by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
One of the men killed in the Lakeland Mills sawmill explosion would “literally pound on the table in the lunchroom” when expressing his concerns about the level of wood dust in the facility, a coroners inquest into the incident heard Tuesday. Glenn Roche,...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
Northern Pulp Nova Scotia Corp. will complete a $22-million refit of its Abercrombie Point pulp mill with subcontractors after the Atlanta-based lead engineer withdrew from the installation phase. “We have the required qualified subcontractors here, and we’ve...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
The story of climate change is closely tied to that of the carbon cycle. The increasing amounts of carbon dioxide hanging in our atmosphere — as opposed to being locked up in the world’s oceans, soils, and forests — are leading to broken heat records and...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
When he was a boy, Marvin Yahey lived mostly off the land, hunting and trapping year-round with his family in the game-rich forests in northeastern British Columbia. But an explosion of resource development over the past three decades has so fractured the landscape...
by Working Forest | Mar 6, 2015 | Archives
University of B.C. scientists say they have discovered why a certain type of fungus is killing poplar trees. The researchers’ study, published this week in the The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, found that the fungus, Mycosphaerella populorum, uses...
