by Tony Kryzanowski | Aug 29, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, July/August 2025, The Last Word
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, remote piloting, and robotics are beginning to have a profound impact on the forest industry as we have known it, from forest management to log harvesting and delivery and right through to lumber production. This is only...
by Jim Stirling | Jun 27, 2024 | 2024, Biomass, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, May/June 2024, The Last Word
Prince George was once known as the western white spruce capital of the world. The city is at the epicentre of British Columbia and was at the creative hub of around 22 per cent of Canada’s softwood lumber production. Prince George’s economic foundation at the...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Apr 25, 2024 | 2024, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, March/April 2024, The Last Word
An early fire season is upon us in many parts of Canada already, and in some regions, fire fighter shortages abound. This alone demonstrates that forest management in Canada must change. Otherwise, expect huge swaths of forests to burn every summer from now on, as...
by Jim Stirling | Feb 16, 2024 | 2024, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, January/February, The Last Word
Out in the bush near Fort Babine, B.C. is a plot of recently planted tree seedlings. They are destined to be under unusual levels of scrutiny as they battle for survival and growth—if they grow at all. The odds are stacked against them. The seedlings are trying to...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Dec 18, 2023 | 2023, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, November/December, The Last Word
The Origin Materials chemical plant in the city of Sarnia, in southwestern Ontario, began commercial production this past summer, and converts wood residues into the building blocks used to produce plastic materials for containers like pop bottles, clothing, textiles,...
by Jim Stirling | Sep 1, 2023 | 2023, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, September/October, The Last Word
Wildfires have laid siege to British Columbia in 2023. Residents outside the province’s Lower Mainland region have endured a prolonged and surreal environment of fear and uncertainty, filled with toxic smoke and flurries of evacuation alerts and orders. As a result,...
