by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
Government subsidies for the Cape Breton paper mill have embroiled the province in another trade dispute. A previous dispute that came to a head in December led to hefty duties on U.S. imports of supercalendered paper from Canadian mills. In that case, complaints of...
by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
The early 1990s was a pivotal time for the forest industry and for forest activism in British Columbia. Massive demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience resulted in hundreds of arrests in Clayoquot Sound in response to large-scale clear-cutting on the west coast...
by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
One little-known legacy of the now-expiring softwood lumber agreement: it spawned a massive, Canadian-funded humanitarian effort in the United States that people north of the border have never heard of. Funds dispersed with little fanfare under the decade-old...
by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
We are excited to announce that registration for the 2016 Forests Ontario Annual Conference is open! The conference will take place on Friday, February 5th at the Nottawasaga Inn, Alliston. This year we will be exploring the theme of Regeneration – looking at...
by Working Forest | Dec 18, 2015 | Archives
If you had to sexually attract a brown spruce longhorn beetle, would you know what to do? Jon Sweeney knows. Start with a deep whiff of male beetle sex pheromone. “By itself, it’s not very attractive, but if it’s emitted along with odours that smell...
