by Working Forest | Oct 13, 2015 | Archives
BC companies that want to be big in Japan are expecting the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to provide a boost. “It would be difficult for us to see how Canada could not have signed this because otherwise our competitors would have had an advantage,” said Christina...
by Working Forest | Oct 13, 2015 | Articles
There was a flurry of excitement in the B.C. legislature last week, as Delta South independent MLA Vicki Huntington released documents suggesting that a multinational manufacturing company continued to buy up B.C. farms for carbon offsets after they said last June...
by Working Forest | Oct 13, 2015 | Archives
The softwood lumber agreement between Canada and the United States expires Monday, and British Columbia is signalling that reaffirming lumber trade stability between the two countries must become a top priority of the new government in Ottawa following the federal...
by Working Forest | Oct 9, 2015 | Archives
B.C.’s drought this past summer is expected to eventually kill many trees, but a forest pathologist said it might not be apparent which trees until the spring. Stefan Zeglen with the Ministry of Forest, Lands and Natural Resources in Nanaimo said a significant...
by Working Forest | Oct 9, 2015 | Articles
The program ‘Opening Doors’ featuring Aboriginal door carving is opening doors to a new generation of young Aboriginal artists embracing the culture and storytelling nature of traditional BC Aboriginal art. On October 5, FPInnovations and Emily Carr...