Research based on satellite imagery shows that almost all industrial activity in Canada’s intact forests is occurring on the home ranges of endangered species. A report released Tuesday by Global Forest Watch Canada says 92 per cent of the land affected supports at least one endangered species. It says 14 per cent of activity —…
A Lantzville councillor will sit on a woodlot management advisory group. At last week’s meeting, District of Lantzville councillors voted in favour of appointing Coun. Dot Neary to the Lantzville Woodlot Advisory Group, also known as LWAG. The advisory group was formed in 2014 to ensure the public could provide input, express concerns and provide…
The Forest Practices Board in British Columbia says trees have not been replanted after cutting in the Selkirk Natural Resource District near Creston. It has ordered an unnamed logging operator to develop a plan to replant in the areas it audited. Board chairman Tim Ryan says in a news release that the licensee hasn’t harvested any cutblocks…
Battling the spread of the emerald ash borer has taken its toll on the urban canopy in Hamilton, Ont. says the southern Ontario city’s manager of forestry. The invasive beetle was first discovered in Hamilton in 2009, said Le’Ann Seely, and an action plan to deal with it was approved by city council the next…
Firefighters are working to extinguish hot spots at a forest fire roughly two hours outside of Halifax. Two helicopters, nine tankers and 40 firefighters responded to the scene Tuesday. The fire started in a wooded area near Malay Falls, N.S., close to Sheet Harbour, N.S. No evacuations or injuries have been reported, and the fire,…
Provincial government plans to diversify British Columbia’s resource-based economy by developing markets and exports for Liquified Natural Gas, a project which seems to have dominated cabinet thinking in recent years, is all well and good. But in attempting to realize any dream of future diversification, nobody should lose sight of the pragmatic reality of where…
Lac Seul First Nation and Slate Falls First Nation have signed an agreement with Domtar, Weyerhaeuser, and seven independent loggers which supports resource extraction practices anticipated to benefit all parties. Lac Seul First Nation Chief Clifford Bull commented, “There are mechanisms in the agreement that benchmark opportunities and promote growth for all involved. Too often…
When Duz Cho Logging went into the sawmilling business, the First Nations company went old school, turning to bush mill technology to solve a modern-day problem. Instead of installing its modern high-production sawmill inside its building – a former finger-joint plant in the northern B.C. town of Mackenzie – Duz Cho installed it on the…
Global softwood lumber production is on pace to break the record set in 2015. That production is being driven in large part because the top 10 importing countries increased lumber imports during 2016’s first quarter. Global production is up 20% in the year’s first quarter compared with the same period in 2015. According to Wood…
Nestled in Alberta’s boreal forest, at the confluence of four waterways, is Whitecourt, population 9,600. The town sits at the metaphorical centre of Alberta’s forestry sector, which anchors a network of lumber yards, pulp mills and paper plants that stretch across the nearly two-thirds of this province that is forested. Some of the country’s largest…