Softwood wood fibre prices are currently close to a 12-year high in British Columbia, Canada, according to the market report North American Wood Fiber Review. As chip prices in BC tend to follow pulp prices, wood costs have remained practically unchanged in 2008, but were over 30% higher in the third quarter 2008 than they […]

FSC recently participated in a project sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), in which the very latest satellite sensors and software was used to design and test mapping, monitoring and measurement services for forest resources. Within the program of the FSC General Assembly 2008, interested parties are invited to participate in a workshop developed […]

The US Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) will soon sign a five-year agreement designed to use former coal surface mined lands as sites for new chestnut tree plantings. The partnership says it has “the potential for propelling forward a reforestation renaissance on surface mines as […]

Global Green Building Trends is a 50-page printed report (available as hard copy or PDF) that examines the results of research conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction Analytics regarding the global green building industry. The first ever global scale green building study, this report details the market trends and activities driving green building growth worldwide. The new […]

Within the program of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly 2008, FSC invites interested partes to attend a truly unique and timely event - a two-day forest conference at the Cape Town International Convention Center (CTICC). The Forest Conference is an opportunity to participate in the fifth General Assembly of members (GA), and a chance to […]

The world’s tallest hardwood tree has been discovered less than 5 km from Forestry Tasmania’s Tahune Airwalk tourism attraction. It is the only known standing hardwood tree in the world to be over 100 m tall. The trees are located in State forest, south of Hobart. Forestry Tasmania (FT) staff found the Eucalyptus regnans using […]