by Working Forest | Mar 30, 2015 | Archives
The man tapped by the U.S. Forest Service to come up with a better fire shelter once had to get inside one on the side of a burning mountain and listen to flames roar past sounding like a jet airplane taking off. “Everybody trains with it, but nobody ever thinks...
by Working Forest | Mar 30, 2015 | Archives
Planting a tree in an urban environment is like placing it on death row. In the wild, ash and linden trees can live anywhere from 80 years to more than 200, says Martin Neumann, manager of the City of Guelph’s forestry department. But once that same type of tree...
by Working Forest | Mar 30, 2015 | Archives
The deadline for a final agreement on the Great Bear Rainforest – a precedent-setting pact between the B.C. coastal forest industry, First Nations and environmentalists – is expected to be missed because the provincial government has not yet finalized its commitments....
by Working Forest | Mar 30, 2015 | Archives
With a 6% increase in sales revenue to a total of around CAD1.037bn, Canadian Western Forest Products (WFP) succeeded in surpassing the CAD1bn mark last year for the first time in its history but its EBITDA and net result remained well short of the previous year’s...
by Working Forest | Mar 30, 2015 | Archives
A Halifax-area lumber producer hopes to have its sawmill running again within six weeks after a recent flash freeze led to the collapse of one of its main buildings. Hefler Lumber co-owner Floyd Gaetz says the failure happened about three weeks ago, and initially...
