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Wildfire Season, North America 2016
Just as another terrible wild re season is upon Canada and the US, the Utah Department of Natural Resources’ newly developed, interactive site — www.utahwilfirerisk.com — allows users to search for and zoom into particular neighbor– hoods or recreation areas on a statewide map to see the wild re risk in that zone. It’s essentially…
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Drop in Oregon Timber Harvest: 2015
Oregon’s timber harvest dropped 8 per cent last year, said OPB News July 25. Before the great recession, Oregon was producing about 4 billion board feet of lumber a year. That dropped after the recession as people stopped building houses. But it’s been climbing and for the last few years it’s been above 4 billion…
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Drop in Oregon Timber Harvest: 2015
Oregon’s timber harvest dropped 8 per cent last year, said OPB News July 25. Before the great recession, Oregon was producing about 4 billion board feet of lumber a year. That dropped after the recession as people stopped building houses. But it’s been climbing and for the last few years it’s been above 4 billion…
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Forest Products Association of Canada Announces…
The Forest Products Association of Canada this week announced an excit– ing new online tool (thegreenestworkforce.ca), which is free for both employment seekers and employers. It will support those looking for work in the forest sector. It will also provide advanced labour market information that can be used to help forestry companies with their recruitment…
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Nova Scotia Natural Resources Funding and Projects
Nova Scotia provincial funding partners the Department of Natural Resources and Innovacorp are jointly contributing $667,000 to Halifax, NS-based energy giant Emera Inc’s $1 million into a new private-public partnership forestry innovation “hub,” based in an Innovacorp of office in Dartmouth, NS. Nova Scotia Forestry New PPP Innovation Hub Nova Scotia provincial funding partners the…
