by Working Forest | Dec 18, 2015 | Archives
The Budworm Tracker program, which involved field reports from ‘citizen scientists,’ received an “unheard of” 90 per cent return rate on the data, says Rob Johns, a forest insect ecologist with Canadian Forest Service in Fredericton. “To...
by Working Forest | Dec 18, 2015 | Archives
Cameco announced today that its board appointed Don Kayne as a director effective January 1, 2016 until the next annual general shareholders’ meeting where he will stand for election by the shareholders with the rest of the board. Kayne is president and CEO of...
by Working Forest | Dec 17, 2015 | Archives
It starts as fluff on the side of a beech tree’s smooth grey bark. Pinpricks of white wax dot the tree; sometimes sparsely, other times it nearly covers the trunk. That’s the scale insect, digging in – opening up the tree’s bark – and is the first step to beech bark...
by Working Forest | Dec 17, 2015 | Archives
Columbia Forest Products is reopening its Rutherglen veneer mill, east of North Bay, after a five-year shutdown. Gary Gillespie, vice-president of Columbia’s Northern Operations, announced Dec. 15 that Columbia is in the “intermediate stages” of preparations to...
by Working Forest | Dec 17, 2015 | Archives
Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) responds to misleading media statements by third parties regarding the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final order for countervailing duties on supercalendered paper from Canada. Contrary to those misleading...
