Product Watch
TIGERCAT RELEASES 602 GRAPPLE SKIDDER
By / Tigercat News Quick, compact and fuel efficient, the 602 grapple skidder is ideal for high value selective logging in tight or challenging terrain. […]
Month: February 2020
Features
‘Last ditch’ effort for harvest plan consensus
By / TJ Martinell It’s been five years since the Washington Farm Forestry Association (WFFA) first submitted its alternative harvest plan to the Forest Practices Board (FPB) as part of […]
News
WorkBC survey hopes to help with downturn of forestry sector
By Morgan Hampton, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Business owners, employed and unemployed Merrittonians were invited to take part in a Thriving Communities Labour Market survey earlier […]
Features
Send in the army? Why one expert says that would be a 'ludicrous' response to rail blockades
Over seven years ago, two books written by retired lieutenant-colonel Douglas Bland offered some sobering warnings about the future of the Crown-Indigenous relationship — warnings […]
Features
Nova Scotia announces rebate for investments in forestry operations
By / Adam MacInnis The Nova Scotia government has launched a program it believes will help the forestry sector adopt new technology and approaches to […]
Features
Forestry workers hold budget-day truck convoy, rally at B.C. legislature
BY SIMON LITTLE GLOBAL NEWS Hundreds of people gathered on the lawn and steps of the B.C. legislature Tuesday to support the province’s struggling forestry sector. The […]
News
Syracuse plans to turn down city heat by planting 70,000 trees
By Glenn Coin | gcoin@syracuse.com Syracuse, N.Y. – Syracuse is trying to ease the impacts of two of the nation’s biggest problems – income inequality and climate […]
News
Staring down an immediate crisis, Quesnel keeps eye on forestry's longer term future
By DERRICK PENNER QUESNEL — On the industrial outskirts of town, C&C Wood Products kept running its operations through a cruel summer of layoffs, production […]
Features
Tentative deal reached in eight-month forestry labour dispute
By / Cindy E. Harnett / Times Colonist A tentative agreement in an eight-month forestry labour dispute has been struck, days after the province re-appointed special mediators. […]
Features
Oregon must act now on wildfire
By Mail Tribune Editorial Board The Governor’s Council on Wildfire Response spent the better part of a year looking at wildfire prevention, firefighting and forest health […]