by Working Forest | Mar 16, 2015 | Archives
Lakeland Mills appeared to be making progress on the challenges it was facing after adding a third shift to its sawmill to process more beetle-killed pine before a dust-related explosion leveled the facility nearly three years ago, a coroner’s inquest heard...
by Working Forest | Mar 16, 2015 | Archives
A British Columbia First Nation is one step closer to exerting control over its territory in the wake of a historic Supreme Court of Canada decision last year with the announcement of several agreements with the provincial government. The Tsilhqot’in Nation became the...
by Working Forest | Mar 16, 2015 | Archives
The public and conservation groups are voicing a mixture of opposition and support for the BC government’s wolf cull that aims to kill 144 to 184 grey wolves in two separate regions. The cull began in mid-January with aerial sharp shooters in helicopters aiming...
by Working Forest | Mar 16, 2015 | Archives
One of New Brunswick’s largest producers of wood pellets plans to double production for the domestic market this year to address what’s been described as a severe shortage. Jonathan Levesque says Groupe Savoie, of Saint-Quentin, in the northwestern part of...
by Working Forest | Mar 16, 2015 | Archives
One chilly morning in October 2013, Diana Six parked her white Subaru at the edge of a pine forest in southwestern Montana’s Big Hole Valley. Beneath snow-tipped peaks, lodgepole pines in four different colors draped the hillside—a time line of carnage. The gray ones,...
by Working Forest | Mar 13, 2015 | Archives
A fire has destroyed the Kruger Inc. recycling plant in Beauharnois. The fire broke out at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday and produced a thick plume of smoke that could be seen several kilometres away. The local fire department appealed to neighbouring municipalities for...
