July 7, 2016 5:48 pm Leave your thoughts
In my first blog I promised fishing would play a major part of my summer, and I would like to share some of my fishing experiences with all of you over the summer, but before I do I feel like I should touch upon the nature of fishermen. I have always found fishermen to be very much like magicians; we are masters of deception and we never tell anyone our secrets.
July 7, 2016 5:18 pm Leave your thoughts
This week I wanted to talk about something that I mostly find annoying in the woods: cobwebs.
I don’t have an issue with spiders. Some of them look kind of weird and I won’t pick those ones up unless I have to, but that for me is just a general “leave things in peace” rule. I’ve handled plenty of big spiders before;
June 20, 2016 9:44 am 2 Comments
I previously thought all wood products came from a same kind of pulp, but I was wrong. There are several different types of pulp, categorized by their specification and type of tree used. The pulp manufactured by the Weyerhaeuser Grande Prairie Pulp Mill is Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK), which is used for tissue, high-quality paper, paper reinforcement, filter, and even medical garments.
June 19, 2016 5:00 pm Leave your thoughts
It sounds cheesy but it’s an understatement to say DMI opens many doors of opportunity for their forestry students. My first two weeks of June consisted of mostly road maintenance, elementary school tours, and a surprise business trip with one of our planners to the AWES AGM. A large part of the first half of the summer requires weeks of road preparation before the summer haul can start in July,
June 19, 2016 4:42 pm 2 Comments
Day 1: A quick glimpse into camp life
I was so pleased last week when I found out that my partner, Erin, and I would be staying out at camp in Chezacut for two nights. The area known as Chezacut is about two and a half hours west of Williams Lake, nestled between reservations in the beautiful Tsilhqot’in Nation of the Chilcotin Plateau.