While the industrial revolution was winding down, the need to document everything increased exponentially, and the demand for paper products grew as the rain forests were gutted. When you are losing great wood species' to disease and no one cares, you need to get that offall made pulp from somewhere. A number of years ago (coincidentally around the time humans started doing things with internal combustion engines) the rain forests in South America started to be ripped down to make room for...

Sunday, April 15, 2007 05:18 AM As the lumber prices drop, and the forest industy dips into one of its cyclical "troughs" there is the reality that had mostforest industry players NOT received a healthy refund in softwood lumber duties in the fourth quarter of 2006,they would have recorded deep losses. Sunday, April 15, 2007 05:18 AM As the lumber prices drop, and the forest industy dips into one of its cyclical "troughs" there is the reality that had mostforest industry players NOT...

Thin strips of waste wood tied up in bales that can replace the straw commonly used to control erosion on everything from charred forests to restored mine sites. Portable bins that can be dropped in difficult-to-reach logging sites and filled with timber slash or chips that might later be ground into pellets for wood stoves or used to heat a school. The event was sponsored by the Forest Service and Montana Community Development corp. Much of the work in the woods these days is focused on...

Suzuki praises North; Says region has better grasp on environment than cities do Scott Paradis / The Daily Press Local News - Monday, April 16, 2007 @ 10:00 Northeastern Ontario understands the environmental movement better than its big-city counterparts, Canada's best known environmentalist says. Suzuki praises North; Says region has better grasp on environment than cities do Scott Paradis / The Daily Press Local News - Monday, April 16, 2007 @ 10:00 Northeastern Ontario understands the...

Over the past two years, environment and consumer advocacy groups in the United States and Europe have increasingly warned that the palm oil sector in Malaysia and neighboring Indonesia is destroying large tracts of forests and encroaching on the habitats of endangered species. Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said government and industry officials should take immediate action to disprove claims that the spread of palm oil plantations is endangering wildlife such as orangutans, the...