by Working Forest | Aug 5, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Canfor Pulp Products insider Canfor Pulp Products Inc. bought 10,700 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Thursday, July 30th. The shares were acquired at an average price of C$12.83 per share, for a total transaction of C$137,258.53. Canfor Pulp...
by Working Forest | Aug 5, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Significant progress has been made containing the Elaho and Boulder Creek wildfires, due to the hard work of BC Wildfire Service crews who have taken advantage of reduced fire behaviour in recent days. The Elaho wildfire is now 45% contained. It’s located about 67...
by Working Forest | Jul 29, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Most of the 180 workers to be laid off in the partial shutdown at the Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Mill will still have a few months’ work remaining, their union says. The surprise announcement of an “immediate closure” of the Port Mellon plant’s paper and TMP (thermo...
by Working Forest | Jul 23, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Third-generation trucker Greg Munden of Kamloops, B.C.-based Munden Ventures, thinks his business and the log market at large are poised for growth over the next few years and he plans to be there to help. Munden Ventures can trace its roots back to post-war US. “My...
by Working Forest | Jul 17, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Sometimes, when Nelson is unrolling yet another smoky, soot-soiled fire hose, he finds a burnt, blackened stick trapped inside. “That’s what gets me,” he says. The charred twigs are a reminder of the reality of B.C.’s forest fires, of the wildlife fleeing the flames,...
by Working Forest | Jul 16, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
A couple of red pines in northeastern New Brunswick are the oldest of their kind in Atlantic Canada, by far, according to a professor and the New Brunswick Museum. “These trees have lived 300 years,” said Ben Phillips, the conservation scientist at the...
