by Working Forest | Mar 31, 2015 | Archives
Canada’s top lumber companies, struggling to make two-by-fours from trees killed by the mountain pine beetle, made less lumber at home in 2014, but made up for it by increasing production at mills they own in the United States, according to a survey by industry...
by Working Forest | Mar 30, 2015 | Archives
Wood pellets have been at a premium over the last two years because of back-to-back severe winters. Local retailers had to place a limit on the number of bags anyone can purchase in order to be able to provide some pellet supplies to as many customers as possible. One...
by Working Forest | Mar 30, 2015 | Archives
A new Northern Policy Institute report entitled Diversify, Innovate, Invest…and Grow identifies the Kenora district among five of the 11 Northern Ontario census districts to experience population growth from 2001 to 2013. The report’s author Julien Bonin attributes...
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...
