by Working Forest | Apr 17, 2015 | Archives
North America’s enormous conifer forests are being decimated by tiny beetles. About the size of a pencil eraser, bark beetles are native pests that have gotten carried away in recent years with help from climate change. They’ve killed 46 million acres of...
by Working Forest | Apr 17, 2015 | Archives
Surespan, the company that holds AJB Investments, assures it will not log in the watershed on the east side of Chapman Creek this spring and will only plant trees in cut block CH1 on the west side. Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD) board chair Garry Nohr told...
by Working Forest | Apr 17, 2015 | Archives
Even after a thirty-year career in the industry, I often tell people that fresh information about British Columbia’s coastal forest industry crosses my desk every day. One recent example came from a new report by Business Council of British Columbia (BCBC). The...
by Working Forest | Apr 17, 2015 | Archives
James Gorman says there’s reasons to be optimistic and also a number of factors to keep an eye on over the next while in the forestry sector. The president of the Council of Forest Industries (COFI) made the comments on day one of their annual two day convention in...
by Working Forest | Apr 17, 2015 | Archives
Paper Excellence reportedly has plans to restart operations at its Chetwynd mechanical pulp mill in British Columbia, Canada as early as July. The mill, which Paper Excellence bought from Tembec in March of 2014, has been idle since September 2012. At the time the...
