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Are forest climate mitigation strategies one-size-fits-all?
The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment lists sustainable harvesting as having the most significant climate mitigation benefit for the world’s forests. This… read more…
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Drought Could Kill Off Many of the World’s Trees
Drought could kill vast swaths of forests around the world if global warming isn’t contained, new research suggests. That’s in part because… read more…
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Wood a massive opportunity
Since international leaders reached a historic climate change agreement at the United Nations meeting in Paris earlier this month, the… read more…
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Opinion: Serious about addressing climate change? Build with wood
Since international leaders reached a historic climate change agreement at the United Nations meeting in Paris this month, the conversations… read more…
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Canada, Japan appear to have different understanding on raw log deal
The side deal that Canada and Japan cut to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement on Canadian restrictions to raw… read more…
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Forestry managers have no power to stop damaging logging: watchdog
On a routine basis, district forest managers raise red flags over forestry practices that pose potential public safety hazards, threaten… read more…
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COUNTING CARIBOU- Santa can exhale.
Despite declarations by special interest environmental groups that there is a caribou crisis in Ontario, a review of Ministry of… read more…
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FOREST INDUSTRY WELCOMES PARIS AGREEMENT ON CLIMATE CHANGE
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is pleased with the landmark global climate deal reached in Paris including its… read more…
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Logging ban urged to protect Vancouver Island old growth forests
Communities along the West Coast of Vancouver Island say the provincial government needs to step in to save the ancient,… read more…
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Cross-border issues abound in Montana congressional delegation’s letters to Canada
Montana’s congressional delegation is still waiting for answers to letters they sent regarding cross-border issues with Canada, but that could… read more…
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The tough men of timber: Black and white photos capture the arduous lives of 1800s lumberjacks who felled enormous trees using only hand tools and brute strength
Lumberjack style has recently come back in vogue, with city slickers and suburbanites donning the flannel shirts of the profession… read more…
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Urban jungle: wooden high-rises change city skylines as builders ditch concrete
The concrete jungle has a rival: forests. Two urban building projects, in New York City and Portland, Oregon, will be… read more…
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Pine Beetle wreaks havoc in Hinton, AB
Ryan Zapisocki swings a leg over his skidoo, fires up the engine and rides into the forest. The snow is… read more…
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B.C. resources make a lot of our Christmas gifts possible
When the holiday season rolls around, it’s easy to forget that without B.C. resources such as wood products and minerals,… read more…
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Lifting carbon tax freeze could burn B.C. industries, critics warn
During the recent climate talks in Paris, Premier Christy Clark struck a pose as one of the belles of the… read more…
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Saskatchewan, Manitoba at top of mediocre class in caribou report
Manitoba and Saskatchewan come out on top of a mediocre class in a new review of how Canada’s provinces and… read more…
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McKENNA: Angry U.S. lumber lobby will cast pall over Trudeau’s ‘sunny ways’
A key line in the recent throne speech declared: “The Government will strengthen its relationship with allies, especially with our… read more…
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Northern Pulp Boat Harbour cleanup ‘realistic’ but price tag not clear
The manager of the Boat Harbour cleanup project in Pictou County says it will take a couple of years before it’s known… read more…
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Woodfibre LNG seeks to cut construction costs to offset gas-price drop in China
Woodfibre LNG hopes to cut the cost of its proposed $1.8-billion liquefied natural gas project near Squamish to offset a… read more…
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Forest sector making gains
After a year of contracting employment, Northeastern Ontario will slowly begin to find its economic footing in 2016, though progress… read more…
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Ben Parfitt: Here’s how cutting log exports could create B.C. jobs
Seven years ago, workers at the Harmac pulp mill near Nanaimo defied the odds and hung onto their jobs at… read more…
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NZ forestry tech in demand in US, Canada
Designed to reduce the high number of serious accidents in the forestry industry, the technology will be demonstrated to North… read more…
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Cellufuel turns lumber into renewable biofuel
A Nova Scotia company says it’s the first in the world to create biofuel completely out of a forestry product.… read more…
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Opposition to Ancient Forest as park
At a meeting last week, some McBride residents spoke with concerns against the idea of creating a provincial park around… read more…
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Safer tree-falling technology coming to BC
Leading logging experts heading to Vancouver Logging Conference The tables are about to be turned on logging contractors in British… read more…