Policies
After Greenpeace wrongly accused Resolute of logging in reserved areas and pulled out of the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement, Canopy has followed suit Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Canadian Institute of Forestry in collaboration with the Canadian Woodlands Forum and FPInnovations is offering its Ontario Hardwood Silviculture Workshop in Huntsville, Ont., June 19-20. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Eastern Ontario Model Forest (EOMF) recently celebrated the 10 year anniversary of its Forest Certification Program. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Forest product companies belonging to FPAC and conservation groups have joined forces in a landmark agreement with an ambition, scope and scale unmatched anywhere on the planet. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Asian long-horned beetle has been successfully eradicated from Canada, the federal government recently announced. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Billions of mountain pine beetles from B.C. are expected to devastate forests in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime provinces as they munch their way east over the next two decades, scientists predict in a new documentary. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A delayed and discredited environmental audit of the B.C. government's carbon-cutting program by auditor general John Doyle says the pollution-reduction plan isn't credible. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The days of the mountain pine beetle gnawing, unchecked, through the forests of B.C. and north-central Alberta could be numbered, thanks to a microscopic breakthrough. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A set of leaked letters is undermining the credibility of a report to be released by British Columbia's auditor general over the provincial government's carbon neutral experiment. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Resolute Forest Products has issued its 2012 Annual Report, which includes an overview of the company's 2012 sustainability performance. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Minister Joe Oliver says Canada in great position to celebrate first international day to celebrate the role of forests Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Greenpeace Canada says comments it made last year about Resolute Forest Products breaching an agreement protecting boreal forests were wrong. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Ontario government has appointed Daryl Skworchinski chair of the province's Nawiinginokiima Forest Management Corporation (NFMC). Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The B.C. government has backed off on a plan that critics said would have sold out public control over Crown forest land. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Canadian Woodlands Forum announced that Diana Blenkhorn, president & CEO of the Maritime Lumber Bureau will give the keynote address at this year's Spring Meeting, April 3-4 in Monction, N.B. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A leading forestry organization applauded the European Union Timber Regulation (EUTR), which took effect March 3 and prohibits illegally harvested timber or products derived from such timber to be brought in the European Union. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The province of Newfoundland is looking for expressions of interest on 280,000m3 of timber Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The B.C. government is being accused of giving forest companies new, sweeping powers over the land base through legislation it introduced last week to amend the Forest Act. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The Coast Forest Products Association is disputing findings from an environmental group that say all old-growth logging should be halted. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The U.S. Lumber Coalition is raising concerns about the recent announcement of log export policy changes in British Columbia, particularly an increase in the "fee in lieu of domestic manufacturing" applied to many log exports that will take effect on March 1. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
