by Working Forest | May 15, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Investors in lumber stocks are feeling dismayed at the sector’s recent price performance. Confounding bullish expectations, prices are well off their recent highs. Investors must feel like the parents of a super-star high school student who inexplicably is at risk of...
by Working Forest | May 15, 2015 | Archives
A coroner’s inquest has ruled the deaths of two men at the Lakeland Mills explosion in Prince George, B.C, as accidental. Thursday’s ruling includes 33 recommendations aimed at improving workplace safety and improving the investigation of workplace death....
by Working Forest | May 15, 2015 | Archives
Napa Valley vintner David Duncan has been known to stick his head in an American white oak barrel to get a full hit of the vanilla-laden, fresh-baked cookie smell the emanates from the wood. In fact, his Silver Oak winery — which produces classic cabernet sauvignon...
by Working Forest | May 15, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
While it may seem like contrary to its primary function, Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Forestry Department has announced it’s going paperless. An article in the VIU newsletter said that in September first-year students enrolled in VIU’s Forest Resources...
by Working Forest | May 15, 2015 | Archives
Canadian pulp and paper mills have been reinventing themselves in recent years in response to increased international competition and reduced global demand for forest products such as newsprint. As a result, many mills have started integrating biomass conversion...
