by Working Forest | May 15, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
Investors in lumber stocks are feeling dismayed at the sector’s recent price performance. Confounding bullish expectations, prices are well off their recent highs. Investors must feel like the parents of a super-star high school student who inexplicably is at risk of...
by Working Forest | May 15, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
While it may seem like contrary to its primary function, Vancouver Island University’s (VIU) Forestry Department has announced it’s going paperless. An article in the VIU newsletter said that in September first-year students enrolled in VIU’s Forest Resources...
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...
