BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has postponed logging operations at its Reed Road cutblock while it considers options. Elphinstone Logging Focus (ELF) hailed this as a victory earlier this month. “BCTS has deferred or postponed the Reed Road [Timber Sale Licence] – it has not been dropped or removed from our timber inventory,” BCTS planning forester…
In 1999, residents of the Upper Clearwater Valley and the local forest district agreed that the corridor of private and public land surrounding the road leading to Wells Gray Provincial Park had unique values. The values were documented in guidelines in a local resource use plan. The guidelines were endorsed by the district manager, who was…
Kalesnikoff Lumber has given the public until Nov. 1 to comment on its new forest stewardship plan for its licences in the Arrow Lakes and Kootenay Lake areas. The five year plan was first made public in August, and Tyler Hodgkinson, the company’s woodlands manager, presented it to the Regional District of Central Kootenay board…
It’s not just for show, you can actually take it for a spin. CBC Daybreak Kamloops got the first sneak peak into a car made out of a single piece of western red cedar. It’s all hush-hush until the big launch of it later this year. “It has a lot of character, not just a round…
The City of Montreal will spend $3.5 million to acquire a 78,500-square metre expanse of land in the West Island and add it to the protected l’Anse-à-l’Orme nature park. The property at 575 Elm Avenue in Beaconsfield is part of the Angell Woods forest. The acquisition of the land – about the size of ten CFL football fields – would…
Canada’s premiers huddled by teleconference call Thursday and agreed that everyone not facing an election campaign will attend December’s climate change summit in Paris with prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau, The Canadian Press has learned. Monday’s surprising Liberal majority has cleared the path for an invigorated Canadian presence at the United Nations climate conference, known as…
Woodfibre LNG has cleared another hurdle. On Oct. 14, the Squamish Nation (SN) voted to approve an Environmental Assessment Agreement (EAA) for the project. “This decision is one step in a multi stage process, and just to be very clear, it’s not an endorsement of the project,” said Chief Ian Campbell of the SN. In…
Restarting a sawmill and rebuilding moose populations in British Columbia’s Interior are now the focus of reconciliation talks between the provincial government and Tsilhqot’in Nation. The talks began last year after the Tsilhqot’in won title in court to 1,750 square kilometres of its territorial lands in the remote Nemiah Valley. Aboriginal Relations Minister John Rustad…
Viewed from the outside, the six-storey luxury condominium complex slated to go up at 1884 Queen Street East will look more or less like any other well-tailored small development in a contemporary style. Its modestly grey fibre-cement cladding will likely help the building blend into the conservative Beaches neighbourhood round about. Heartwood, as this project…
First there were the Black Liquor Boondoggles, now there’s the Supercalendered Scam. The U.S. government’s attempts to prop up the country’s ailing paper industry once again are going to ridiculous lengths, this time with U.S. consumers, printers, and publishers footing the bill. Last week, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed duties on imports of supercalendered (SC)…