September 7, 2016 7:07 pm Leave your thoughts
Summer may be coming to an end but my time here at Northwood is not. Admittedly, I do feel a bit forlorn as I watch all my friends get ready to go back to school in the fall. But then I think of the dreary three hour lectures, bajillion assignments and late night cram sessions before midterms. Suddenly working a four day work week,
September 7, 2016 7:05 pm Leave your thoughts
It’s hard to believe that my second work term at Canfor Pulp Innovations is coming to an end. I would like to thank Canfor Pulp Innovation and FPAC for the opportunity to be a member of the Greenest Workforce. I am not sure how many people have read my blog during the summer, but I hope this has helped you learn about some of the interesting things that go on at Canfor Pulp Innovation.
September 7, 2016 7:03 pm Leave your thoughts
I only had one last week at DMI before field school and writing this blog. In that last week I got to participate in reinforcing a road with geotextile, go for an operations tour, receive additional watercourse crossing and road inspection training, an insightful conversation with our land management superintendent about the opportunity forestry brings, and had a chance to explore with the 3D mapping station solo.
September 7, 2016 7:00 pm Leave your thoughts
Well, my summer is almost over and soon I’ll be back to school. I’m glad I was able to get out of the city for the summer and work in Quesnel and have a few adventures. I biked my favourite trails, I planted some trees, saw baby birds hatch, and I spent time with my family and friends. My favourite part of the summer was exploring British Columbia.
September 7, 2016 6:58 pm Leave your thoughts
On one of my last weekends of the summer I went camping. I originally wanted to go to Bella Coola because I’ve never been before. However, my boyfriend, Karl, didn’t want to go that far away. I still wanted to go west to the Coast Mountains so we went half way there and camped at Horn Lake. Horn Lake is just south of Tatla Lake,
September 7, 2016 6:56 pm Leave your thoughts
C’est le septième billet de blogue que j’écris et le dernier. Je tiens alors à remercier la FPAC et tous ceux qui m’ont supporté cet été.
Cet été a passé remarquablement rapidement. J’ai encore l’impression qu’il n’y a pas si longtemps, il y avait encore au moins un mois devant moi. Aujourd’hui, il ne reste qu’une semaine avant le début des cours.
September 7, 2016 6:53 pm Leave your thoughts
This summer I’ve been talking to you guys a lot about forestry practices mostly relating to the development and reforestation of cut blocks, which leaves out one BIG part of the industry. Today we’re going right to the root of forestry: harvesting. Harvesting is basically the removal of the timber off the landscape and into the mill, and it’s a really complicated process in some aspects.
September 7, 2016 6:41 pm Leave your thoughts
In what has felt far too short a time, my summer with Millar Western has come to an end. The last couple weeks did not have much new to report. I was kept quite busy right until the end completing what crossing inspections I could for the year, and leaving the rest for next year.
I did manage to squeeze a few new experiences in this summer:
September 7, 2016 6:39 pm Leave your thoughts
With the summer coming to a close and the impending school year looming over us, I thought I would take the opportunity to talk a little about the Forest Technology program at NAIT. Our program is all about practical application. This is evident right from the get-go when our first five weeks of class are done from cabins in the middle of the Albertan wilderness called Kidney Lake.
September 7, 2016 6:38 pm Leave your thoughts
I’ve decided to do something a little bit different this week, and write a Shakespearian Sonnet about woodland animals. I made every stanza about a different animal. All but one of these animals I have seen while working in the woods here this summer. The only one I haven’t seen here while in the woods, I have seen plenty of activity from and have seen in person in other places in Canada ( I did see one from the helicopter this summer).
August 22, 2016 3:19 pm Leave your thoughts
As I proceed forward into a career in Human Resources, I think conducting interviews will likely be an area of work I will enjoy. It has certainly been one of my favourite experiences so far at Canfor.
When I was asked to help review resumes for a certain position, I was excited to be able to look at resumes and develop a short list.
August 22, 2016 3:18 pm Leave your thoughts
For the past three months I have been working as an Energy Management Co-op at Canfor’s Northwood Pulp mill in Prince George. What is Energy Management you may ask? Initially, I will be honest, I wasn’t too sure either. Canfor’s Energy Management program is focused on developing strategic plans for energy and cost reduction at their various wood products manufacturing facilities.
August 22, 2016 3:15 pm Leave your thoughts
In addition to weekly effluent testing, Canfor Pulp Innovations also handle customer inquiries and complaints about its pulp products. One of our customers has been finding sand particles in their finished paper when using Canfor pulp. We suspect that this is due to the screen is not properly removing the sand and other undesirable materials at the beginning of the papermaking process.
August 22, 2016 3:04 pm Leave your thoughts
As some may know, DMI harvests aspen for wood chips to make kraft pulp. This process in the summer starts the operations around July 15th with feller bunches cutting the cutblocks, skidders moving the trees and debris accordingly. In the summer however we have what we call “In-block chippers”, these chippers are contract hired to chip onsite and have chip trucks loaded from there.
August 22, 2016 3:01 pm Leave your thoughts
I’ve been signing up for overtime a lot the last month. I usually work it but I signed up this weekend and they didn’t have anything for me. So instead, I thought I would take the opportunity to go for a hike this morning at one of my favourite spots, Narcosli Creek. I told my mom last night that I was going to go,