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Forestry

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12 MIN READ

It’s ‘glory days’ for heavy wood timber in British Columbia

When Structurlam president Bill Downing talks about wood and the expanding role he sees for it in commercial and institutional buildings, he
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3 MIN READ

Seven signs BC’s forestry sector is on the upswing

Stabilizing employment numbers, a more skilled workforce, and rising net investment and labour productivity are among the contributing factors
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6 MIN READ

Port Coquitlam company thrives on resource links

A groundbreaking new study by Peter Severinson, research director for Resource Works, should dispel any lingering doubt that resource development is the
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7 MIN READ

UBC forestry leads the revival and rethinking of BC’s biggest industry

The faculty is going through a revival at the University of British Columbia, drawing a new wave of urban students like Robert
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3 MIN READ

Signs of hope for BC wood-frame houses market in China

The new five-year memorandum of understanding signed recently between British Columbia and Zhejiang province, which lies just south of Shanghai, seems like
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10 MIN READ

Building a better life on the banks of the Fraser River

Sawmill worker Hasrat Begg has a son with a master’s degree teaching at Simon Fraser University and a daughter with a diploma
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11 MIN READ

No longer just hewers of wood and drawers of water

This generation of young professionals is shattering stereotypes about what it means to be a resource worker
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2 MIN READ

Here’s a unique voice on economic prosperity and environmental sustainability

I was recently in Cranbrook to attend my last meeting as a director of The Nature Trust of British Columbia (after two
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13 MIN READ

Economy spins around urban log brokers

From his office in New Westminster, Probyn Log vice-president Bill Markvoort is about as far from the woods as you can get,
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3 MIN READ

Balancing business and nature

In a series of conversations with workers and business operators, The Province and Resource Works explore the contributions that trade, industry, and
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4 MIN READ

Mythbuster economist takes to the airwaves

Resource Works senior research fellow Philip Cross discusses the groundbreaking research related in his 7 Myths of the BC Resource Economy report