Irving retains right to buy directly from woodlots but it’s not a free market

December 14, 2017
Category: Today's Takeaway

The New Brunswick Forest Products Commission sided with Irving lumber in its eight-year dispute with the Sussex-based marketing board, allowing the company to purchase directly from private woodlot owners. However, it comes with licensing rules that affirm the board has authority to regulate wood sales and thus, according to the CBC, it’s “not a free market”.

In Forestry news: BC will resume helicopter logging of beetle impacted Douglas-fir trees; Saskatchewan is putting more money into stopping the mountain pine beetle; Ontario is clearing forests infested with the emerald ash borer; and the US Forest Service wants to log ahead of the spruce budworm in South Dakota.

Finally, MP Richard Cannings wants to make it mandatory for the Canadian government to consider the use of wood in all federal infrastructure projects.

— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor

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