forestry

An end slide area sign just before the Cottonwood River on Highway 97 South is shown just outside of Quesnel, B.C., on Thursday, March 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/James Doyle

Logging, forest loss may have awakened ancient Cariboo landslides, at cost of about $1B

UBC professor concerned money being spent on rebuilding roads could be wasted

 

Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune. (File photo)

FOREST INK: Changes to B.C. forest policy signal new approach to management

The government seeks a balanced approach

  • Mar 19, 2023

 

Percy Guichon, executive director of CCR and councillor of Tŝideldel First Nation, inspecting during a tree planting. (Shell Canada Ltd. photo)

Central Chilcotin Rehabilitation Ltd. a leader in forest management

The Indigenous company pushes the boundaries of innovative forestry management techniques,

  • Mar 18, 2023

 

A review is underway to look at how RCMP interact with protesters during resource protests like this one at Fairy Creek. (File - Black Press Media)

Watchdog investigating how B.C. RCMP unit handles resource project protests

Complaints commission will assess if the group followed own policies and the law

A review is underway to look at how RCMP interact with protesters during resource protests like this one at Fairy Creek. (File - Black Press Media)
UNBC First Nations Studies student Sarah Dixon holds the plaque she received during National Forest Week this past fall. Dixon was raised at Alkali Lake and Williams Lake. (UNBC photo)

Cariboo-Chilcotin student wins forestry award

Sarah Dixon is focused on natural sustainability at UNBC

UNBC First Nations Studies student Sarah Dixon holds the plaque she received during National Forest Week this past fall. Dixon was raised at Alkali Lake and Williams Lake. (UNBC photo)
Forest at the Argenta-Johnsons Landing Face, with Kootenay Lake in the distance. Photo: Wilderness Committee

Watchdog reprimands logging company for large clearcut near Kootenay community

Forest Practice Board says Cooper Creek Cedar overstepped its consulted plan

Forest at the Argenta-Johnsons Landing Face, with Kootenay Lake in the distance. Photo: Wilderness Committee
Part of an old-growth deferral area is shown in one of Downie Timber’s cut blocks north of Revelstoke, B.C. in this undated handout photo. The company wants to avoid logging sections of at-risk old growth but says it was told by the Crown corporation that manages B.C.’s public forests to cut the trees down or pay to leave them standing.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Eddie Petryshen

B.C. logging firm wants to avoid cutting old growth, but province said it must pay

Forestry Ministry demands pricey stumpage fee for trees left standing

Part of an old-growth deferral area is shown in one of Downie Timber’s cut blocks north of Revelstoke, B.C. in this undated handout photo. The company wants to avoid logging sections of at-risk old growth but says it was told by the Crown corporation that manages B.C.’s public forests to cut the trees down or pay to leave them standing.THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Eddie Petryshen
FILE - A northern spotted owl, named Obsidian by U.S. Forest Service employees, sits in a tree in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., in this May 8, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

Province halts old-growth logging in at-risk owl territory another two years

Old-growth suspension in the Spuzzum and Utzilus watersheds extended until February 2025

FILE - A northern spotted owl, named Obsidian by U.S. Forest Service employees, sits in a tree in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., in this May 8, 2003 file photo. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)
Stop The Spray BC wants government policy to reflect hardwoods as a healthy part of a forest, to improve moose habitat, reduce fire risk, and foster economic uses for species like aspen, birch and cottonwood. (Stop The Spray BC photo)

Group calls for forest diversity policies around Quesnel

Forests without hardwoods bad for ecosystems, communities

Stop The Spray BC wants government policy to reflect hardwoods as a healthy part of a forest, to improve moose habitat, reduce fire risk, and foster economic uses for species like aspen, birch and cottonwood. (Stop The Spray BC photo)
Alan Waters, right, was presented with a Distinguished Forest Professionals award (cedar panel Eagle In Flight by Coast Salish carver Doug Horne) from the Association of BC Forest Professionals. It was presented by ABCFP past-president Garnet Mierau at the 2022 convention in Prince George. (Photo submitted)

Distinguished Quesnel forester receives achievement award

Alan Waters honoured for distinguished career in forestry

Alan Waters, right, was presented with a Distinguished Forest Professionals award (cedar panel Eagle In Flight by Coast Salish carver Doug Horne) from the Association of BC Forest Professionals. It was presented by ABCFP past-president Garnet Mierau at the 2022 convention in Prince George. (Photo submitted)
Raw logs are loaded onto a logging ship from a log sort down the Alberni Inlet in March 2019. SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News

Trudeau government mum on Japan’s invitation to rejoin global timber treaty

Group works with countries to share conservation practice, promote sale of sustainable timber

Raw logs are loaded onto a logging ship from a log sort down the Alberni Inlet in March 2019. SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News
The province plans to rev up protection of old growth forests. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, TJ Watt )

B.C. moves to kickstart and ease old-growth harvesting deferral process

Premier David Eby and forest minister Bruce Ralston announced eight additional measures

The province plans to rev up protection of old growth forests. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, TJ Watt )
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune.

FOREST INK: Looking at green energy options

Phasing out fossil fuels is a complicated process

  • Feb 12, 2023
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune.
Brian Menzies lays down hoses just to the north of the West Fraser Log Yard fire. The log yard was reported as ablaze in the afternoon on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in between Kandola Forest Products (the former CNC Mill) and the Quesnel Cemetery. Firefighters quickly worked to contain the fire, which was fed by wind gusts of up to 50 km/h on Nov. 9. While the fire would be contained after a night of work, it would continue to burn for two more days. For more, see page 6 of the Observer. (Cassidy Dankochik Photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)

Quesnel’s wildfire safety in need of workers

Money being provided to train wildfire mitigation personnel

Brian Menzies lays down hoses just to the north of the West Fraser Log Yard fire. The log yard was reported as ablaze in the afternoon on Tuesday, Nov. 9, in between Kandola Forest Products (the former CNC Mill) and the Quesnel Cemetery. Firefighters quickly worked to contain the fire, which was fed by wind gusts of up to 50 km/h on Nov. 9. While the fire would be contained after a night of work, it would continue to burn for two more days. For more, see page 6 of the Observer. (Cassidy Dankochik Photo - Quesnel Cariboo Observer)
The many pressures on B.C.’s forests and the rural and northern communities that directly depend on them are coming to a head this spring, with sawmill, pellet and pulp closures set to affect hundreds of workers in different corners of the province. Logs are seen in an aerial view stacked at the Interfor sawmill, in Grand Forks, B.C., on May 12, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Mill closures threaten to punch holes in the fabric of rural B.C. towns

Sawmill, pellet and pulp closures are affecting hundreds of workers

The many pressures on B.C.’s forests and the rural and northern communities that directly depend on them are coming to a head this spring, with sawmill, pellet and pulp closures set to affect hundreds of workers in different corners of the province. Logs are seen in an aerial view stacked at the Interfor sawmill, in Grand Forks, B.C., on May 12, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Canfor President and Chief Executive Don Kayne said the lack of fibre supply led to the closure of its sawmill and pallet plant in Chetwynd, whose mayor says that the community will have to digest the closure for a while. But Allen Courtoreille also tried to strike a positive note. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Mayor says mill closure is ‘devastating’ for small community of Chetwynd, B.C.

Canfor’s closure eliminates 120 jobs in a community of 2,500

Canfor President and Chief Executive Don Kayne said the lack of fibre supply led to the closure of its sawmill and pallet plant in Chetwynd, whose mayor says that the community will have to digest the closure for a while. But Allen Courtoreille also tried to strike a positive note. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Cariboo Pulp and Paper in Quesnel will be shut down for two extended curtailments due to a lack of pulp supply. (West Fraser Photo)

Another shutdown coming to Quesnel pulp mill

Cariboo Pulp & Paper will be shut down in April and again in Q3

Cariboo Pulp and Paper in Quesnel will be shut down for two extended curtailments due to a lack of pulp supply. (West Fraser Photo)
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune.

FOREST INK: The CORE process, did it work?

How useful it was for reducing the war in the woods?

  • Feb 5, 2023
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune.
Quesnel is helping forestry research. (Black Press Media file photo)

Praise for Quesnel’s forestry research

UBC and Forestry Initiatives Program examining industry, nature

Quesnel is helping forestry research. (Black Press Media file photo)
People taking part in an Extinction Rebellion protest against old-growth logging march onto the empty Cambie Bridge, in Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, March 27, 2021. A man who took part in four traffic-stopping protests in Metro Vancouver in an effort to save old-growth forests has been given a conditional sentence and six months probation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

House arrest, probation for old-growth protester who blocked Metro Vancouver traffic

Benjamin Holt was sorry for the inconvenience the demonstrations caused other people

People taking part in an Extinction Rebellion protest against old-growth logging march onto the empty Cambie Bridge, in Vancouver, B.C., Saturday, March 27, 2021. A man who took part in four traffic-stopping protests in Metro Vancouver in an effort to save old-growth forests has been given a conditional sentence and six months probation. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck