Forest companies are mostly operating albeit at reduced levels. Here are the headlines:
- BC’s industry still producing but production falls
- Canfor joins other majors in slashing production
- Carrier Lumber announces temporary shutdown
- EACOM continues to operate as normally as possible
- Irving’s Nova Scotia mill operating despite COVID-19 case
- Scherer Bros. Lumber looks to 2007 recession for guidance on crisis
- Nova Scotia’s perfect storm post Northern Pulp
In other news: shuttered Fort Nelson Tackama Mill goes up in smoke; ENGOs on Canada’s climate crisis in managed forests; an Oregon forester on how forestry is misrepresented; and woody biomass’s carbon contribution for the global forest ecosystem.
Finally; a few forestry event updates and an Easter Island Moai in BC?
Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor