Forestry

Sometimes the simplest of inventions prove the most invaluable of tools. Sylvain Jean, 48, a millwright with Weyerhaeuser’s Chapleau mill, is finding that a simple tool he has helped to invent is proving an invaluable tool in his day to day efforts.

What started as a joke has turned into a fully operational saw mill for one man in the Temagami area.

Ontario is among the most important producers of forestry products in the country.

Optimism remains among Canada’s forest industry despite the punitive duties imposed by the U.S., and suggestions by the U.S. lumber industry to increase softwood lumber duties to 45 per cent.

Better forest management is the premise behind a training and forest certification program developed for forest compliance inspection professionals.

Canadian industry supporters are urging national unity against pressure to forge a deal with the United States to resolve the softwood lumber dispute. With lumber companies dealing with 27.

Nominations are now being accepted for the second annual Wood WORKS! Awards program, which honours renewable resource achievements.

The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MOEE) was preparing to launch an investigation of the Ministry of Natural Resources to examine massive clearcuts in the Gordon Cosens forest.

Several First Nations communities in the North were beneficiaries of a $1.7 million federal package for economic development projects.

Forty layoff notices were issued to Tembec employees at its Kenogami mill in early August, but the forest products giant vows to keep the planing and sawmill in operation.