by Web Editor | Jun 18, 2012 | News
Resolute Forest Products (RFP) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) are pleased to announce that Resolute has become the largest manager of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified forests in the world. The company recently certified 3.2 million hectares (7.9 million...
by Web Editor | Jun 15, 2012 | News
A quandary that threatened the existence of one of the few large sawmill operations left in Montana moved toward resolution last week. A spokeswoman said Sen. Jon Tester had just received written assurance from the U.S. Forest Service that Tricon Timber’s Aug. 12...
by Web Editor | Jun 13, 2012 | News
A committee looking for ways to boost B.C.’s dwindling store of timber is looking at logging protected areas such as old-growth forests as one way out of a supply crunch. Other options include cutting greater volumes of “marginally economic” timber and pumping up...
by Web Editor | Jun 11, 2012 | News
Among the many apartment buildings in the London borough of Hackney, the nine-story structure on the corner of Provost Street and Murray Grove stands out, its exterior a mix of white and gray tiles rather than the usual brick. But it’s what’s underneath this cladding...
by Web Editor | Jun 9, 2012 | The Issues
Is Wood Dust The New Spotted Owl Article by Dan Shell, Senior Editor, Timber Processing Following tragic and devastating explosions and fires at two British Columbia sawmills in Burns Lake and Prince George that killed four workers and injured dozens, leave it to...
by Web Editor | Jun 8, 2012 | News
It is not every day Sierra Forest Products sees logs like it saw last week — logs that had been preserved under water for the past 100 years. Cut up were two truck loads of sinker logs, logs that sink to the bottom of timber ponds, that have sat at the bottom of...
