by Working Forest | Mar 24, 2015 | Archives
A union representing more than 9,000 forestry workers is withdrawing from a coroner’s inquest into the deaths of four sawmill employees because it says it lost confidence in the process to determine what went wrong before and after the blasts. A coroner’s inquest in...
by Working Forest | Mar 23, 2015 | Archives
The devastation caused by the little mountain pine beetle is on the decline, but there are some areas in the South Okanagan that are still feeling the affects of this pesky insect. “We have had little mountain pine beetle activity in the past few years as it has...
by Working Forest | Mar 23, 2015 | Archives
Cape Breton University is partnering with a New Waterford-based company to produce a valuable compound from birch bark that could be used for medical applications. CBU chemist Hisham Sleem is working on a process to extract and refine betulin, which sells for $150 per...
by Working Forest | Mar 23, 2015 | Archives
The New Brunswick Department of Natural Resources released a new online map March 12 that shows, in detail, Crown land conservation areas. It also illustrates changes in those areas in relation to the 2014 Crown Land Forest Management Strategy. “This is a continuation...
by Working Forest | Mar 23, 2015 | Archives
The biomass boiler near Port Hawkesbury consumed 530,000 tonnes of woody biomass last year, with nearly a quarter of that imported from outside the province, CBC has learned. The total consumed by the plant in 2014 amounts to about 50 large pulp trucks a day. It...
