by Jim Stirling | Apr 30, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, March/April 2025
There’s a new logger at work in Victoria. New, that is, to the seat of British Columbia’s Legislative Assembly, but no rookie to either the political arena or getting the job done in the forest. Ward Stamer was a logging contractor in B.C.’s Southern Interior region...
by Forestnet | Apr 30, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Industry News, March/April 2025
By Mark Smith, Partner, Forest Economic Advisors (FEA); Research by Chari Gimenez, FEA Canada In the preceding two years, 2022 and 2023, we saw total Canadian lumber shipments drop by a combined 3.3 billion board feet. However, in 2024 total Canadian lumber shipments...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Apr 30, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, March/April 2025
“If you’re not growing, you’re not moving ahead.” That’s a statement that Kris and Jamie Brander, owners of the logging company Brander Enterprises in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, heard frequently from their father, Allen, as they grew up. “So…we are always growing,”...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Apr 30, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, March/April 2025, Sawmill
A new chapter has opened for Ontario’s Haliburton Forest Group and Murray Bros. Lumber Company (MBLC), both manufacturers of hardwood and softwood lumber in the area known as Cottage Country north of Toronto and south of Algonquin Provincial Park. In June 2024, they...
by Jim Stirling | Apr 30, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Industry News, March/April 2025
British Columbia’s loggers seem blessed—or perhaps cursed—with a stronger than average survival instinct. Throw problems at them and they solve them. Heap on still more complications and most of them just dig a little deeper into their sources of resilience. U.S....
by Paul MacDonald | Apr 30, 2025 | 2025, DIY, Small Scale, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, March/April 2025, Value Added
Micheal Essex, the owner of Post & Purlin Forest Products, knows all about pivoting—he has done more than his fair share of pivoting since starting up the one-stop business that does sawmilling, reman, millwork, and cabinetry, and just about anything else made of...
