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  Links to Pulp and Paper Producers
GP is also a major producer of building products such as plywood, gypsum, etc. The GP Website offers a lot of useful information, including do-it-yourself projects with forest products, such as making a dog house.
Formerly Johnson Corrugated Products, Corp. This is a Canadian company with a variety of products such as packaging materials, tissue, and molded pulp.
Centered in Spokane, Washington, Potlatch is a forest products company with about 1.5 million acres of timberland in Arkansas, Idaho and Minnesota.
www.forest-products.org /manuf.html   (1610 words)

  
 FPL : About FPL : Who We Are   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Forest Protection Limited is a private company owned by a group of New Brunswick Forest Stakeholders.
Forest Protection Limited has customized the fleet with a range of specialized equipment, computers and software making these aircraft unique to Canada and abroad.
Forest Protection Limited has played a key role in field trials of sex pheromones and biological insecticides using with state-of-the art delivery technologies that allow us to optomize low volume delivery with the maximum benefit to the forest and people.
www.forestprotectionltd.com /english/aboutFPL.html   (338 words)

  
 Lakehead University: Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment
Awarded on the recommendation by the Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment to a deserving graduating student at Lakehead University at the conclusion of his/her fourth year wood technology course at Lakehead University.
Awarded annually on the recommendation of the Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment to a full-time student entering the fourth year of the Honours Bachelor of Science in Forestry program who has achieved the highest overall average of the required, non-elective courses in the third year of the program.
Awarded annually on the recommendation of the Dean of the Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment and the Chair of the Department of Biology and the Senate Undergraduate or Graduate Studies Committee to a graduate or undergraduate student who shows interest in the propagation and cultivation of ornamental trees and shrubs for Northern Ontario.
www.lakeheadforestry.ca /student/bursaries.php   (2117 words)

  
 CSA International - Product Areas - Forest Products Marking - Forestry Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The project work is expected to help reduce the environmental footprint of the company's forest and paper product suppliers while contributing to global biodiversity conservation.
While most forest and paper companies are eager to implement sound conservation practices, the scientific information, methods and tools needed for conservation priority setting, planning and implementation are not always available, consistent or understood.
One goal of the project is to engage Office Depot suppliers and the forest certification community, to the greatest extent possible, in efforts leading to measurable conservation outcomes for forest species, ecological communities and landscapes.
www.csa-international.org /product_areas/forest_products_marking/forestry/?articleID=8167&language=english   (1253 words)

  
 NRDC: Parks, Forests & Wildlands: Forests
Half the world's forests are now gone, and well over 30 million acres more are lost each year.
In addition, we target the underlying cause of forest destruction by working with builders, architects and others to reduce wood use.
Forests are being chopped down to make disposable tissue paper products.
www.nrdc.org /land/forests/default.asp   (224 words)

  
 ForestryUSA.com: Forest Industries - forestry, careers, jobs, consultants, timber, timberlands, forest products, ...
Products include lumber and panels (plywood and particleboard), bleached pulp, bleached paperboard and consumer tissue products.
Roseburg Forest Products is a progressive, closely-held forest products company, building value with timberlands, safe and efficient manufacturing, and highly capable people.
The True North Woods(tm) brand assures customers that our products were produced from materials harvested from the world-class forests of northern Minnesota - where the boreal, pine, and hardwood forests meet - and reflects the unique traits of our diverse and sustainably managed forests and our shared traditions of craftsmanship.
www.forestryusa.com /forind.htm   (1619 words)

  
 NOFC :: NW Forest Mgt Planning
Ontario's forest managment planning sytem for Crown forests is guided by the Forest Mangement Planning Manual.
Forest management plans contain long-term management direction over a ten year period and take approximately two years to complete from start to finish.
Detailed operational planning is undertaken for the first five years as part of the initial planning process with further detailed operational planning for years 6 to 10 occuring during year 5.
www.nofc.ca /index.php?menu=Newsroom§ion=Initiatives&subsection=NorthwestForestMgtPlanning   (536 words)

  
 Millar Western Forest Products Ltd.
The Forest Watershed and Riparian Disturbance (FORWARD) research initiative, a collaboration including Millar Western Forest Products Ltd., Lakehead University, the Alexis Nakota Sioux Nation and other university and industry partners, has won a 2004 NSERC Synergy Award for Innovation.
A key element of the University?s mission is educating students to be aware of their social and environmental responsibilities, a focus put to practice in resource management of the boreal forest.
One of Western Canada?s largest privately-owned forest companies, Millar Western is a family-owned business operating technologically-advanced lumber and pulp manufacturing facilities in Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as progressive woodlands operations supplying timber to the operations on the basis of sustainable forest management.
www.millarwestern.com /archive-show.php?myID=20031034   (817 words)

  
 GreenvilleOnline.com - News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Greenville-based Bowater has agreed to pay $770 million for Alliance, a Canadian company that harvests timber and pro- duces and sells newsprint and other paper and lumber products.
Bowater would own more mills in the South than any other newsprint producer, but Herve Carreau of CIBC World Markets said he doesn't "think it's a big issue because newsprint is a globally traded commodity" and not subject to regional pricing.
One possible explanation for the government's interest: With the forest products industry consolidating, regulators could be studying the Bowater-Alliance deal to prepare for future consolidation.
greenvilleonline.com /news/business/2001/streettalk.htm   (781 words)

  
 Bowater hauls in Avenor - Mar. 9, 1998
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - Canadian forest products company Avenor Inc. signed an agreement to be acquired by Bowater Inc. for $3.5 billion (US$2.47 billion) after rejecting a lower bid by Abitibi-Consolidated Inc.
     Bowater looked for the combination to have an immediately positive effect on its company's earnings, including cost savings of $35 million identified by an operational improvement plan previously announced by Avenor (ANR) and an additional $75 million in savings through other means.
     Additionally, Bowater said that after the transaction is completed, it will sell Avenor's paper and pulp mill in Dryden, Ontario, and use the proceeds to pay off some debt.
money.cnn.com /1998/03/09/deals/bowater   (516 words)

  
 ITP Forest Products:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Bowater Incorporated paper mill in Grenada, Mississippi, produces 247,000 metric tons of newsprint each year.
See the Bowater Web site and the DOE press releases on the visits to Mississippi and Pennsylvania.
DOE's Energy Saving Teams have completed visits to 29 large federal facilities and are in the process of visiting 200 energy-intensive manufacturing facilities as part of the national "Easy Ways to Save Energy" campaign launched in October 2005.
www.eere.energy.gov /industry/forest/news_detail.html/news_id=9933   (203 words)

  
 Nova Forest Alliance: Pockwock-Bowater Watershed Project
The results from this project will be used to provide guidance to woodland managers and government regulators to develop and apply best forest management practices.
The data will be used to calibrate the FORHYMS watershed model, which will become a functional tool allowing managers to predict water quality response in relation to the percentage of watershed area harvested and the use of varying stream buffer widths.
The Pockwock Bowater Watershed Project Summary Report may be downloaded from our publications section.
www.novaforestalliance.com /inside.asp?cmPageID=138   (199 words)

  
 Camden Chronicle Independent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
William Bartle, operations manager for Bowater's Forest Products Division, which owns the site, said, "We are very pleased to be a part of this cooperative effort to not only protect this very important historical site from potential development but to help study it and make the site more available to the public."
Pettus thanked members of the Daughters of the American Revolution for their help in acting as the site's stewards along with Bowater Timber Co. He also announced the pending formation of an advisory council during the next year that would work to interpret the site through archaeology, education and tourism.
The tourism aspect of the Camden Battlefield was represented by new S.C. Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Director-designate John Durst.
zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=1165477&BRD=1382&PAG=461&...&rfi=8   (452 words)

  
 Novel Twists On The Tried And True - News by InformationWeek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Instead, he turned to Jacques Berger, IT manager for Bowater's Canadian forest-products division, who with a few other IT employees worked with sales, marketing, and trading folks to create the trading system in six months for less than $70,000.
Bowater's Quebec team used PowerHouse, a fourth-generation programming language from Cognos, running on an HP3000 server to create the app and Visual Basic for the interface.
Among the dozens of technologies and processes Bowater has deployed to secure its factory systems is two-factor authentication.
www.informationweek.com /showArticle.jhtml?articleId=170703765   (676 words)

  
 Forest Ethics : ForestEthics Launches Initiative To Help Save Ontario’s Forests and Industry
Meanwhile, the global market for sustainable products estimated at $227 billion this year in the United States is projected to reach $1 trillion annually by 2020.
The bright side is that they are increasing their purchases from companies like Tembec who are committed to addressing endangered forests issues and pursuing Forest Stewardship Council certification,” added Ms.
Despite repeated assurances, the British Columbia government is refusing to legislate the agreement--and ForestEthics is committed to holding the government to its promise.
www.forestethics.org /article.php?id=1230   (582 words)

  
 NOFC :: Northwestern Ontario Forest Council
The Northwestern Ontario Forest Council (NOFC) is a not for profit group of business, labour, government, academia and community representatives who share the vision of improving the economy of northwestern Ontario by building upon its major asset, a strong and healthy forest sector.
A forum where the various parties come together to review and share current information, and work together as one voice in support of this sector is vital.
This website has been developed to encourage dialogue, and enhance the communication of key forest sector information between members and other parties throughout Ontario and the northwest.
nofc.ca /index.php?...&subsection=NorthwestForestMgtPlanning   (134 words)

  
 Employment Opportunity: Canadian Forests - Canada, forestry, careers, jobs, forest products, value added, wood, paper, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bowater Mersey Paper Company Limited is seeking an energetic individual for the position of Forestry Planner in Liverpool, Nova Scotia.
Key areas of responsibility include: the supervision of a cruising and PSP program; creation, compilation, and analysis of operating plans; maintenance and development of a field data gathering system using hand-held units; and maintenance and development of a forest fibre supply model.
The successful applicant will be a self-starter, with strong interpersonal skills, and a flexible and responsible team player, with effective organizational and administrative capabilities.
www.canadian-forests.com /j-bowater4.htm   (200 words)

  
 Forestry Today   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
PRESCOTT - Prescott National Forest fire managers decided to cancel the scheduled prescribed burn this week on the Crooks Maverick...
ABC News CALCUTTA, India Jan. 15 — Donning fiberglass vests and steel helmets, scores of wildlife officials scour a forest in eastern India to count tige...
State Forests says there is no reason for conservationists to be concerned about plans to log more than 300 hectares of bushland near the Deua River...
archive.wn.com /2004/01/16/1400/forestrytoday   (821 words)

  
 Heads Up CIPEC
Per unit of production, this represents a 5.5 percent and 22.5 percent improvement, respectively, in emissions intensity.
Bowater Canadian Forest Products, with operations in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, is responsible for the management of forestry operations on nearly 25 million acres of public and private land, supplying four paper mills, 10 sawmills and one wood treatment plant.
Bowater now has an agreement with Hydro Québec to supply the utility with power from a 20-MW cogeneration facility, producing both power and steam, located at the Gatineau newsprint mill.
oee.nrcan.gc.ca /cipec/ieep/newscentre/cipec_vol_viii_8.cfm   (2647 words)

  
 CTV.ca | Bowater buys Alliance Forest Products
Under the agreement, Bowater will pay $13 in cash plus 0.166 shares of Bowater's common stock for each Alliance common share.
Bowater is based in Greenville, S.C. It manufactures newsprint as well as a number of other forest products in the U.S., Canada and South Korea.
Alliance specializes in timber harvesting and forest management, as well as the production and sale of newsprint.
www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1027383428586_22792628   (249 words)

  
 TheStreet.com: Bowater to Buy Alliance Forest Products for $770 Million
Bowater will offer C$13 in cash and 0.166 shares of its common stock for each Alliance share, implying a value of C$26 for Alliance's shares.
Bowater, based in Greenville, S.C., also manufactures a variety of paper products, market pulp and lumber.
Shares of Bowater were down $1.86, or 4%, to $45.54 in recent New York Stock Exchange trading.
www.thestreet.com /brknews/general/1372851.html   (148 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc. has invested millions of dollars into maintaining and preserving the environment in Northern Ontario.
It is part of a public trust we take very seriously.
If you have any further questions or concerns, feel free to contact us using the link in the upper right.
www.bowater.ca /envMain.aspx   (148 words)

  
 Northern Lights Credit Union --Thunder Bay Member ship Survey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc. has served notice to Northern Lights Credit Union their intention of terminating our lease for the branch located at 1801 Neebing Avenue, effective June 30, 2006.
We also realize that we cannot serve our members if there is an absence of a building to operate from.
From the information we have, Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc. is planning to demolish the building.
www.nlcu.on.ca /membership_survey.php   (387 words)

  
 Investor's Business Daily: Breaking News
MONTREAL, Dec 3, 2004 (CCNMatthews via COMTEX) -- Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc., (BCFPI) today announced that it has refiled its interim financial statements for the periods ended March 31, 2004, and June 30, 2004.
The refiled statements correct BCFPI's accounting for intercompany sales to its ultimate parent company, Bowater Incorporated.
BCFPI's corrections have no impact on the financial statements of its ultimate parent company, Bowater Incorporated.
www.investors.com /breakingnews.asp?journalid=24262574&rb=1   (368 words)

  
 FRA Chairman
The Forest Resources Association awarded its 2005 National Outstanding Forestry Activist Award to Tim Wigley, of PAC/West Communications, in Wilsonville, Oregon, for his leading role in building support for the President’s Healthy Forests Initiative with the public and policymakers.
Tim Wigley has advocated forestry in political campaigns throughout the U.S., but his most valuable contribution was the development of Project Protect in 2003, a campaign to support the current Administration’s Healthy Forests Initiative and to turn it into effective national legislation.
He then built relationships with allied forest products and grassroots groups to build support for a legislative solution to wildfire crisis management and built bipartisan support in Congress to introduce and pass the Healthy Forests Restoration Act.
www.forestresources.org /ABOUT/LEADERS/wigley.html   (411 words)

  
 Public input sought : Thunderbay IMC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Ontario ministry of the Environment's Thunder Bay/Kenora District office intends to issue a control order to Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc., requiring the company to undertake works to improve air quality in and around the City of Thunder Bay.
The Ontario ministry of the Environment's Thunder Bay/Kenora District office intends to
issue a control order to Bowater Canadian Forest Products Inc., requiring the company to
thunderbay.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=3217   (174 words)

  
 Remsoft Inc. - Software for Sustainable Growth
Remsoft creates the world's leading software for sustainable, spatial forest management planning.
New forest management standards in China embrace more than just timber value.
Remsoft software helps planners incorporate biodiversity, water, habitat and the environment into forest management plans.
remsoft.com   (151 words)

  
 Amazon.com Books: Bowater   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Chris Bowater - the Songbook by Chris Bowater (Unknown Binding - Oct 1997)
Bowater acquisition of Great Northern properties will strengthen operations.
Bowater forges ahead with mills.: An article from: Northern Ontario Business by Dianne Gouliquer (Digital - Jul 1, 2001) - HTML
www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Bowater&tag=httpexplaguid-20&index=books&link_code=qs&page=1   (282 words)

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