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...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Dec 18, 2024 | 2024, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Industry News, New Technology, November/December 2024, Sawmill
Installation of the final few pieces of equipment at the Edgewood Forest Products stud mill in Carrot River, Saskatchewan marks the end of a three-year journey, with a more than $240 million investment by Dunkley Lumber that has resulted in a significant achievement...
by Paul MacDonald | Dec 18, 2024 | 2024, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, November/December 2024
The photos on the walls around the office above the maintenance shop of family-owned Miller Logging and Soler Logging in Clearwater, B.C., span a huge whack of time in the Canadian forest industry. The older black and white photos show steam powered, farm-based...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Dec 18, 2024 | 2024, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, November/December 2024, The Edge
The Canadian Wood Fibre Centre (CWFC) in collaboration with Canadian company Flash Forest is exploring a novel forest regeneration approach using multi-rotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to apply tree seed-loaded pods in evenly distributed patterns across wildfire...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Dec 18, 2024 | 2024, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Harvesting, November/December 2024
With 42 years of logging history under his belt—a longevity that is quite unusual in today’s forest industry—Les Zeller, owner of Alberta’s Zell Industries, has seen a lot and more importantly from his perspective, learned a lot. When asked about the secret to his...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Dec 18, 2024 | 2024, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, November/December 2024, Sawmill, Value Added
There’s a new sound coming from the Quebec side of the Ottawa River at Rapides des Joachims in Pontiac County these days, something local residents haven’t heard for 10 years—but it was a sound they definitely missed. It’s the sound of the Commonwealth Plywood...
