Reading Time: 3 minutes Disturbances by humans or nature change the balance of fungi in soil, potentially making it harder for seedlings to regenerate
Tag: Forestry
Putting forests to work for Indigenous communities
Reading Time: 3 minutes Governments need to work with First Nations to ensure they have fair access to forest tenure and opportunities for partnerships
How mismanagement of B.C. forests is hurting Canada’s economy
Reading Time: 4 minutes Recent sawmill closures have exposed a raft of problems in the industry and government failure to ensure long-term productivity
Forest fires torching a province’s economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The long-term economic impact of the fires ravaging the British Columbia interior – including on the logging and tourism industries – will be devastating
Banning log exports would harm B.C. economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes Streamlining the log export process and reforming the PST better options to ensure a prosperous province
The post-truth world of the U.S. lumber industry
Reading Time: 3 minutes American duties on Canadian softwood may increase the profits of U.S. lumber producers, but they also increase housing prices and reduce construction jobs
Juskatla logging camp rough intro to world of work
Reading Time: 4 minutes The lessons I learned from the summer of 1969 are with me today, some 47 years later
Canada can play hardball on softwood
Reading Time: 4 minutes Strong demand and reduced supply is pushing up the price of lumber