Forestry

It does not matter which sector of Northern Ontario’s wood industry one is looking at; it is a tough time to be making a living from Ontario’s forests.

Effective Oct. 11, 330 people in Dryden will be out of work. Weyerhaeuser has announced it is permanently closing its Dryden sawmill and reducing the workforce at its pulp and paper facility due to market conditions.

Tembec has kept its word on a promise made in November of last year. The company announced July 18 plans to start up operation at its Kenogami mill near Kirkland Lake.

Biologists and foresters in Sault Ste. Marie are experimenting this summer with some new high-resolution airborne photographic equipment as a possible new, forest management tool.

New digital photographic technology is being brought to market to assess Northern Ontario's forests.

The temporary shutdown of the Domtar mill in White River may be a major blow to the community, but it can also be an opportunity to develop new economic development initiatives, says Norm Jaehrling.

A consortium of First Nations communities have finalized the sale of the assets of Algoma Mill Works to build a specialty plywood mill on the North Channel of Lake Huron. Algoma-Manitoulin MP Brent St.

Several communities throughout Northern Ontario have been receiving bad news recently. The news is coming from lumber mills and pulp and paper mills.

Industries may soon be knocking on the back doors of land owners in hopes of enticing themto establish tree plantations to offset greenhouse gas emissions. In 1997 there were 160 countries that signed the Kyoto Protocol agreement.

If Tembec’s Kenogami mill remains closed, Rosko Forestry Operations is ready to develop its own milling and planing facility in Kirkland Lake. “We’ve put in a proposal to the (Ontario) Ministry of Natural Resources,” says company president Joe Rosko.