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According to the town's UFORE (Urban Forest Effects Model) Report, Oakville's current average urban forest canopy cover is 29 per cent. The report established a baseline for the town's urban forest coverage and provided recommendations for increasing tree canopy coverage to 40 per cent.

The Working Forest newspaper was established by Judy Skidmore in November 1997 to provide news information for and about the Ontario forest industry.Since then, the distribution of the newspaper has grown across Canada with the main focus continuing to be on the mid-Canada forest sector.

New Canadian company Global Sticks Inc. will build a state-of-the-art factory in Thunder Bay, Ontario to manufacture Ontario wood and create sticks used for ice cream bars, popsicles, corn dogs, paint paddles and tongue depressors.

AbitibiBowater announced yesterday it will be idling the #6 paper machine here indefinitely and cutting jobs as part of its newest round of corporate streamlining, which will see production suspended at several Canadian and U.S. mills.

The partner companies, which also include Domtar Inc., whose operations include Anthony-Domtar Inc. in the Sault and a pulp and paper mill in Espanola, and Levesque Plywood Ltd. of Hearst, employ about 1,100 people in their mills and nearly 300 people in woodland operations.Boniferro Mill Works and Midway Lumber are listed among 41 “large” sawmill operations in the province by the MNR, operators producing more than 50,000 cubic metres of wood product annually, while St. Marys Paper is among 19 pulp, paper and panel board mills.

Released today, Ontario’s Forests, Ontario’s Future is a discussion paper that will guide both online public comment and a series of consultations that begin next month. The paper deals with how the province should modernize forest tenure and pricing – the system it uses to determine how wood supplies are licensed, allocated and priced, as well as the associated legal obligations.

paleoethnobotanist David Lentz of the University of Cincinnati has concluded that not only did the Maya people practice forest management, but when they abandoned their forest conservation practices it was to the detriment of the entire Maya culture.

Operations will start to be curtailed in mid-October and will impact roughly 130-employees.The decision is based on a slowdown in the North American construction industry and decreased demand for softwood lumber.

Trees will be treated with the biological insecticide TreeAzin, a natural product derived from neem tree seeds.

If you search natural resources on You Tube there is a video of the present Ontario Minister of Natural Resources, Donna Cansfield planting trees. That’s ironic considering her legacy as minister will be that she was ‘The Minister’ who allowed forestry to be removed from the MNR.

A wonderful blog on native trees of North America and trees for wildlife with photo's tips and facts

A cross-country cycling tour now in its 17th year, the Tour des Trees has become the signature fundraising event of the TREE Fund, and America’s largest fundraising event for tree research.

Tembec Inc. (TSX:TBC) said Thursday it would shut down its newsprint and sawmill operations in Kapuskasing, Ont. from July 24 to Aug. 10 due to a poor market.Approximately 510 employees will be affected, the company said.