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Smoke billows during a fire in an area of the Amazon rainforest near Humaita, Amazonas State, Brazil on Aug. 14, 2019. (Photo: Reuters/Ueslei Marcelino)

Brazil Amazon deforestation soars to 11-year high

By GFM Network News, Marcelo Teixeira November 18, 2019

Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil | Reuters — Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose to its highest in over a decade this year, government data on Monday showed, confirming a sharp increase under the leadership of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. The data from Brazil’s INPE space research agency, which showed deforestation soaring 29.5 per cent

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Winter logging in Riding Mountain’s past

Timber was source for thriving industry in the ’20s and early ’30s

By Donna Gamache January 27, 2016

A drive through Riding Mountain National Park (RMNP) in winter can be enjoyable. As one approaches from the east or north, the park rises island-like above the surrounding plain. You can see why early settlers termed these hills mountains, even though the elevation at the top averages only 600 to 700 metres. Approaching from the

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Staying Sharp

By Daniel Winters October 27, 2011

CO-OPERATOR STAFF / WAWANESA It may seem counter intuitive, but a sharp chainsaw is a safer chainsaw. Even a brand-new chain right out of the box, I sharpen it before I cut with it, said Ian Kirby, a woodlot forester who spent a few years in Ontario logging camps before joining MAFRI’s agro-woodlot program. That

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Doing It Right, The Small-Scale Way

By Daniel Winters February 4, 2010

“It’s just a matter of putting the four bunks down, putting the rails in, and then just levelling it.” – DARYL NEUSTATER There’s a trick to every trade, so they say. For low-impact logging, that’s especially true. Put a chainsaw into the hands of the average Canadian, and depending upon how much he or she

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Money Grows On Trees

By Daniel Winters November 19, 2009

By actively managing about 100 acres of hardwood forest, David Pogson figures he and his brother Barry’s sawmill sideline might eventually account for about one-third of their farm income within a decade. Out of the seven-acre plot from which they are doing a managed harvest, they have already removed 30 cords of firewood in the

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The Pogson brothers are harvesting trees from the same bush as their grandfather Third generation earns money from woodlot

By Allan Dawson November 20, 2008

“It’s like money in the bank. Once these trees are free of competition they have more available light, more available water, more available nutrients. “ – Shawn Dias Dave Pogson’s grandfather helped feed his family during the Dirty Thirties selling oak fence posts he felled with an axe in his bush south of Rock Lake.

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Incentives available to encourage woodlot harvest

By Allan Dawson November 20, 2008

Hardwood floors are beautiful with their distinctive cache. But a hardwood floor made from local trees, well, that gives the owner some bragging rights. Manitoba has the hardwood and Shane Tornblom believes there are buyers willing to pay a premium for a locally produced, high-quality product. “That’s why we want to get a micro-forestry industry

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Women who fed a nation

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Brazil Amazon deforestation soars to 11-year high

Winter logging in Riding Mountain’s past

Staying Sharp

Doing It Right, The Small-Scale Way

Money Grows On Trees

The Pogson brothers are harvesting trees from the same bush as their grandfather Third generation earns money from woodlot

Incentives available to encourage woodlot harvest

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