June 7, 2016 2:58 pm Leave your thoughts
Forestry. It’s not something I even imagined myself doing as a child. To be entirely honest I never even realized, while growing up, that it was a career. That someone could get paid for hiking through the woods and hugging trees.
Of course it’s not that simple, and as an adult I would never have expected it to be,
September 11, 2015 9:23 am Leave your thoughts
In the last couple of weeks here at West Fraser I have gotten the chance to try out some new tasks that have given me some insight into other aspects of forestry. Recently, I was fortunate to join new hire Chris and wily veteran Morris, members of the planning forester team in Hinton to learn about block layout. As a part of the spatial harvest sequence,
September 10, 2015 11:22 am Leave your thoughts
This will be the last of my blogs, so thank you once again to the sponsors and you the readers! I hope that things were up to snuff and entertaining enough for everyone. It’s been a slice and has allowed me to reflect on the shenanigans and adventures of the summer.
So the 21st was my last day of work and my life hasn’t slowed a bit;
September 10, 2015 11:15 am Leave your thoughts
As I write this blog I am sitting in my trailer on my last night in camp, it’s been a pretty interesting 7 weeks and time has really flown by. It’s hard to think close to the last two months of my summer work term have been spent in a remote location at the end of the east arm of Quesnel Lake.
September 10, 2015 11:02 am Leave your thoughts
August? Didn’t I just write exams? Didn’t I just get here? I honestly do not know where the time went or why summer always has to fly by. Before I even begin to reflect upon my past few weeks here in Hudson Bay, I want to truly emphasize how much I enjoyed this summer break in Saskatchewan (of all places) with Weyerhaeuser.