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Habitat For Humanity and SFI team up to put roofs over heads
The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) and Habitat for Humanity Canada are helping to put a roof over the heads of… read more…
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COUNTING CARIBOU
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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Sustainable Forestry Initiative aim to Break a World Record for a Cause
People of all ages and backgrounds from across the U.S. and Canada came together Wednesday to break the Guinness World… read more…
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Northern Pulp blasts N.S. rules
Northern Pulp alleges its most recent industrial approval is an attempt by the provincial government to “impose conditions” that require… read more…
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Forest Capital of Canada Recognition Ceremony
The Canadian Forestry Association (CFA) and the Canadian Institute of Forestry (CIF/IFC) presented the community of Constance Lake First Nation,… read more…
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B.C.’s controversial wolf cull program to save caribou will continue
British Columbia’s controversial wolf control program will have to go on for at least a decade, and other animals may… read more…
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Citizen group coordinates pole line picket
Island Timberlands, the company engaged in timber harvest in Lot 450, is not planning to hold any public forums to… read more…
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B.C.’s proactive wildfire strategy ‘absolutely missing’, says Quesnel mayor
The B.C. government is not doing enough to prevent catastrophic wildfires and proactive fire management is “absolutely missing” in its… read more…
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Fire has little impact on forest sector
The Little Bobtail Lake forest fire may have had only a limited impact on that area’s fibre supply. Initial estimates… read more…
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B.C. Forestry research facility receives $5.6 million in federal funding
A federal infrastructure funding announcement on May 15 included $5.6 million to upgrade the Pacific Forestry Centre in Victoria, a… read more…
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Growing northern B.C. wildfire believed to be man-made
The RCMP has joined an investigation into a wildfire in northern B.C. over the possibility arson was involved. The police… read more…
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Wood costs push Tembec to suspend sawmill operations in Quebec
Tembec is suspending operations at its three sawmills in Quebec due to the high cost of wood supply in the… read more…
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Tolko rolling out plans to fix soot storm
Residents of Palisades mobile park home in Spallumcheen say on windy days, they feel like prisoners in their homes. The… read more…
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Grexit and the mysterious case of the near doubling of Fortress Paper shares
A mysterious spike in the shares of a small Canadian pulp and paper stock is rumoured to foretell an exit… read more…
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Eyes in the woods
British Columbia’s Forest Practices Board (FPB) is 20 years old. It was created in December 1994 to provide independent oversight… read more…
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Media access to forest fires limited
Forest fires as news stories have always been popular. That has never changed. What has changed, however, is how the… read more…
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Wood Pellet Power: A Climate Threat?
Much ado has been made of late about the advantages and, increasingly, the potential disadvantages of using wood to create energy. Figuring… read more…
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Lakeland recommendations will be taken “very seriously”, says Clark
The provincial government will take a close look at the recommendations from the coroner’s inquest into the fatal Lakeland Mills… read more…
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Water Logged: Firm Reclaims Timber Lost To Maine’s Frigid Rivers
In the north woods of Maine, Tom Shafer is bumping along on a rutted trail in his four-wheel drive truck.… read more…
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Group sues to stop Kootenai logging project
An environmental group is suing to stop a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest near Libby. The Alliance for… read more…
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Kids learning in the DIRT; forest schools challenging traditional education
People throughout western Washington are all about spending time outdoors for recreation, but what about taking education outside? Forest schools… read more…
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Prescribed fire ignited in Banff National Park
Crews started work this week on a prescribed fire in the Dormer River Valley in Banff National Park to restore the grasslands in… read more…
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Fire crews suffer setback in battle against wildfire in B.C.’s Interior
A large fire raging in British Columbia’s Central Interior has grown dramatically over a 24-hour period, reversing some of the… read more…
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Expert warns fire season in Northern B.C. getting worse
A massive wildfire in northern B.C. shows that the province’s forests are increasingly primed for such blazes because of climate… read more…
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Don Cayo: First Nations aiding development
Resource development in B.C. isn’t stalled, as many appear to fear, but rather is proceeding at a historic pace, according… read more…