(WHTM) – The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) is urging forest managers and woodlot owners to begin planning treatment operations now for the spongy moth, formerly known as the gypsy moth. Pennsylvania’s forest land is around 70% owned which makes those owners an essential part of protecting the trees from the spongy […]
Rick Doucett says the private woodlot sector in New Brunswick is on the verge of economic collapse, a troubling situation that the province’s new forest strategy fails to address.
Softwood lumber prices in North America this summer have been hovering at levels up to 50 per cent higher than they were eight and nine years ago. But under a complex new timber royalty system set up this year by the New Brunswick government, forestry companies are paying lower royalties for wood the lumber is made from than they did back then.
P.E.I. needs better information on where wood chips for heating, part of its plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, are coming from, says a forestry expert in the wake of the provincial auditor general’s report.