by Working Forest | Jan 22, 2016 | Archives
I have always been a fan of poetry – not this modern nonsense that passes for poetry, but the old-fashioned kind with rhyming verses and iambic pentameter. My contention is, if it doesn’t rhyme, it is not poetry. Of course, like most prejudices, this one...
by Working Forest | Jan 22, 2016 | Archives
The Western Larch can live for hundreds of years and grow to over 200 feet, but the oldest Larch trees in northern British Columbia’s Bulkley Valley are only about four feet tall. In fact, the nearest full grown Western Larch is nearly 900 kilometers south by the US...
by Working Forest | Jan 22, 2016 | Archives
It was not a rah-rah tone that Premier Christy Clark took when she spoke at the BC Natural Resources Forum on Wednesday. She co-hosts the annual Prince George trade show and convention dedicated to the combined industrial sectors, and her yearly address sometimes...
by Working Forest | Jan 22, 2016 | Archives
If you like to take a walk in the woods around Campbell River you have probably come across old railway grades, or even remnants of old trestles. The Museum at Campbell River’s new temporary exhibit brings the time when those railways were built and in operation back...
by Working Forest | Jan 22, 2016 | Archives
Researchers published a paper last month in the journal Nature Climate Change predicting widespread death of needleleaf evergreen trees in the Southwest United States by the year 2100 due to global warming. Trees have already suffered mightily as historic drought...
