by Working Forest | Jan 18, 2016 | Archives
There is a meme floating around Canadian policy circles that if the job losses that are currently occurring in the oil and gas industry were happening anywhere else in Canada, we would see a bailout. Like many memes, it is difficult to precisely identify its origins....
by Working Forest | Jan 18, 2016 | Articles
When he retired in the late 1960s, pioneering Montana forester John B. Taylor recorded a memoir on tapes. Taylor’s engaging narrative was transcribed by journalist and editor John C. Frohlicher, a contemporary of Taylor’s who claimed that his hardest task was...
by Working Forest | Jan 18, 2016 | Articles
The Pacific Northwest had many fires last year. For some, forest fires conjure images of trees completely vaporized by fire. But crown fires often move through a forest fairly rapidly, consuming tree needles and fine branches and leaving charred snags. Chopping into...
by Working Forest | Jan 14, 2016 | Archives
With the Canadian dollar hovering below $0.70 U.S., Canada’s forestry industry is getting some much needed help, but storm clouds could be on the way. The Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Agreement, which kept trade peace between the two countries, expired last October,...
by Working Forest | Jan 14, 2016 | Archives
In September 2008, when thousands of riled-up Republicans filed into the Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, Minn., for the party’s national convention, the upcoming election wasn’t the only thing on their minds. Oil had soared to US$145 a barrel just months earlier,...
