by Working Forest | Mar 29, 2026 | News, Sustainability And Carbon, Trade And Policy
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has approved a $25 million loan guarantee to fund a biomass gasification plant in Calaveras County, California — a project that will convert forestry waste from National Forest lands into synthetic natural gas while removing material...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2026 | News, Sustainability And Carbon, Wildfire
The charred stands left behind by British Columbia’s record wildfire seasons look like stranded value — timber that will rot if it isn’t harvested quickly. That logic has driven a province-wide push to log burned forests faster than ever before, with...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2026 | News, Construction, Technology
The construction industry’s most persistent problems — high costs, labour shortages, and a carbon footprint that accounts for nearly 40 percent of global emissions — are not going away on their own. But a growing number of developers and engineers argue that the...
by Working Forest | Mar 28, 2026 | News, Sustainability And Carbon, Technology
A Tioga County company is on the verge of breaking ground on what could be the first commercial-scale wood-to-gasoline Pennsylvania facility in the country, after completing a critical engineering validation that confirms the project is technically sound and...
by Working Forest | Mar 26, 2026 | News, Labor And Unions, Trade And Policy
The numbers coming out of British Columbia’s forest sector in 2026 tell a story that U.S. tariffs alone cannot explain. The BC forestry crisis 2026 has been building for years — through mill closures, export collapses in multiple markets, a widening gap between...
by Working Forest | Mar 26, 2026 | News, Educational Institutions, Non Profit Organization
Virginia Tech has launched a new initiative to strengthen the forest supply chain across the commonwealth — connecting university research with the loggers, landowners, manufacturers, and communities that depend on it. The Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources...
