by Working Forest | Dec 17, 2015 | Archives
It starts as fluff on the side of a beech tree’s smooth grey bark. Pinpricks of white wax dot the tree; sometimes sparsely, other times it nearly covers the trunk. That’s the scale insect, digging in – opening up the tree’s bark – and is the first step to beech bark...
by Working Forest | Dec 17, 2015 | Archives
Columbia Forest Products is reopening its Rutherglen veneer mill, east of North Bay, after a five-year shutdown. Gary Gillespie, vice-president of Columbia’s Northern Operations, announced Dec. 15 that Columbia is in the “intermediate stages” of preparations to...
by Working Forest | Dec 17, 2015 | Archives
Resolute Forest Products Inc. (NYSE: RFP) (TSX: RFP) responds to misleading media statements by third parties regarding the U.S. Department of Commerce’s final order for countervailing duties on supercalendered paper from Canada. Contrary to those misleading...
by Working Forest | Dec 17, 2015 | Archives
Northern Pulp says air pollution from the stacks at its pulp mill in Pictou County are now fully below environmental thresholds established by the Nova Scotia government. “We are in compliance and we intend to stay there,” general manager Bruce Chapman...
by Working Forest | Dec 17, 2015 | Archives
The city is expected to start permitting six-storey wood frame construction in early 2016. Saskatoon’s current building code limits structures to four storeys. This initiative intends to satisfy customer interest and increase urban density through the use of mid-rise...
by Working Forest | Dec 17, 2015 | Archives
Drought could kill vast swaths of forests around the world if global warming isn’t contained, new research suggests. That’s in part because a fundamental structure found in trees may limit how much they can adapt to parched conditions. What’s more,...
