Spring Burning to begin
BC Wildfire Service and local crews are ramping up to burn piles of woody debris and to conduct planned burns over the next six
Spring burning to begin
BC Wildfire Service and local crews are ramping up to burn piles of woody debris and to conduct planned burns over the next six
Workshop Presentations -Wildfires on Community Forests: Preparedness, Management and Recovery
March 11th – 13th, 2019 Williams Lake Panel discussions included: Impacts of fire Preparedness and forest management for fire suppression Fire recovery Changing paradigms to manage
Talking with Dave Belyea about FPInnovations’ commercial thinning workshops
The workshops focused on alternative logging systems such as commercial thinning in second-growth stands and partial cutting in older stands that have operating constraints
‘The Issue with Tissue’
U.S. plush toilet paper use wiping out Canada’s forests, flushing away the future: report The voracious use of toilet paper in the United States
B.C.’s northernmost municipality hopes community ownership of forest can bring a community revival
The northernmost municipality in B.C. was once home to companies that made eight million chopsticks daily, produced untold strand boards for housing and sawmills
Outland Youth Employment Program to offer youth skills training
A fledgling youth development program will fly again this summer. The Outland Youth Employment Program (OYEP) ran its first summer of skills training and
Igniting community generosity, one firewood permit at a time
Every year in early December, TimberWest gets the opportunity to recognize important local community groups in the Lake Cowichan area thanks to the hard
Promising to be North America’s most advanced, fully integrated, multi-species mass timber manufacturing facility
Construction to start in a few weeks on Kalesnikoff’s $35 million project Construction is set to begin in just a few weeks on Kalesnikoff
FireSmartBC launches a new website
The BC FireSmart Committee has launched a new website for all things FireSmart in BC. The website includes resources such as: documents like FCCRP
BC First Nations Forestry Council Announces Appointment of New CEO
Dr. Charlene Higgins, as the First Nations Forestry Council’s new Chief Executive Officer BC First Nations Forestry Council February 1, 2019 North Vancouver, BC –We
Alberni Valley Community Forest presents city with $150,000
Alberni Valley News February 13, 2019 The Alberni Valley Community Forest Corporation (AVCF) continues to pay dividends for the City of Port Alberni. Jim
How do you ship a 300 million-year-old tree stump? Very carefully
Will join the new “Dawn of Life” gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum In the technical shop at the Museum of Natural History in Halifax,
B.C. forests contribute ‘hidden’ carbon emissions that dwarf official numbers, report says
“Uncounted forest emissions” represent a major hole in B.C.’s climate plan and show the need for a provincial forest emissions-reduction strategy, according to a new
Restoring Healthy Forests, Supporting Communities – Chetwynd’s Community Forest
Recovery & Planning After Wildfires …While the forests of BC have evolved and adapted to experience wildfires as a natural agent of disturbance, it
Restrictions on B.C. log exports don’t make a lot of sense
Thoughts from Peter Pearse, retired UBC Resource Economist Exporting raw logs remains highly controversial in B.C. because of the forest industry’s economic importance and
Premier announces big changes to revitalize the coastal forest sector
Premier John Horgan, speaking at the Truck Loggers convention, revealed plans to reform the forest industry by curtailing log exports (amongst other policy changes), with the goal of
Student Ranger Program accepting applications for 2019 season
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change StrategyGovernment of British Columbia January 16, 2019 Young adults interested in learning a diverse range of job skills
Forest policy reforms to rebuild coastal forest sector
Changes to forest policy as a result of the Coast Forest Sector Revitalization Initiative, were announced by Premier John Horgan at the annual Truck