Northern Ontario’s logging roads form a vast but often overlooked network that supports forestry operations, remote communities, and year-round access to the North. This article explores how these industrial routes are built, maintained, and used, and why they remain essential infrastructure for both the forest sector and the region’s wilderness economy.
The plywood mill closure in Bingen, Washington, will lay off 81 workers as industry shifts toward modernization. Nearby facilities plan to expand and offer new
Viking Lumber, Alaska’s last Sitka spruce sawmill, supplies wood for Steinway pianos and more, but faces an uncertain future as timber access declines.
In the ongoing softwood lumber trade conflict, the United States has moved forward with its plans to significantly raise the tariff on Canadian softwood lumber imports, now imposing a 14.54 percent duty as additional tariffs, including new tariffs and subsidy tariffs, bringing the total tariffs to this level. The duties, or tariffs, on softwood lumber…
lumber prices are anticipated to reach 599.50 USD per 1000 board feet by this quarter’s end and are expected to rise to 640.14 USD in a year’s time.
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Hornepayne Lumber and Hornepayne Power are receiving a $4 million equity investment from an alliance of three First Nation communities in northeastern Ontario. The investment group, Northeast Superior First Nation Investment LP, is taking a 30 per cent ownership stake in the dimensional lumber mill and co-generation plant, according to a report in Northern Ontario…
Vancouver-based market research firm Wood Markets has been purchased by Forest Economic Advisors, based in Massachusetts. A statement from Wood Markets says the team in Vancouver will enhance FEA’s current products and services with more depth in terms of international supply trends and market dynamics, and will provide more strategic analysis in global costs and…
Russia has emerged as one of the winners from the trade dispute between Canada and the U.S over lumber, the Globe and Mail reports. U.S. government data shows that the nation is importing more softwood lumber from overseas since it imposed tariffs on Canadian suppliers, making them more expensive. Russian shipments are reported to be…
VANCOUVER – West Fraser Timber will acquire the operations of the Gilman Companies from the Howard Gilman Foundation and other shareholders for approximately US$430 million. The Gilman Companies are comprised of six sawmills and a finger‑joint mill in Florida and Georgia, as well as an administrative office in St. Marys, Georgia. The acquisition is a…