Forestry

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.

What better place to find new energy streams than the Mattagami River. Tembec engineers are working to re-power a string of hydroelectric dams on the tributary.

A prestigious research scientist is being added to the roster at the Great Lakes Forestry Centre (GLFC) and to the teaching ranks at Algoma University College (AUC). Dr. Jenny Cory, a research specialist in molecular ecology, arrives in Sault Ste.

The Canadian softwood industry was angered and disappointed in mid-December when the United States Commerce Department decided to virtually maintain punitive trade duties on imported lumber.

Kruger Inc., a parent company of Longlac Wood Industries (LWI), is currently evaluating the feasibility of a new softwood facility to manufacture oriented strand board (OSB) in Greenstone’s new industrial park.

John Gauvreau can see clearly now.

Dr. Luc Duchesne has marvelled for years at the vast potential of Northern Ontario’s relatively “unexplored” and underdeveloped non-timber forest products (NTFP).

An environmentally friendly pesticide and injector system that stops the Asian long-horned beetle in its tracks may be the impetus for a Sault Ste. Marie bio-economy cluster now in the planning stages.

Smooth Rock Falls has not felt the effects of planned layoffs at a Tembec’s kraft pulp mill in the community, although the town intends to establish an adjustment committee and hire a consultant by next year, says the mayor of the community.

As part of a division-wide modernization plan, Columbia Forest Products will begin a multimillion-dollar expansion at its Rutherglen veener plant.