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A Model Estate Will Be Restored To Nature & Packaged As A Tradable Biodiversity Credit

October 24, 2024 admin Agriculture, carbon emissions, climate change, forestry, heat pumps

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:50:19 +0000

A recent media story highlighted how some very wealthy Brits were adding purpose-built garden water features to their properties as a kind of a wild swimming experience — within a controlled environment. (We middle class folks might call them “ponds.”) Goals of these natural swim spaces include to enhance water … [continued]

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Langley forestry firm acquires Delta's Acorn sawmill from Interfor

April 13, 2022 admin Business, delta, forestry, Langley, local business, local news, lumber, lumber mills, news

Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 21:39:55 +0000

The buyers intends to continue milling specialty timbers for Japanese housing

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Huu-ay-aht First Nation charts own path on old-growth protection

April 8, 2022 admin Business, environmental issues and protection, First Nations, forestry, local business, local news, news, old growth

Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2022 01:10:39 +0000

“For far too long we’ve had people interfering in how we should or shouldn’t be living,” Huu-ay-aht First Nation Chief Councillor Robert Dennis.

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$1.2M in funding announced for University of Victoria housing and dining project

April 7, 2022 admin Business, Construction, forestry, local news, lumber, news, University of Victoria

Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 21:03:22 +0000

Plans for the province’s mass timber demonstration program include four new projects, which range from multi-unit homes to mixed-use commercial and industrial buildings.

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B.C.'s plan to defer old-growth logging with First Nations reaches 80 per cent of target

April 1, 2022 admin British Columbia, forestry, local news, logging, old growth

Credit to Author: Lisa Cordasco| Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 02:42:07 +0000

The government has reached agreements with 75 First Nations in the past three months to protect 6,190 square kilometres, with new land use plans with several nations.

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B.C. forest industry bracing for impact of old-growth timber crunch

March 25, 2022 admin BC government, Business, Conservation, First Nations, forestry, local business, local news, news

Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 19:24:34 +0000

Province’s value-added sawmills, coveted in value-over-volume transition, fear they will be hit hardest by shrinking timber harvests

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B.C. government urged not to spray herbicides over fears they will contaminate Indigenous food source

March 25, 2022 admin environmental issues and protection, FOOD, forestry, local news, nature and the environment, news, squamish

Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2022 18:03:51 +0000

Angelina Hopkins Rose, an Indigenous B.C. woman, says B.C. Timber Sales’ five-year plan to spray herbicides from Squamish to Hope will negatively affect Indigenous food and medicine sources.

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B.C. wildfire service to increase prevention work from backyards to forests: official

March 18, 2022 admin forest fires, forestry, local news, news, Wildfires

Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 02:23:05 +0000

The funding will be used to help the wildfire service increase its permanent, year-round staffing, allowing it to focus on every aspect of emergency management for wildfires.

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