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,...

June 26, 2007 6:00 AM About 8 billion tons of carbon are created every year by vehicles, industry and burning forests and other natural occurrences, and we could not survive if the carbon stayed where it was. Computer models predicted that about 2.4 billion tons should be taken up by the northern forests, but ground-based studies have tracked only half that amount creating one of the bigger mysteries of climate studies. The samples collected above the tropics contained less carbon than...

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. Coleman said he wants to emulate a successful strategy used in Washington state, with intensive forest management of second-growth timber. That would help compete against foreign tree farms with rapid production, and shift logging away from old-growth forests....

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The future of Weyerhaeuser is again under speculation with rumours flying that the Kamloops sawmill and the companys timber licences will be sold. Lawrence Pillon, director of government and public affairs for Weyerhaeuser, would neither confirm nor deny the mill and licences are up for sale. The big question for Simpson is what will happen to the timber licences as mills go up for sale. My gut instinct is youre going to see the selling off of assets in the Interior, Simpson said, blaming...

Recent polls Show 71% support for Industrial hemp farming in California, and Assembly Bill 684 the California Industrial Hemp Farming Act, authored by Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) was just passed by the Assembly Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, March 27. Recent polls Show 71% support for Industrial hemp farming in California, and Assembly Bill 684 the California Industrial Hemp Farming Act, authored by Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San...

The mill also has been caught in the middle of the softwood lumber battle between the Canadian and American governments. I expect that with a tremendous amount of lumber being curtailed from all sawmills in the next few months, we should see a better economic outlook for August, he said in a release. The ILevel plant also has had temporary shutdowns related to a soft housing market in the United States that is expected to last between 18 months and two years. Shifts at the sawmill will...

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