by Working Forest | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives
Alberta is home to the first commercial-scale plant in Canada to extract a natural substance in trees called lignin for the development of sustainable new value-added products. West Fraser, a diversified forest products company with operations across Western Canada,...
by Working Forest | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives
A Superior Court Justice has dismissed an injunction to stop logging around the Highway 144 community of Benny, northwest of Greater Sudbury. “The applicants have made impassioned and effective submissions,” Justice Edward Gareau wrote in his three-page...
by Working Forest | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives
It was a Toronto winter carnival unlike any other – if only because it featured a “Wolf Man.” On Saturday Jan. 31, 1925, tens of thousands of Torontonians cheered in High Park while they watched “Wolf Man Joe LaFlamme” drive a sled team of timber wolves and huskies...
by Working Forest | Apr 7, 2016 | Archives
The pruning ban is in effect and the warnings are out as Saskatoon prepares to keep the elm bark beetle out of the urban forest this summer. The tree killing beetle brought the first confirmed case of Dutch elm disease to the city last year. “The case that we...
by Working Forest | Apr 7, 2016 | Archive Articles, Articles
The inaugural Logger Training Program in the West Kootenay was successfully completed at the endof February, opening up opportunities for employment in the regional forestry sector for thegraduates. The objective of the training was to introduce individuals to the...
