by Working Forest | Mar 5, 2015 | Archives
While the decline in oil prices have some holding their breath, other industries — like forestry — are exhaling just fine. Thanks to a high demand for forestry exports, a weakened Canadian dollar and the climbing price of lumber, Canada’s forestry industry can count...
by Working Forest | Mar 2, 2015 | Archives
The sawlog market in Western US has been impacted a constant increase in log exports to Asia. This upward trend was broken in 2014 and domestic log prices fell almost 10% Seattle, USA. There has been a constant upward pressure on domestic sawlog prices in the US...
by Working Forest | Mar 2, 2015 | Archives
Norway spruce and Scots pine samples have entered the vault inside a mountain on the Arctic archipelago. The frozen depository opened in 2008 and is designed to withstand all natural and human disasters. Researchers hope the tree seed samples will help monitor...
by Working Forest | Mar 2, 2015 | Archives
The province has committed to fine-tuning the way it manages Crown land in environmentally sensitive areas. On Thursday, the province announced it will postpone harvesting in designated environmentally sensitive areas until special management practices are in place,...
by Working Forest | Mar 2, 2015 | Archives
Three years after a deadly sawmill explosion at Lakeland Mills, workers and relatives of the victims say they are resigned to not getting the justice they want from an inquest that starts Monday. Coroner’s inquests are fact-finding processes and do not find fault....
by Working Forest | Mar 2, 2015 | Archives
A record fire year in the Northwest Territories in 2014 may not be an isolated occurrence, according to a professor at the University of Alberta in Edmonton who is an expert on forest fires. Historically, bad fire years are caused by conditions that may last for...
