Forestry

A new value-added mill in the Hearst area will begin producing furniture components for a major international furniture maker starting this fall. Industries LacWood Inc.

Ontario’s forest industry is moving to a new value-added economy, and while the sector is enduring some agonizing transitional pains, changes are inevitable, says Ontario’s natural resources minister.

A forestry stakeholders group might not have achieved total consensus on what ails Northern Ontario’s struggling forestry sector, but almost all agree Queen’s Park needs to act quickly to come to the industry’s aid.

Three Northern Ontario forestry companies have united with Aboriginal communities to offer youth a chance to gain insight into wood harvesting operations. Bowater Canada, Tembec and Weyerhaeuser in conjunction with Outland Reforestation Inc.

If nothing else, Lakehead University can see the forest for the degrees. The Thunder Bay school will be accepting students into its third doctorate-level program this September.

If a piece of machinery falls in the forest, does anybody hear? Or, if a piece of equipment is scheduled to work an eight-hour shift, how much time is spent actually operating? That is a timeless question a revolutionary new technology is helping to

Brad Sutherland knows he has his work cut out for him.

With the end of one court battle in the cross-border softwood lumber dispute coming as soon as April, Tembec business development manager Paul Krabbe, who has been “very close” to the case for over four years, is looking forward to a level playing fi

They are juicy, low to the ground and full of anti-oxidants. North Sun Nurseries co-owner Don Lauzon plans to make a bushel of cash harvesting blueberries. “There really is nobody in Ontario growing low bush blueberries,” Lauzon says.

Like the handcrafted furniture he makes, Leroy Stutzman is as uncomplicated as they come. “In this day and age I find them so refreshingly honest,” says Bruce Alexander, owner of Findlay’s Guardian Drug Store in New Liskeard.