July 3, 2013 1:45 pm Leave your thoughts
The past couple of weeks working here at Daishowa-Marubeni International Ltd. have been filled with excitement.
I spent the other day driving to hawk hills to assess logging road conditions there with a fellow co-worker. We went as far as we could by truck, and then hopped onto the quads to get into the heart of the bush.
July 2, 2013 10:33 am Leave your thoughts
My name is Connor Vale, and I am excited to now be a Green Dream Intern as well as part of the Millar Western team! My home is in Bowmanville, Ontario, and I am currently a student, studying toward a Bsc in Forestry at the University of British Columbia. My experiences thus far at Millar Western have been amazing, and I am very happy to accomplish what I had originally set out to do.
June 25, 2013 3:42 pm Leave your thoughts
So much has gone on recently! I have been given some interesting projects – for example, making -center lines on old and new forestry roads. As you might just guess, a center line marks where the center of a road is or will be, and is an important part of the blueprint for road building, maintenance and reclamation.
After I received this assignment,
June 24, 2013 1:17 pm Leave your thoughts
I have decided to take this particular entry in a separate direction from my previous blog posts, which had mostly been examining characteristics and responsibilities that were both encompassed by and related to the forest industry. In this post, I would like to shed light on what it has been like growing up in a community that is heavily influenced by the forestry sector and what I had and had not realized about this industry.
June 24, 2013 12:06 pm Leave your thoughts
This past week I was working in the seed orchard, which is owned by 5 different companies, Weyerhaeuser being one of them. There are 5 different orchards, mostly used for genetic research. Some of the trees were seedlings while others were grafted with scions and root stock. There are numerous boxes throughout the orchard with slides that catch pollen, which are replaced every two days to determine the amount of pollen contamination from outside the orchard.