by Working Forest | May 20, 2015 | Archives
Forest fires as news stories have always been popular. That has never changed. What has changed, however, is how the news media cover them. Not so long ago, the B.C. Forest Service welcomed reporters and photographers out to the front lines, to get up close to the...
by Working Forest | May 19, 2015 | Archives
Much ado has been made of late about the advantages and, increasingly, the potential disadvantages of using wood to create energy. Figuring out what’s what on that front has taken on new urgency, with renewable energy policies in Europe driving an unprecedented...
by Working Forest | May 19, 2015 | Archives
The provincial government will take a close look at the recommendations from the coroner’s inquest into the fatal Lakeland Mills explosion and fire, B.C. Premier Christy Clark said Friday. Twenty-two of the 33 recommendations were addressed to provincial...
by Working Forest | May 19, 2015 | Archives
In the north woods of Maine, Tom Shafer is bumping along on a rutted trail in his four-wheel drive truck. Ahead are mounds of maple, pine, oak and birch trees, all cut a century or more ago and pulled from the bottom of a lake. Clumped together in the muck, the logs...
by Working Forest | May 19, 2015 | Archives
An environmental group is suing to stop a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest near Libby. The Alliance for the Wild Rockies says in its federal lawsuit the project violates environmental laws and threatens lynx and grizzly bear habitat. The East River...
