by Working Forest | Jun 8, 2015 | Archives
Much like his company, Peter Wijnbergen doesn’t feel the need to keep a high profile. Wijnbergen, 58, works out of an unassuming cubicle in Norbord Inc.’s head office in Toronto, like the rest of the staff. It could just as easily belong to an intern and a visitor...
by Working Forest | Jun 8, 2015 | Archives
It’s time for woodlot owners, the industry and governments to start thinking outside the woodbox. That’s the message guest speaker Peter deMarsh delivered to the Federation of Nova Scotia Woodland Owners at the association’s annual meeting at the Holiday Inn in Truro...
by Working Forest | Jun 8, 2015 | Archives
A First Nation in northern Saskatchewan evacuated 101 people Saturday due to smoke from forest fires. According to Lac La Ronge Indian Band Chief Tammy Cook-Searson on social media, those with health concerns were taken to Prince Albert as a precaution. Evacuees are...
by Working Forest | Jun 8, 2015 | Archives
Pine beetles that killed large swaths of Okanagan forest five years ago may be down, but they’re not out. The pest has infested hundreds of trees made vulnerable by the Trepanier Creek fire near Peachland in 2012. Crews felled about 400 pines along the four-kilometre...
by Working Forest | Jun 5, 2015 | Archives
When I first became involved in forestry in the 1980s there was a debate over choosing a younger harvest age which would maximize fibre production rather than produce larger dimension more valuable lumber from older forests. The rapid growth rates of young forests ...
by Working Forest | Jun 5, 2015 | Archives
Even the newest residents of Squamish likely have a sense that the forest industry is a large part of Squamish’s past, but what does it mean to Squamish today? The Squamish Chief sat down with Jeff Fisher, president and forestry manager of Sqomish Forestry LP, to talk...
