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Loggers’ sports champion is chopping records
Loggers’ sports champion Andrea Hand has not worked in the forest industry, but she comes from a forestry-related family in B.C.—and she was busy setting a new world record in the recent Stihl Timbersports championships held in Ontario.
Western adding value on Vancouver Island
B.C.’s Western Forest Products is taking another step to adding value to its forest products, with a significant investment in kilns at its Value Added operation in Chemainus, on Vancouver Island.
Rebuilt Zavisha Sawmills remains the heart and soul of Hines Creek
Zavisha Sawmills—the heart and soul of the community of Hines Creek, in northern Alberta—has risen from the ashes thanks to a $28 million investment which is delivering a fully-modern two-line sawmill.
Careful commercial thinning do-able in B.C.
Integrated Operations Group is proving that with careful planning, commercial thinning is do-able in B.C., supported by a strong stable of Ponsse harvesting equipment, leading to the question: can commercial thinning become a meaningful fibre supply strategy for B.C.?
TECH UPDATE: Chippers, Grinders and Biomass Equipment
The latest on Chippers, Grinders and Biomass Equipment
This is the moment for forestry to step up as Canada’s leading environmental voice
Canadians faced with escalating fuel costs, crushing grocery bills and higher rent are understandably less concerned about the environment these days, according to the latest public opinion polls. And predictably, politicians eager for re-election are following the polls in terms of their own priorities.
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Loggers’ sports champion is chopping records
Loggers’ sports champion Andrea Hand has not worked in the forest industry, but she comes from a forestry-related family in B.C.—and she was busy setting a new world record in the recent Stihl Timbersports championships held in Ontario.
Western adding value on Vancouver Island
B.C.’s Western Forest Products is taking another step to adding value to its forest products, with a significant investment in kilns at its Value Added operation in Chemainus, on Vancouver Island.
Rebuilt Zavisha Sawmills remains the heart and soul of Hines Creek
Zavisha Sawmills—the heart and soul of the community of Hines Creek, in northern Alberta—has risen from the ashes thanks to a $28 million investment which is delivering a fully-modern two-line sawmill.
Careful commercial thinning do-able in B.C.
Integrated Operations Group is proving that with careful planning, commercial thinning is do-able in B.C., supported by a strong stable of Ponsse harvesting equipment, leading to the question: can commercial thinning become a meaningful fibre supply strategy for B.C.?
TECH UPDATE: Chippers, Grinders and Biomass Equipment
The latest on Chippers, Grinders and Biomass Equipment
This is the moment for forestry to step up as Canada’s leading environmental voice
Canadians faced with escalating fuel costs, crushing grocery bills and higher rent are understandably less concerned about the environment these days, according to the latest public opinion polls. And predictably, politicians eager for re-election are following the polls in terms of their own priorities.
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Time for a Name Change: Going from Logging & Sawmilling Journal to Forestnet Magazine
After more than 50 years as a trusted voice in the forest sector, Logging & Sawmilling Journal, like the industry it represents, is evolving. Logging and Sawmilling Journal is transitioning to a new name: Forestnet Magazine.
The B.C. Forest Industry Looks to Speak With a United Voice
The B.C. forest industry is now working to speak with one voice—a united, and loud voice—which it hopes that a B.C. government, which seems to be deaf to the forest industry for the most part, finally hears.
Canadian Lumber Shipments Down During a Very Turbulent 2025
During a very turbulent year, Canadian lumber shipments fell by 5.1 per cent in 2025, and the year saw Canfor edged out of second place among the top lumber producers by Do
Keeping it all Moving Forward
Despite the struggles the B.C. forest industry is facing these days, Ernie Piva works hard to successfully keep his logging operation moving forward, and is grateful for a great crew that makes it happen.
Home-Grown Prairie Sawmill
Live edge slabs—some from Ontario and B.C. logs—are the backbone of a unique Alberta sawmilling venture, Pipestone Timber, with most of the mill equipment designed and built by company owner, Haley Cochrane.
S&W Forest Products Helping California Rebuild
S&W Forest Products is taking on the task of helping to rebuild California’s fire-destroyed homes with its B.C.-manufactured shakes and shingles, and has broadened out its product line to include yellow cedar products.
A Stalwart in Canadian Forest Research Deserves an Honorary PhD
This issue of Forestnet Magazine marks the retirement of a stalwart in Canadian forestry, Derek Sidders, currently identified as Silviculture Operations Specialist, Technology Developer and Promoter with the Canadian Forest Service (CFS).
Obituary – Will Stanhope
It is with very heavy hearts that we at Forestnet/Logging and Sawmilling Journal report that Will Stanhope—the son of former LSJ Publisher, and our friend, Rob Stanhope—passed away in April. Those of us who were fortunate enough to meet/know Will saw in him a bright,...
How the hell did the B.C. Forest Industry get here?
Just how the hell did we get here? That’s a good question when it comes to the crisis that B.C. forestry is in, with many mills shuttering in recent years—and thousands of people losing their livelihoods.
Upgrade More Than Doubles STP Mill’s Lumber Production
Southeastern Timber Products—in partnership with B.C. based Tolko Industries—has completed a $200 million (U.S.) upgrade at the Ackerman, Mississippi STP sawmill that will help grow the mill’s capacity from 125 million board feet to a target of 300 million board feet.
A Passion for Forestry
Logger Jimmy Caron—selected as the Canadian Woodlands Forum-Outstanding Forestry Contractor of the Year for 2024—has a passion for the forest industry, but is quick to give credit for his company’s success to family members, and employees.
Talking with Forest Industry Leaders: the TLA’s Peter Lister
Anthony Robinson, Logging and Sawmilling Publisher and CEO, recently sat down to talk with Peter Lister, Executive Director of the Truck Loggers Association (TLA), about the B.C. forest industry being at a breaking point, and the mill closures, dire fibre supply situation and B.C. being among the highest—if not the highest—cost regions in the forest industry in North America.
Upcoming Conventions, west and east, will be dealing with some very challenging forest industry issues
With uncertainties becoming a kind of rule of thumb for the U.S. trade relationship with Canada, there will no shortage of issues to talk about at the upcoming B.C. Council of Forest Industries annual meeting and convention, and the Montreal Wood Convention.
Canadian Forest Service: Forty Years of Applied Forest and Afforestation Technology Development – Approach and Results
Since the mid-1980’s, the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) has been expanding its practical role in forest and afforestation applied research and development through various programs, initiatives, and partnerships with the provinces, forest industry and other stakeholders.
Note to B.C. Premier David Eby: Just do your job, so the forest industry can get on with doing its job
British Columbia Premier David Eby spent five days in January visiting four major cities in India. The “Looking West” junket was primarily designed to remind potential customers that B.C. was open for business, and boost interest in the province’s critical minerals and forest products.
Too bad he didn’t stay at home in Victoria from the forest products perspective. He could have used the time to make some much-needed and long-suggested positive changes. The provincial government has the power to make policy adjustments that would help the ailing provincial forest industry—now—when it is most needed.
Mass Timber: Making the leap to standard commodity
The mass timber industry is moving closer to making the leap from niche product to a standard commodity, with a new partnership by Mercer Mass Timber—which has operations in B.C.—that will see the material spec’ed more often by designers and builders.
Hybrid Harvesting
A diesel-electric hybrid grapple yarder from T-Mar Industries is now working in B.C.’s coastal forest, and it has the potential to cut fuel and maintenance costs, helping to make coastal logging more cost effective.
Wahkash Contracting a big part of the first hybrid grapple yarder
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.