governments latest plan to revitalize the coastal forest industry is about to be released, with measures to harvest second-growth timber on a shorter rotation and new rules for exporting logs from both Crown and private forest lands. Liberals last forest industry overhaul, the 2003 buy-back of 20 per cent of forest licences and the creation of BC Timber Sales, a government agency to develop Crown timber for auction. Little of that timber made it to market, and with the current downturn in...

Oregon s timber industry copes with fluctuations Using all parts of logs is one way the industry survives JODI KERR Statesman Journal May 30 Despite the adjustments the timber industry has had to make in the past few years, Oregon still is the largest lumber producer in the country. Oregon s timber industry copes with fluctuations Using all parts of logs is one way the industry survives JODI KERR Statesman Journal May 30 Despite the adjustments the timber industry has had to make in the...

Unfortunately, that biodiversity includes mahogany; and with global mahogany prices at record levels, their lands are being desecrated by illegal loggers who strip away the forest and build illegal roads to reach it that attract settlers onto indigenous lands. Unfortunately, that biodiversity includes mahogany; and with global mahogany prices at record levels, their lands are being desecrated by illegal loggers who strip away the forest and build illegal roads to reach it that attract...

With federal timber harvesting down to a fraction of the logging heyday in the 1980s, the Forest Service lacks money to maintain a legacy of old logging roads. That's despite the fact that the forest has lowered its maintenance standards, meaning unpaved roads are bumpier today than they would have been when the forest was flush with revenue from its timber-selling program. The fund shortage is bad news for motorists brave enough to endure a bumpy ride, but it's at least as bad for fish...

EDMONTON -- Alberta communities that depend on the forest industry are calling for a long-term plan to help them cope with devastation caused by the voracious mountain pine beetle. The tiny bugs, which have already killed nine million hectares of timber in, now infect more than three million trees in Alberta and continue to spread. The report calls on the government to help diversify the region's economy. A report by the Grande Alberta Economic Region says communities such as Hinton,...