Sault Ste. Marie Region Conservation Authority is updating its Managed Forest Plan to maintain the health of its forests and to remain active in the provincial Managed Forest Tax Incentive Program. “This is the third managed forest plan for the SSMRCA. The most recent Managed Forest Plan expires on Dec. 31, 2017,” Christine Ropeter, assistant…
Greenpeace, after repeated attacks against Canada’s biggest forest products company for “destroying,” Canada’s boreal forests, now says that it was merely stating an opinion about the logging activity, not a fact. After years of weathering attacks on its forestry practices, Montreal-based Resolute Forest Products Inc. last year sued Greenpeace in United States District Court in…
The Dryden Mill’s parent company is offering to pay for an independent expert to assess whether mercury is still leeching from the site into the Wabigoon River. Domtar spokeswoman Bonny Skene issued the statement to media in the aftermath of a report from scientist John Rudd on behalf of Grassy Narrows First Nation that claims mercury levels in the…
An openly partisan coalition of labour unions and internationally funded environmental activists opposed to BC timber harvesting, are once again promoting the myth that a ban on log exports is the best solution to ensure more logs are milled here in BC. This idea is callously disrespectful to the thousands of hardworking rural men and…
During the open line show on CBC radio Feb. 27 most of the people phoning in were against the export of raw logs as was the guest, Ben Parfitt, who has written extensively on the topic. For more information, I recommend Mr. Parfitt’s June 2007 article Wood Waste and Log Exports’ on the BC coast….
The challenge is clear. While British Columbia’s forest sector has a distinct advantage in market development, there are untapped opportunities related to innovation. The Province is announcing today the launch of the Clean-Tech Innovation Strategy for the B.C. Forest Sector. The strategy, done in partnership with FPInnovations, will help maximize the value of B.C.’s forest…
Whitecourt and area residents will have to be extra careful with their campfires earlier on this year. Wildfire season in Alberta is starting a month earlier than usual — on March 1 rather than April 1. “That gives the opportunity for our crews to get their equipment ready and do recruitment when they need to…
Softwood lumber strife between Canada and forestry titans to the south is certainly burning upheadlines this year. The buzz on Thursday was about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s telephone chat with U.S.President Donald Trump – Canadian Press reported that softwood lumber negotiations were atopic of discussion, as a follow-up to the leaders first White House meeting…
B.C. Timber Sales’ Okanagan office made so many errors in required reporting on reforestation work that an audit by B.C.’s forestry watchdog deemed them non-compliant, according to a report released Tuesday. The B.C. Forest Practices Board audit found that on the ground, reforestation and silviculture work was meeting required objectives for its operations within the…
Wildfires that swept through the northern Alberta forest near Fort McMurray last May continue to frustrate loggers trying to harvest wood from trees killed by the fire before insects and rot make it unusable. The blaze, which destroyed 1,800 single family homes in the city, burned so hot as high winds pushed it through the…