In Canada, the Alberta government has directed C$55.2 million in funding to continue pro-active action against mountain pine beetle infestations in the province. “This funding gives us the resources we need to continue our fight against this threat to our forests,” Sustainable Resource Development (SRD) Minister Ted Morton said. “The time to attack the beetle […]

CONSOL Energy’s, the largest producer of high-Btu bituminous coal in the USA, Fola Coal Co Surface Mine 6 in Bickmore, West Virginia, has been presented with the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative’s Excellence in Forestry Award for 2007. The award, presented by the US Office of Surface Mining (OSM), on behalf of the Appalachian Regional Reforestation […]

The forestry industry in British Columbia has been hammered over the last 12 months from all sides. As Innovatek notes in this week’s Friday Offcuts, “mill closures, job layoffs (the West Coast’s largest forestry company, Western Forest Products, just announced that it’s shutting down most of it’s logging operations next week with 800 loggers affected […]