguists Martin Meissner and Stuart Philpott first started visiting sawmills in British Columbia in the 1970s, they thought they’d find workers communicating without speaking, probably with some simple gestures that contained technical information. There was...
by Working Forest | Jun 3, 2016 | Archives
Sawmills across Northern Ontario continue to be busy, feeding an increasingly hungry U.S. housing market. Statistics Canada reports that mills cranked out 6 per cent more lumber in March than they did a year earlier. That includes the five sawmills in northern...
by Working Forest | Jun 3, 2016 | Archives
Women in Forestry is the first in a series of hands-on, one-day workshops for women with an interest in woodland management and will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, June 4. The workshop is funded by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and organized by...
