by Working Forest | May 11, 2015 | Archives
The news has gone from bad to worse for the city’s ash trees. Even many of the trees the city hopes save by injecting them with a pricey insecticide are dying. And it’s having trouble finding specimens that are healthy enough to be injected. The city aims...
by Working Forest | May 11, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
The managed forest initiative, established in cooperation with World Wildlife Fund China, is a multi-year plan that brings Apple closer to its goal of achieving net-zero impact on the world’s virgin fiber. As the world’s largest timber importer, China will...
by Working Forest | May 11, 2015 | Archives
After seeking a renewal to their energy selling agreement with the provincial government for over a year in order to remain open, the Cochrane Power plant will be shut down if doesn’t get a new contract, or an extension to its current one, by midnight tonight....
by Working Forest | May 8, 2015 | Archives
Open-air fires either in or close to forests have been banned in certain areas across southern Quebec because of current weather conditions. The ban was put in place on Wednesday by Quebec’s ministry of forests, fauna and parks. Areas from Quebec City to the Outaouais...
by Working Forest | May 8, 2015 | Archives
Interfor Corp. (TSX:IFP) is buying a sawmill in Monticello, Ark., for just under US$29.3 million plus the cost of log and lumber inventories and certain pre-closing capital expenditures. The mill, about 145 kilometres southeast of Little Rock, produced about 75...
