by Working Forest | Mar 18, 2016 | Archives
North America log exports to Japan decreased by 17.1% in 2015, reaching 2,565,063 cbm, thelowest level since 2010. The Canadian log export dropped by 30%, to 802,687 cbm, while the US log exports declined 8.7%, reaching 1,762,000 cbm. Thus, the log share of the US to...
by Working Forest | Mar 18, 2016 | Archives
Premier Christy Clark says the province is committed to not repeating past mistakes when it comes to dealing with the recent spruce beetle epidemic. “What happened in the 1990s with the pine beetle infestation and how government sort of seat back and let it roll...
by Working Forest | Mar 18, 2016 | Archives
J.D. Irving announces that Phase 2 of the modernization project at its Irving Pulp & Paper Mill in Saint John, New Brunswick is about 95% complete.The project is part of a $450 million modernization — the largest pulp mill investment in Canada since 1993. To...
by Working Forest | Mar 18, 2016 | Archives
Clyde McNichol, Art Petahtegoose and Barbara Ronson McNichol will take their concerns about logging in Benny Forest to the Superior Court of Justice in Sudbury on Friday at 10 a.m., to get an injunction to stop tree-cutting and spraying of defoliants. The three are...
by Working Forest | Mar 17, 2016 | Archives
Forty years ago, Maine’s forests were devastated by a cyclical spruce budworm infestation that destroyed 25 million cords of white spruce and balsam fir trees. Forestry experts say another infestation is only a couple of years away, and while Maine is better prepared...
by Working Forest | Mar 17, 2016 | Archives
B.C.’s newest Class A provincial park is an 11,000-hectare expanse of the world’s only inland temperate rainforest east of Prince George. Called the Ancient Forest/Chun T’oh Wudujut, the region is being added to B.C.’s parks by legislation...
