by Working Forest | Jun 23, 2015 | Archives
UCLUELET – Economic and employment opportunities in the Barkley sound region are being enhanced by a new community forest agreement announced today by Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson. The Barkley community forest agreement will...
by Working Forest | Jun 23, 2015 | Archives
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) says the recommendations by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources on transforming the forest sector will help the industry reach the ambitious goals of its Vision2020. The committee report is...
by Working Forest | Jun 23, 2015 | Archives
In the 60 years since Bob Jordan III joined his family’s North Carolina sawmill business, he hasn’t seen anything quite like the Canadian invasion of the South’s lumber industry. “You didn’t have people coming in from the outside — we never had this before,”...
by Working Forest | Jun 23, 2015 | Archives
After the report on June 21st, there were three new fires reported. North bay 4 is under control at 0.5 hectares and is located near Pickerel Bay of Lake Temagami. Cochrane 8 is currently not under control at 4.5 hectares and is located near the far north communities...
by Working Forest | Jun 23, 2015 | Archives
As mayors across the region are banding together to counter forestry activists, a debate is heating up over whether environmental restrictions placed on the industry to preserve caribou habitat is actually backed by science. Protecting the ranges of Ontario’s woodland...
