by Working Forest | Apr 28, 2015 | Archives
Gov. Paul LePage on Monday reiterated that he will not authorize roughly $11.5 million in voter-approved conservation bonds unless the Legislature approves a new plan to cut more timber on public land and use the new revenue to pay for heating assistance programs....
by Working Forest | Apr 28, 2015 | Archives
At a campaign stop at a Grande Prairie lumber mill, Progressive Conservative Leader Jim Prentice called for Alberta to diversify its economy. Prentice spoke Monday morning at the Weyerhaeuser plant, a Grande Prairie facility that also operates a cogeneration plant....
by Working Forest | Apr 28, 2015 | Archives
If a moose falls in the forest, does anybody know? Based on a major five-year provincial study underway in the central Interior, biologists not only know but fly out on helicopters as soon as possible to determine cause of death. There are 175 moose fitted with...
by Working Forest | Apr 28, 2015 | Archives
When you hear the word “boom” in the West, you usually think of the energy industry, but in the last 15 years, a timber boom has taken over. Thanks to the mountain pine beetle, a tiny ravenous bug that’s now chomped its way through over 40 million acres of forest in...
by Working Forest | Apr 28, 2015 | Archives
A timber company has reached an 11th-hour, out-of-court settlement with a cattle rancher who claims that salvage logging of beetle-killed forests seriously altered the hydrology of his Chilcotin farmland. Randy Saugstad said Thursday that he considers the settlement...
