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Creating Forestry Jobs In Northern Alberta

Last summer, Alberta’s government opened two competitions for timber quotas in northern Alberta as part of the Forest Jobs Action Plan. These timber allocations are part of the annual allowable cut (AAC) but had not yet been issued to an operator.

Aerial view of part of Forest Management Unit G16, about 70 kilometres northwest of Grande Prairie.

The goal was to allocate this unassigned timber through an open, competitive process that maximizes economic, environmental and community benefits, including benefits to local Indigenous communities.

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May 26, 2021 - 5 years ago
Green Construction Equipment Makes Its Mark In The Desert

The L25 Electric is comfortable working in rugged and remote conditions.

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) is partnering with Baltic Sands Inc. out of Yucca Valley, California, to pilot two of its compact electric machines — the ECR25 Electric excavator and L25 Electric wheel loader. The goal? To see how these machines perform and hold up in a remote, rugged desert environment.

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May 25, 2021 - 5 years ago
Volvo CE Sells A Million Machines In One Year – Its Fastest Yet For A New Series

… a new series of toys that is! Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has secured its position as one of the most beloved branded toys, thanks to a gamechanging partnership with toymaker Dickie Toys.

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May 21, 2021 - 5 years ago
From The Supply Post Archives: Supply Post Sells In Fiji

Yes, you’re right – it’s a logging arch. But it isn’t the picture that is important, it is the fact that Warren Dickie of Amca Sales is shipping it to a buyer in Fiji — because somebody there reads The Supply Post.

Reprinted from Supply Post, October 1977.

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May 20, 2021 - 5 years ago
Canada Cartage Expands Services In Ottawa And Eastern Ontario With The Acquisition Of City Transfer

Canada Cartage, the country’s largest asset-based fleet outsourcing provider, announced today the acquisition of Ottawa-based carrier City Transfer. City Transfer provides same-day transportation, dedicated transportation, 3rd-party logistics, warehousing, and call cartage work in Canada and the U.S.A.

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May 20, 2021 - 5 years ago
From The Supply Post Archives: Snipping Sniper

Snipping Sniper

MacMillan Bloedel foresters are matching up “super trees” as potential parents in a comprehensive tree improvement program for British Columbia’s coastal softwood forests.

Rod Tysdal of MacMillan Bloedel’s Stillwater division draws a bead on Douglas fir plus tree No. 110. Tysdal, using a .22 calibre rifle equipped with a telescopic sight, obtains branch cuttings by literally shooting them off the tree. Plus tree cuttings are late grafted onto other seedlings or rooted independently and become the basic genetic material that will provide seed for better and faster growing future forests.

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May 19, 2021 - 5 years ago