by Working Forest | May 19, 2016 | Articles
“We’re going to have a long dry summer, I mean just look, it’s a fire waiting to happen.” That was how NDP MLA Scott Fraser described what he was seeing as he toured a cut block between Port Alberni and Lake Cowichan Wednesday. It is where massive, valuable logs have...
by Working Forest | May 19, 2016 | Articles
The fire came in waves at Howard Ewashko’s family business: once on Tuesday afternoon, again in the evening. Both times, Ewashko, his brother Craig, and a small band of workers at the sawmill north of Fort McMurray saw the “beast” of a wildfire threaten their...
by Working Forest | May 19, 2016 | Articles
The City of Winnipeg is ramping up efforts to create an inventory of ash trees. Crews are searching backyards and back lanes to count and inspect ask trees, in danger because of a devastating pest, the emerald ash borer beetle. The city says it’s not a matter of...
by Working Forest | May 19, 2016 | Articles
When the Mountain Pine Beetle (MPB) arrived in Alberta some nine or 10 years ago it hit hard. Whole areas of pine trees were red with dead or dying trees, and people everywhere were losing trees on private property, golf courses were losing trees, towns were losing...
by Working Forest | May 18, 2016 | Articles
LET’S TALK about jobs, good resource sector jobs to be more specific. However, before everyone gasps in disbelief thinking I’ve changed my mind on Ajax… I haven’t. I have nothing against mining and fully appreciate it’s’ tremendous value to the economy...
by Working Forest | May 18, 2016 | Articles
Blame the low Canadian dollar, or the tumbling price of oil, or the American housing recovery. Whichever the culprit — or whichever combination of all three — the Alberta forestry industry is happy. Alberta’s third largest industry was hit hard by the 2008...
