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 Tony Kryzanowski | Aug 29, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, July/August 2025, Research & Innovation, The Edge
The ongoing preservation and study of outcomes from legacy research and demonstration sites established over the past half-century across Canada by the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and its many partners are now delivering what may be described as remarkable...
by Forestnet | Aug 29, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, July/August 2025, Research & Innovation, Supplier Newsline, Tech Update
Comact Comact’s Optimized Log Merchandiser is designed to help mills make the most of every stem. By combining advanced scanning with real-time decision making, it determines the best bucking strategy based on true log shape, product mix, and downstream requirements....
by Tony Kryzanowski | Jun 27, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, May/June 2025, New Technology, Research & Innovation, Trucking
Log truck platooning—where two or more log trucks transport logs from harvest sites on resource roads with only one qualified log truck driver in the lead vehicle and the following vehicles responding through the use of drive-by-wire communication technology to his...
by Tony Kryzanowski | Feb 28, 2025 | 2025, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, January/February 2025, New Technology, Research & Innovation
Imagine that you are a heavy equipment operator working in the forest industry and instead of an equipment cab, your place of work is a control room a few blocks from home that is equipped with joysticks and a widescreen television monitor, projecting multiple screen...
by Jim Stirling | Sep 1, 2023 | 2023, Forestnet Magazine/Logging & Sawmilling Journal, Research & Innovation, Sawmill, September/October
Each log processed through the head rig becomes part of the metaphor. Every precision cut reinforces what community resolve can collectively achieve when it is driven by a vision, in this case to diversify the regional forest industry. The Village of Valemount, B.C.,...
