A forest fire burning 68 kilometres northwest of Kenora is threatening two lodges, and is very close to the Caribou Falls hydroelectric dam on the English River. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry estimates Kenora fire #005 to be at about 200 hectares. MNRF Communication specialist Jonathon Scott says 10 fire ranger crews are assigned to Kenora #005. “Values protection has been set…
The B.C. government is distributing more than $1.7 million in grant money to help control the spread of invasive plant species around the province. The money will be divvied up into 29 grants and given to regional invasive species committees, local governments and the Invasive Species Council of British Columbia. This funding is in addition to…
The NAWLA Toronto regional meeting will feature two expert speakers for this afternoon event. Peter Brown, Deloitte Peter E. Brown is a Senior Practice Partner at Deloitte Canada, with 30 years’ experience serving public and private clients in Canada and internationally. Peter served as Managing Partner, Atlantic, followed by Managing Partner for our mid-market practice…
Apple is partnering with an environmental nonprofit to purchase roughly 36,000 acres of private forestland, which will be sustainably harvested and used in Apple’s packaging. The land — two tracts in Maine and North Carolina that, combined, are roughly two and a half times the size of Manhattan — will be managed by The Conservation Fund….
A pair of trumpeter swans has returned to Kangienos Lake in the Ghost Valley, raising residents’ hopes that the birds will halt the logging planned in the immediate area. The large birds, which are a species of special concern in Alberta, returned earlier this month after spending time there last year. “They’re here,” said Lori Haywood, a landowner in…
Contract talks between Domtar and 550 Unifor members at the Dryden pulp mill and woodlands operations are headed to conciliation. Negotiations begin on Monday. Contract negotiations broke down in late January and Unifor then applied for conciliation for 225 maintenance, production and office employees and over 325 log harvesting, chipping and trucking members. Unifor national…
Do newer mass timber products hold the key to safer, taller wood buildings in the United States? The American Wood Council thinks so, and is partnering with the nation’s leading fire-protection group to find out. Jumpstarted by a $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the council will conduct research on the fire…
On April 9th in Toronto at their annual general meeting the Ontario Professional Foresters Association presented awards to members who have made significant contributions to the forest industry. The following are this year’s award recipients. Mike Barker of Sault Ste. Marie, recently received the Bayly Award from the Ontario Professional Foresters Association (OPFA) during its…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released its Annual Energy Outlook 2015 (AEO2015), which presents updated projections for U.S. energy markets through 2040 based on six different cases that reflect updated scenarios for crude oil prices. The six cases include the reference case, low and high economic growth, low and high oil price, and high…
It’s not stretching the point too far to say that 12 months of the year Weyerhaeuser in Columbus makes diapers, but one month out of the year it collects them, too. From March 4-25, employees at Columbus Cellulose Fibers and its Lowndes County partner Columbus Modified Fiber, along with many of their contractors and vendors,…