Firefighters contain one Quebec forest fire while others burn out of control. The blaze consumed more than 650 square kilometres of forest east of the town of Senneterre, Que. Across Quebec, 750 firefighters are battling 27 forest fires. No towns in the region were threatened by the fire. Around 100 people were evacuated from the area. QUEBEC (CP) - A forest fire that tore through Quebec's Abitibi region has been brought under control. In Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region,...

But when fire services went there, they saw a huge fire and smoke coming from the forest, and due to the heat, trees were falling down. The fire and smoke from a crater in the forest continue to spread. Locals said they have been seeing the fire in the forest for the past one month. The forestland seems to have collapsed by about five-six feet because of the volcano-type situation. If the same situation continues, a major fire accident may take place," said Sardar, a fireman. Some village...

Deltic Timber (DEL) - timber landholder that also markets lumber and is therefore exposed to housing market. timber, and contrary to the sky-is-falling proclamations of Europe, North America is facing a rapidly falling timber market. Or is it? The truth is that it's nearly impossible to get a read on what the global market really is, because there is no single market for Lumber; no globally recognized futures contract, etc. But folks looking to timber as the next global commodities boom...

Forest owners have also argued that forests planted before 1990 are being harvested early because owners are worried they will be hit with a liability under the Kyoto regime. Some in the industry question whether the Central North Island, where large scale sustainably managed plantation forestry was pioneered in this country, will continue to be a major forestry region. But some of the specialist US-based timber investment funds that have bought forests in the region have said that it...

In Charlton County, there is 463,700 acres of natural forest and commercial timberland comprising about 93 percent of its total land area, the data also showed. Tree farmers in both counties are racing to harvest marketable timber ahead of three fast-moving wildfires that had burned a total of 216,211 acres by Friday. As little as 15 percent of that timber may be salvaged, rangers and forestry industry experts have told the Times-Union. Tree farmers are racing to harvest marketable timber...