by Jim Petersen | Oct 21, 2025 | 2025, Fire Mitigation, Forest Management, Guest Columns, September/October 2025, Sustainability, TimberWest Magazine, Wildfire
“The forests we see today are not the same as the forests of 2001. They are dangerously overstocked and increasingly threatened by drought, insect-born disease and wildfire. Currently, nearly half of our roadless acres — over 28 million – are at high or...
by Paul MacDonald | Aug 29, 2025 | 2025, Fire Mitigation, Forest Management, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, July/August 2025, New Technology, Research & Innovation
Photos by Michelle Nortje The newspaper headlines this summer are familiar from previous summers, but they are no less tragic: thousands of people suddenly being evacuated due to forest fires, hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest lands lost to out-of-control...
by George Fullerton | Aug 29, 2025 | 2025, Fire Mitigation, Forest Management, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Harvesting, July/August 2025
Greg Bavis’s career in forestry extends from chainsaw hand felling to skidders, to cut-to-length harvesters, and most recently pioneering mechanized pre-commercial thinning in central New Brunswick. His harvester experience began in 2000 with a John Deere 608...
by Forestnet | Apr 16, 2025 | Fire Mitigation, Industry News, Supplier Newsline
[Squamish, B.C./Prince George, B.C.] – In a partnership aimed at revolutionizing wildfire response, Strategic Natural Resource Group (Strategic) and FireSwarm Solutions Inc. (FireSwarm) have joined forces to make automated aerial fire suppression a reality in Canada....
by Tim Cox | Jan 27, 2025 | 2025, Fire Mitigation, January/February 2025, TimberWest Magazine
NINE MILE FALLS, WASHINGTON – A forest fire is rapidly spreading. Who are you going to call? Adam Swedberg is one of those people you call. His business, Swedberg Contracting, provides timber fallers who fall hazard trees on wildland fires and emergency incidents. In...
by Jim Stirling | Dec 18, 2024 | 2024, Fire Mitigation, Forest Management, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, November/December 2024
A benchland overlooking B.C.’s Chilcotin River is an ideal location to recreate an historic forest landscape from the region’s past. It was an ecosystem of grasslands interspersed with groups of trees and it reflected how much of the region once appeared. A group of...
