FOR400Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Newsprint, Sustainable Development Goals, Softwood
Document Summary
National voice of forest practitioners by representing the broad spectrum of foresters in. Focus on public awareness of national and international forestry issues. Field tours & workshops happening across the country. Workshops & tech sessions (work on drones and uavs) A lot of work on steep-slope harvesting technology. In ontario is a course called tree marking . Timely and topical themes and challenges in forestry. Includes international internship experience in the uk with a silvicultural firm that matches interests and assets. First practicing forester in canada = bernhard fernow. But series of cyclical pressures that challenged the economic viability of the forest sector. Rapid decline of use of paper and need of pulp. A lot of our softwood exports go to us for housing. Products coming from other places that were cheaper/more accessible. Newspring and paper declined in a very short period of time. Secondary mills (converted papers, treated papers, engineered wood products) also declined.
