by Working Forest | May 14, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
WorkSafeBC has established a “risk analysis unit” to better predict new trends in workplace hazards since the two fatal northern B.C. sawmill explosions, a coroner’s inquest in Prince George heard Tuesday. Historically, WorkSafeBC has relied on data...
by Working Forest | May 13, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Making a small effort today will make a huge difference in the future. This morning, Environment Minister Scott Moe unveiled the province’s forest renewal project for the year. It involves planting 2.2 million seedlings in areas of the province currently not...
by Working Forest | May 12, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Blight has made the American chestnut, once “the dominant tree in the canopy,” a rare sight in the forests of the East. Now some researchers hope to save the tree by giving it a last-ditch genetic modification, reports David Biello for Scientific...
by Working Forest | May 11, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
The managed forest initiative, established in cooperation with World Wildlife Fund China, is a multi-year plan that brings Apple closer to its goal of achieving net-zero impact on the world’s virgin fiber. As the world’s largest timber importer, China will...
by Working Forest | May 6, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Tembec relates some of the challenges of bringing the company’s new turbine online in its quarterly report for the period ending in March 2015. Total construction cost for the cogen project at the company’s Temiscaming pulp and paper complex in Quebec had reached $272...
by Working Forest | May 5, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Henry Yorke Mann figured among British Columbia’s pioneer organic architects, but of a markedly different strand from his more famous peers such as Fred Hollingsworth. Not content to merely avoid crass commercial work, Mr. Mann embraced what might be called “extreme...
