A judge has handed down significant fines and bans for destructive logging on Haida Gwaii earlier this decade. Gwaii Wood Products Ltd., Howe Sound Forest Products Ltd., and I. Crosby Contracting Ltd. were taken to court by the federal government over allegations of environmentally destructive logging practices over a four month period in 2010. A…
On a country back road near Penobsquis, an experiment is underway that its supporters hope will point the way to a market-driven, low-carbon economic boom for New Brunswick. A non-profit organization called Community Forests International bought more than 285 hectares of forest from a private landowner and is now harvesting it using low-impact, sustainable methods….
The lily leaf beetle, with its shiny scarlet back, “is a cute little beetle,” admits Barry Hicks, who established the Applied Entomology Lab at the College of the North Atlantic (CNA) in 2008. But it’s a ravenous bugger, too. If your garden is full of lilies, “they will eat them right down to the ground,”…
Designed by Vancouver-based Michael Green Architecture (MGA) in conjunction with architect-of-record DLR Group, the seven storey office building in Minneapolis’ North Loop neighbourhood is the largest mass timber building in the United States. When developer Hines approached MGA with the project, they envisioned T3 as a unique model of new-office building; an opportunity to offer…
The Ontario forest industry is hoping to find a middle ground as their exemption from Ontario’s Endangered Species Act nears expiration in mid-2018. Planning forester Scott McPherson said even though the industry is exempt from ESA, the sector adheres to unique regulations for managing and caring for species at risk. At Nipissing Forest Resource Management…
The U.S. International Trade Commission says it has found there was a reasonable indication that softwood lumber products from Canada materially injured American producers, setting the stage for the imposition of preliminary duties that softwood producers fear could impact Canadian jobs. The trade commission announced Friday that it made an initial determination of harm from…
Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Minister Steve Thomson has issued a statement in response to today’s ruling by the U.S. International Trade Commission in the ongoing softwood lumber dispute between Canada and the United States. The U.S. International Trade Commission announced a finding of ‘injury’ against Amercian lumber producers. Because of the finding, the U.S….
Have you ever wondered which British Columbia companies incorporate the most innovation and the latest technology? Would it surprise you to know that tech touches nearly every industry in B.C.? British Columbians may be interested to discover forestry company Canfor is near the very top of the list of tech adopters. Canfor is one of…
John Redfield watches with pride as his son moves a laser-guided precision saw the size of a semi-truck wheel into place over a massive panel of wood. Redfield’s fingers are scarred from a lifetime of cutting wood and now, after decades of decline in the logging business, he has new hope that his son, too,…
Global trade of softwood lumber is forecasted to increase by almost 14 per cent in 2016, driven by higher wood demand in China and the US, according to the Wood Resource Quarterly. Global lumber trade The World Trade Organization (WTO) reported in September that world trade will expand by only 1.7 per cent in 2016,…