It’s been more than 35 years since the dreaded spruce budworm wreaked havoc on Cape Breton forests, but a group trying to better understand the bug said it is due to make a comeback. The spruce budworm is considered one of the most damaging native insects to balsam fir and spruce trees in Canada. Outbreaks…
The Northern Development Initiative Trust is rolling out a new fund to help small forestry related businesses research and develop new technologies and techniques. The fund will provide up to $1 million dollars in grants over a two year period for small and medium sized companies and community forests involved in logging, processing and transporting …
DNA testing of wood from high-value bigleaf maple trees has led to the landmark prosecution of four timber thieves in the United States. Researchers at the University of Adelaide in South Australia were approached in 2012 by officers from the US Forest Service following the felling and theft of bigleaf maples from the Gifford Pinchot…
Momentum in Canada’s export sector continued in January, an indication that an export-driven recovery is already underway for the Canadian economy. The volume of exports expanded 8.8 per cent in the past year, and in dollar terms, Canada exported $46 billion of merchandise, a 7.3 per cent increase since last year, according to figures from Statistics…
A provincial cabinet minister says there may have been some lobbying at a recent forestry industry reception for MLAs, an event that highlights the lack of a lobbyist registry in New Brunswick. It’s been more than eight years after a Liberal government promised to establish a lobbyist registry, and members of the legislature are still…
A First Nations man and a small group of supporters have camped out near Benny, Ont. to protest against logging in the area. Clyde McNichol and his wife Barbara have set up camp by the small town just an hour north of Sudbury. They’ve been there since Saturday. They intend to stay until the end of the week. For the past…
Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre and FPInnovations are launching the first-ever “ARCTIC Challenge” in the forestry sector, which will elicit proposals from cleantech innovators on solutions to current environmental challenges in the sector. A potential challenge could focus on remote sensing solutions for conducting forest inventories. Remote sensing would not only reduce costs by up to 75%…
As you prepare for the March 3 meeting of First Ministers to discuss Canada’s climate change policy framework, we are writing to suggest your government’s consideration of a “Carbon First” principle for infrastructure spending and procurement policy decisions. This information is also being provided to your respective environment Ministers. We are a group of organizations…
An Ontario judge has ruled that accounting regulators can pursue disciplinary action against former Sino-Forest Corp. chief financial officer David Horsley, who is facing a possible two-year suspension from working as an accountant. Mr. Horsley argued that the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario (CPAO) should not be allowed to hold a hearing in his case…
In this entry, we are going to look at some of the behind-the-scenes economics that are quietly whirring away in the background before any tree gets cut down or any log gets sliced up. The forests in the NW region of Pennsylvania are almost all privately owned. The land owners will put the timber rights…