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Western Silvicultural Contractors' Association
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
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Feature Articles
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WSCAcourses - Fall Class Schedule Now Available
Aug 30, 2010 - This may be your last chance to train your workforce for next to nothing! (Please click on the above PDF file for the schedule.) Read More
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Khaira Controversy: A chance for improvements in contract management
Aug 25, 2010 - The controversy around allegations made by workers against the forestry contracting firm Khaira Enterprises has amounted to a national embarrassment for British Columbia and its silviculture contracting industry. Read More
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WSCA resource road driving push-pull steering update
Jul 8, 2010 - Race car driver Alan Sidorov owner of Sidorov Precision Driver Training has helped revise push-pull steering instruction for the WSCA Resource Road Light Truck Driver Training course. Sidorov emphasizes that practicing push-pull steering and other good driving behaviours through practice will ensure drivers will more automatically rely on these better habits in an emergency and maintain control at the wheel.
(Please click on the above PDF file for the full article.) Read More
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Neglect in the woods: No way to manage a forest
Jun 11, 2010 - A decade of cuts has left a priceless resource facing a homemade crisis. Read More
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June 5, 2010 set as Canada Planters' Day
May 4, 2010 - Like the successful 2008 six billionth tree celebration the WSCA intends to make celebrating silviculture work an annual event to raise public awareness. Read More
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Tree-planting, a staple of the summer job market for students, is disappearing
Apr 26, 2010 - Read More
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WSCA Awarded Western Economic Diversification and Job Opportunities Projects
Feb 19, 2010 14:39 - The WSCA has been awarded forestry projects worth approximately $1.7 million from both the federal and provincial governments as part of the ongoing rural economic stimulus strategy. Read More
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WSCA Rumour Mill
NSR in BC: too important for guesswork
Jul 20, 2010 - There is some absurdity around the recent confusing and seemingly contradictory figures used to describe the not satisfactorily restocked (NSR) area of British Columbia. Read More
Forestfacts movement launched by silviculture workers and companies
May 7, 2010 - A broad social networking campaign including a website, a petition, and creative contests dedicated to directing a groundswell of public support for planting more trees and restoring forests in Canada has been launched by silviculture workers and contractors. They hope increased public and political support will sustain Canadian forests as well as their jobs. Forestfacts' tactical goals include gathering ten thousands signatures of support and writing letters to federal and provincial politicians. For more information visit www.forestfacts.ca
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After the beetle: the clock is ticking
May 7, 2010 - Logging & Sawmilling Journal columnist Jim Stirling describes the WSCA's position on the need for a comprehensive forest health strategy for BC's forests. Read More
B.C.'s lodgepole pine plantations in jeopardy say reports
May 4, 2010 - With at least 80 per cent of the mature lodgepole pine in B.C. expected to be lost to the MPB plague, two recent studies show that pine plantations across the province are performing poorly and climate change is likely to make things worse. Read More
WSCA delivers decade of benefits to sector
Feb 19, 2010 20:30 - Tough times may be shortening some people's memories as they consider the benefits of supporting the WSCA. A synopsis of some of the measurable achievements of the WSCA over the last decade shows the value of the silviculture sector maintaining a role in government and public affairs. Read More
News & Media
The Big Burn
Aug 5, 2010 - The combination of a gutted Forest Service, vast areas of not sufficiently restocked forestlands, a quirky loophole in the Kyoto Protocol and a provincial government ideologically driven to sell off public assets has created the perfect opportunity for forest industrialists to burn down the last barriers to privatization of BC’s Crown forests. Read More
Federal Agencies Hope for a Mild Fire Season
Jun 24, 2010 - Prepare yourself for this year's upcoming fire season: It is going to be a mild one. Read More
B.C.’s Forests
Jun 10, 2010 - By plane, large spots of red spread like a bad case of the measles through B.C.’s forests. Read More
An obligation to future generations
Jun 7, 2010 - I was shocked to read the Minister of Forests quoted as stating we only “plant what we harvest” in a recent article. Read More
B.C. law to protect forestry contractors is silent on silviculture providers
May 4, 2010 - The B.C. government has introduced the Forestry Service Provider Protection Act as part of its promise to rewrite the antique Woodworkers Lien Act. But the proposed law does not specifically mention silviculture contractors or nurseries as forestry services providers. Read More
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