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The Forest Products Association of Canada says the recommendations by the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources on transforming the forest sector will help the industry reach the ambitious goals of its Vision2020. The committee report is calling for continued strategic investments promoting research and development of innovative technologies.
This type of support is necessary for the industry to generate an additional $20 billion in economic activity through new products and markets as outlined in Vision2020.
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ReleaseWire
In order to meet the increasing demand for energy and fossil fuels alternative along with intensifying concerns for greenhouse gas, the demand for global wood pellet market is rapidly escalating.
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Forest Industry Network
An American Forest Foundation report, based on data from the U.S. Forest Service, highlights the most significant threats to family-owned forests, with one of the largest being development pressures or converting forests to nonforest uses, followed closely by environmental threats that degrade forests like insects, diseases and natural disasters like wildfires and hurricanes. Ironically, these threats can actually be addressed by increased markets for sustainable wood, which enable woodland owners to finance practices that create forest resiliency.
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BBC
A major initiative to encourage more women to consider forestry as a career is being launched at the Royal Highland Show in Scotland. Four of the top public sector jobs in this field are now held by women, but only 30 percent of the workforce in the Forestry Commission is female.
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Australian Broadcast Company
Tasmania's peak farming body has clarified its position on Forestry Tasmania after previous comments just hours before revealed support of a discussion about it being dismantled. It has reaffirmed its support for the state government's policy to retain the state-owned company but believes the taxpayer funding of its commercial operations should end.
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Business Day
Rampant illegal land occupation and a fraught land claims process could jeopardize the viability of the South African Forestry Company (Safcol), the Department of Public Enterprises said in Parliament last week. The tension between land earmarked for development, and the demand for housing and farming could derail Safcol's investment plans. The department said communities' access to agricultural land needed to be resolved for state-owned Safcol to ensure its operations ran smoothly and were sustainable.
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Bloomberg
A tiny beetle's two-decade rampage across western Canada has hugely impacted the region's timber industry, destroying more than half the harvestable pine in heavily forested British Columbia. Giant forestry firms have headed south as a consequence, buying up sawmills and woodlands across the U.S.
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Jetson Green
The Ecoshelta is a modular building system designed by architect Stephen Sainsbury of Canberra, Australia. It comprises a system of corrugated aluminum panels over a timber frame, which enables the construction of buildings that can be scaled up or down, added to, and which are easy to assemble and disassemble, so they can be relocated easily, while also being robust and durable.
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Reuters via Yahoo News
A proposal for a timber-clad lighthouse won an international contest for the design of a planned new Guggenheim museum in Helsinki, Finaland, on Tuesday, even as the future of the project hangs in the balance amid strong opposition from many Finns.
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Scoop
This week in Rotorua, New Zealand, the Forest Industry Engineering Association is hosting the largest ever gathering of international forest contractors, forest managers as well as machinery and service suppliers to the industry. The HarvestTECH 2105 international conference is focused on logging machinery designed for steep slope forest harvesting and has attracted over 400 delegates to Rotorua, the heart of forestry.
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