GRIST — In mid-August, the leader of the Republic of Sakha, in Russia, told residents not to go outside, and to avoid breathing unfiltered air if at all possible. Wildfire smoke filled the streets of Yakutsk, reducing visibility to less than a block. Smoke spread to the North Pole for the first time ever. It…
NORTH CANTON, Ohio, — The Timken Company, a world leader in engineered bearings and power transmission products, has announced Carlisle® brand belts will now officially go to market as Timken Belts. “We’re excited to take this next step of fully converting the business to carry the Timken Belts brand on the belts themselves, aligning the name with…
CBC NEWS — Scenes from this summer’s devastating wildfires in southern Europe reverberated around the world. Acres of olive groves reduced to charcoal. Livestock lying dead and burnt in blackened fields. “I am ruined,” one shepherd in Italy’s Sardinia region told RAI, the country’s public broadcaster. “Everything of mine burned. Everything.” On the Greek island of…
Most of the forest will be planted with radiata pine. Photo: 123RF / Lakeview Image Library The company which owns retail giant Ikea has bought 5500 hectares of Otago farmland to plant into forest. Ingka Group was approved to make the purchase of Wisp Hill by the Overseas Investment Office in August. A lease-back requirement will allow…
IWPA, Alexandria, Virginia – The International Wood Products Association (IWPA) has announce that Brad McKinney has been selected to serve as the new executive director of the organization. He assumes the role on September 13. McKinney brings a broad range of experience to IWPA, with a strong background in government affairs and public policy from…
OREGON CITY, Ore., The Softwood Lumber Board (SLB) has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that builds upon the existing collaborative relationship between the SLB and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Under the MOU and effective immediately, the SLB and USDA expand a public-private partnership that seeks to grow demand for…
THE GUARDIAN — Native forest logging in Western Australia will end at the start of 2024, the state government has announced, in a decision hailed as historic by the premier, Mark McGowan, and conservation campaigners. Hardware giant Bunnings has brought forward its commitment to not sell VicForests timber unless it is FSC approved following a federal court…
Ritchie Bros. has announced that its chief operating officer, Jim Kessler, will take on the additional role of president, effective immediately. “The president role will align our global revenue, services, operations, and critical support functions under Jim’s leadership,” said Ritchie Bros. CEO Ann Fandozzi. “As we accelerate our growth strategy as a company, we need…
CBC NEWS — A little over a year ago, the first protesters arrived at the Fairy Creek watershed in southern Vancouver Island to stop logging in the old-growth forest. Today, the blockade — which could soon become the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history, by the number of arrests — is representative of…
LEWISTON TRIBUNE — Western white pine, as a species, was known as king pine in the early 1900s because of its dominance on the landscape and the outsized role it played in the timber industry. And this particular tree was the biggest of the big, the largest known western white pine, a distinction for which…