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BCFii Year-in-Review: 2016/17
This week British Columbia Forestry Innovation Investment released it’s 2016/17 Year in Review report. British Columbia Forestry Innovation Investment is a BC Crown agency with a mandate that includes developing and diversifying markets for BC forest products around the world as well as promoting forest practices and the environmental merits of wood products. According to…
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Heffler Forest Products Reopens
Jobs are coming back to Hefler Forest Products’ sawmill in Middle Sackville, NS, starting next month, said Stan Mason, president of the forest products company to The Hants Journal September 15. The company will be producing specialty wood products, including 12-foot and 16-foot lengths and deck boards. The new hires next month will amount to…
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British Columbia New Government Budget Revealed: Forestry
The newly-elected BC provincial government earlier this year has released it’s budget plan, for the general economy and for the forests ministry. There are some changes in the dollars for the 2017/18 estimate from the previous year. Madison’s caught up with the BC Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development Thursday to…
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Madison’s Forest Pulse: 2Q 2017
The next issue of the wildly popular quarterly North American forest data update, Madison’s Forest Pulse, will soon be emailed to subscribers. The information tool for your forest management and investment planning. Don’t miss even one issue of this vital information! Our quarterly product is tailored to provide you with timely information about the North…
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Canada and US Softwood Lumber Update: 1Q ‘17
New data this week out of Statistics Canada, on Canadian softwood lumber production and sawmill sales, as well as from the US Department of Commerce, on US coniferous wood imports and exports, give an excellent update to the economic state of the North American forest products industry for 1Q 2017. According to figures Wednesday from…
