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Canada offers more aid for Australia as bushfires burn
By / Mia Rabson · The Canadian Press Nearly 100 Canadian fire experts have been sent to Australia to help in the fight against one of the […]
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Mass timber adoption rises as B.C. builders look for speed and sustainability
By / Peter Mitham / Business in Vancouver A new year brings new beginnings, and for Penticton-based Structurlam Mass Timber Corp., that includes building on key developments from […]
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U.S. sends more than 100 firefighters to help Australia battle flames
By COLLEEN SHALBY, Los Angeles Times For the first time since 2010, the federal government is sending U.S. firefighters — including some from California — to […]
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Division of Forestry seeks public input to update Ohio’s Forest Action Plan
By Sentinel-Tribune The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Forestry is currently working on a 10-year update of Ohio’s Forest Action Plan which includes […]
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U.S. Forest Service’s Chattahoochee National Forest management project silences public input for decades
By / Southern Environmental Law Centre The U.S. Forest Service is proposing a massive forest management project in Georgia’s Chattahoochee National Forest, the state’s largest […]
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BC earmarks $875K for Interior communities affected by mill closures
By / P&PC staff The British Columbia government is providing $875,000 to 11 communities located in B.C.’s interior to help with delivery of transition services […]
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Opinion: Future bright for Canada's forest products industry despite challenging 2019
By / DEREK NIGHBOR, Saskatoon StarPhoenix For forestry workers and communities, 2019 was a challenging year. Market headwinds, cost pressures and the devastating fallout of […]
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Researchers find economic opportunity in dead Alaska cedar
By / Peter Segall, Juneau Empire As warming temperatures in Southeast Alaska continue to kill off more and more yellow cedar, a group of researchers see an […]
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Nova Scotia’s forestry industry in ‘crisis mode,’ says Colchester County wood lot owner
By Jesse Thomas, Global News Without a pulp and a paper mill like Northern Pulp, a healthy forest industry can’t survive as the two are intricately connected, […]
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Wild weather helped make niche commodities big winners in 2019
Michael Hirtzer and Ashley Robinson, Bloomberg News The trade war, wild weather and angry farmers all generated major headlines in 2019 on corn and soybeans. But […]