by Working Forest | May 29, 2015 | Archives
Madill Equipment, a Nicholson Manufacturing company, announced the completion of the first Madill 124 swing yarder to be manufactured in Canada since 2007. Madill was founded as a blacksmith shop in Nanaimo B.C. in 1909 and, during the 1950’s, began manufacturing...
by Working Forest | May 28, 2015 | Archives
B.C.’s biomass energy sector believes it has a unique opportunity in the aftermath of the mountain pine beetle infestation that has ravaged 18 million hectares of provincial forests, but it needs a little help from Victoria. Gordon Murray, the executive director of...
by Working Forest | May 28, 2015 | Archives
Of all the properties The Land Conservancy of B.C. holds, none is more complex than Wildwood, a 31-hectare woodlot known as Merv Wilkinson’s ecoforest. The TLC board has been grappling over the best management and ownership structure, but is confident that a...
by Working Forest | May 28, 2015 | Archives
The trees are in the ground; now it’s up to Guinness Worlds Record to confirm whether the multi-team tree planting record attempt on May 20th was successful. In total, 28 teams from across North America banded together to plant multiple sites in locations...
by Working Forest | May 28, 2015 | Archives
Students from Bamfield Community school helped make Vancouver Island a little bit greener in April with the planting of the 40 millionth seedling for Island Timberlands. The special cedar seedling was planted on April 10 in an Island Timberlands cut block 57...
