by Tony Kryzanowski | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, November/December 2025, Sawmill, Value Added
North America’s largest mass timber producer, Mercer Mass Timber (MMT), has announced a partnership with an Australian-based digital software provider to make their mass timber-specific and code-compliant digital design platform freely available to architects and...
by Paul MacDonald | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Harvesting, Industry News, New Technology, November/December 2025, Research & Innovation, Steep Slope, Supplier Newsline
Hybrid cars and trucks seem to be everywhere these days—but a hybrid piece of logging equipment recently started working in the forests on the British Columbia coast, and it’s getting some attention. And it all started with a mini unintentional demo in the yard of...
by Paul MacDonald | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Harvesting, Industry News, New Technology, November/December 2025, Steep Slope, Trucking
Dorian Uzzell, the owner of B.C. logging operation Wahkash Contracting, was an instrumental part of the building of the first diesel-electric hybrid grapple yarder by T-Mar Industries—he’s the customer for the yarder. “We are definitely excited about the hybrid...
by George Fullerton | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Harvesting, November/December 2025
“I am doing exactly what I always wanted to do,” shared Larry Doherty on a private woodlot harvest operation, about 10 kilometres north of Sussex, New Brunswick. Doherty has been a harvest contractor for the past 36 years, and continues to invest, and look...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025, Forest Management, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, November/December 2025, The Edge
Afforestation research, development and demonstration sites established under the federal government’s Forest 2020 Program delivered by the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and its many partners—as well as sites established by programs spawned from the initial...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Dec 15, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Industry News, November/December 2025, The Last Word
“We’re just waiting for the dust to settle.” That sentiment was expressed recently by Nick Arkle, CEO of Gorman Bros. Lumber, a B.C. softwood lumber producer, regarding the current 45 per cent tariff on Canadian lumber exported to the U.S. In other words, what...
