CapRadio, California State University –When ash began landing in Nate Stephenson’s yard 30 miles west of a fire burning in Sequoia National Park this summer, he knew the trees he’s studied for four decades were in trouble. “I started to see some giant sequoia ash falling and that’s when I knew it was going to be…
THE CHRONICLE HERALD — Northern Pulp intends to pitch a redesigned effluent treatment plant early in the New Year. The Pictou County kraft pulp mill idled in January in order to comply with the Boat Harbour Act, which mandated the closure of its effluent treatment plant. Premier Stephen McNeil refused to extend the Boat…
AUBURN, Ala. – Auburn University Alumni Professor Daowei Zhang has been named associate dean of research in Auburn’s School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences following an internal search. He began in the role on Nov. 20. Zhang, the George W. Peake Jr. Professor of Forest Economics and Policy, began his career as an assistant professor…
Every 6 minutes our forests grow enough wood to build an 18-storey apartment building. Advanced engineered wood materials and sophisticated fabrication technologies are re-shaping the ways buildings are planned, designed, and constructed. These advances in wood construction technology are also facilitating increasingly larger, and taller, wood structures that will change how we build our cities…
The Wood Design & Building Awards is the only program to award excellence in architecture in which wood plays a significant role. As a result, winning architectural projects are featured in the Winter Edition of Wood Design & Building magazine. Award winners are a diverse group of architects, engineers, and creators and embody a range…
The B.C. ministry with the biggest name and footprint in provincial history is being broken up as part of a reform of rural and resource development, Premier John Horgan says. Newly elected Stikine MLA Nathan Cullen has been assigned the task of reorganizing what is now officially known as the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural…
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, GLOBE NEWSWIRE — Conifex Timber Inc. has announced that the Toronto Stock Exchange has accepted Conifex’s notice of intention to make a normal course issuer bid for its common shares through the facilities of the TSX or any other Canadian public marketplace or alternative trading system. On December 1, 2020, Conifex may…
REGINA — The Saskatchewan government is welcoming a decision that will see a reduction of duties imposed on the province’s softwood lumber exports. The government said in a news release Thursday the decision to retroactively reduce duties from 20 percent to nine percent will result in several millions of dollars in relief to forestry…
TORONTO — The Ontario government is making gasoline that drivers use everyday cleaner by becoming the first province
BLOOMBERG— Strong homebuilding activity in North America will mean tight wood supply and demand for several more years,