Forestry

The Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) is currently working to revamp how it allocates Crown land, a process which may end up including communities as a partner in the new model.

Despite a flurry of pre-election announcements that paved the way for a new value-added operation in Atikokan, pieces of the plan began unraveling when the local particleboard mill filed for creditor protection October 10.

There could be a day in the distant future when former mine sites are filled with large pine trees blowing in the breeze, instead of barren expanses of rock and sand.

As the debate rages on about what should be done to quell the forest crisis, a movement is growing to enable communities to control wood allocation. One such voice is that of John Kapel Jr., owner of Timmins-based Little John Enterprises.

Upsala's Cliffside Resort is not the golf mecca that, Hilton Head, South Carolina is.

St. Marys Paper Corp. has emerged one of the Northern Ontario's forest industry survivors. With new local ownership in place, the once-bankrupt Sault Ste. Marie super calender mill resumed full production on all three paper machines in early August.

A northeastern Ontario mill town will be the epi-centre of a movement to commercially harvest the wealth of Northern Ontario’s alternative bio-products on a regional scale. With $1.

Plantation-grown willow and poplar crops may be the future feedstock for 'green' power generation in the North.

Though the 2005 withdrawal of Tembec from the local economy is still a fresh wound for many in Smooth Rock Falls, a Quebec-based company’s plans for an independent $7.2 million value-added cedar facility are a healing salve, the mayor says.

Superior Laminated Lumber Corp. (SLLCS) is now on its way to building a $70 million laminated veneer lumber (LVL) mill in Atikokan, after the province announced the conditional allocation of 168,000-cubic metres of Crown white birch to the company.