New Brunswick and BC make waves on Softwood Lumber

December 1, 2017
Category: Today's Takeaway

The New Brunswick government plans to takes steps to help its lumber industry, including hiring the ‘best experts’ to review the province’s forestry market, while BC Premier John Horgan says “BC won’t back down“. Elsewhere, the Mayor of Port Alberni and the local union rep are putting pressure on WFP to “reopen its Somas mill or sell it to someone who will”.

In Forestry news, the BC Forest Practices Board released its review of government’s monitoring of forest practices [good but not great]; the Ancient Forest Alliance seeks policy changes to protect Vancouver Island lands with “high conservation, cultural or recreational value”; and forestry icon Chick Stewart released a memoir on his working life in BC’s sawmill industry.

South of the 49th: Grizzly bear managers in Montana face hurdles on way to ‘federal delisting’; the US Forest Service is combating tree mortality with biochar; and a new study assesses the impact of beetles on Montana’s logging and saw milling costs.

Finally, the ‘seduction of wood‘ takes value-added wood products to a new level.

— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor

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