GRAND PRAIRIE, Alberta — Norbord has been awarded 51,000 cubic metres of unallocated deciduous timber in annual allowable cut to the northwest of Grande Prairie by the provincial government. Through a bid put in as part of the Forest Jobs Action Plan in 2020 with the support of the City and County… Norbord (now a wholly-owned subsidiary of West Fraser Timber) has been granted the cut within Forest Management Unit G16. The unallocated AAC falls within the northern section of Forest Management Area G16 (Courtesy of the Government of Alberta). General manager of Western Woodlands for Norbord Noel Roberts says this deciduous will be utilized at its OSB plant south of the city. …As part of Norbord’s bid, the province says Norbord will be giving hundreds of thousands in funding to the Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute.