July 7, 2014 10:17 am Leave your thoughts
Even though I love words, it is true that pictures can say thousands of them in an instant. These are some moments in my day that stopped me in my tracks to capture the beauty of that moment. Enjoy!
Raging water during the snow melt in Nebskawshi River near my home for the summer.
Trees reflected in a thawing bog along a hiking trail.
July 3, 2014 10:34 am Leave your thoughts
The past couple of weeks have been some of the busiest so far. The 2014 planting season is now officially completed, with over 2 million trees planted throughout the last two months. While the planting season was winding down the site preparation program was just starting up.
One of the tasks that has been taking up the bulk of my time lately has been going out to recently harvested cut blocks,
July 3, 2014 9:48 am Leave your thoughts
I’m having such a great experience working for Millar Western this summer. I am grateful not only for this internship opportunity but as well for the other awesome things that have come with moving out here to Alberta.
I’ve spent some time camping with my friends up north on Freeman Lake. We we’re lucky enough to get some great weather,
June 30, 2014 11:08 am Leave your thoughts
Hey guys, sorry I’ve been a little behind on the blog posts lately but as per usual it’s easy to stay busy around here. These past few weeks have been all about new experiences for me. I went in my first helicopter ride; unfortunately I was way too excited about the whole situation and it never even cross my mind to take any pictures,
June 30, 2014 10:00 am Leave your thoughts
This past two weeks I have been fairly busy. I am also starting to get more comfortable with my role and I am starting to adjust well. I get feedback from the machine monitoring and make adjustments as needed in order to keep the lumber on target size. I have also made a few work instruction manuals for other employees to trouble shoot the machinery when management or myself are not around to help.
June 26, 2014 3:45 pm Leave your thoughts
This past weekend, I had the honor of volunteering as a timekeeper at the Stihl Timbersports Series Western Qualifier, held in Fort Saskatchewan, just outside of Edmonton. Timbersports is not hugely popular in Alberta (they are more of an East coast thing), so it was pretty exciting to be able to help out at such an important event. For those that don’t know,
June 26, 2014 2:54 pm Leave your thoughts
Hello everyone! The month of June has passed us by very quickly. We only have one week left! Crazy to think about how fast time went by and it is officially summer. We are on our second group of planters I get to meet them today and see how well they do on their first day. I am more prepared for them this time,
June 17, 2014 7:03 pm Leave your thoughts
Hello again folks, and welcome back to another blog from AV Nackawic. Since writing my last blog, I’ve had a lot of new experiences here in Nackawic. The most startling aspect of my job is the scale at which everything happens. Every couple of days I will be in a different part of the mill and I will see something that is much bigger that I imagined it would be.
June 17, 2014 6:49 pm Leave your thoughts
Before moving to Princeton one of things that I was most nervous about spending my summer here was the possibility of having nothing to do on weekends or in my spare time. I was moving to a small town in British Columbia from which I had no contacts other than my future coworkers that I had been communicating with leading up to the internship.
June 17, 2014 6:46 pm Leave your thoughts
Some things I’ve learned while working in this industry:
• Whitecourt has been named Canada’s Forestry capital for the second year running. How lucky is it that I get to work here?
• Canadian forests are replenished and consumed at a sustainable rate, ensuring the resource's infinite resilience. Sustainability isn't a 'saying' here; it’s a commitment.
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June 10, 2014 10:23 am Leave your thoughts
Hello everyone, this is only my second blog post, but it seems like so much has happened since my last entry. The last two weeks I have been learning how to use a program named MOPS as well as experimenting with pivot tables in Microsoft Excel. After spending only a couple of hours with both tools, I was struck by how significantly computational power has affected the capability of engineers to efficiently monitor and control chemical processes.
June 10, 2014 10:11 am Leave your thoughts
Thanks to the awesome team at Tolko, I really do love my job – but it doesn’t seem to make it any easier to pull myself out of bed on a Monday morning. I spent a little too much time dreaming big this morning – I slept right through my alarm. I got out of bed at around 7:30 AM, got myself ready and I was out the door by 7:50 AM for work at 8:00 AM.
June 10, 2014 9:28 am Leave your thoughts
Hello! My name is Jeremy Woo, and I am a business student at the University of Calgary. Last year, I served as a human resources intern at Tolko Industries in my beautiful hometown of Vernon, British Columbia. I am incredibly excited to be back at Tolko’s corporate human resources department again, this time working with the compensation and benefits team on exciting new projects.
June 9, 2014 2:32 pm Leave your thoughts
Well another 2 weeks have gone by which means I have even more exciting stuff to tell you guys about! Last week was pretty standard with being out in the bush, I did my first full block assessment of season. So basically what this entails is going into a cut block, after the planters are finished, and throwing a plot every 100 metres.
June 9, 2014 2:10 pm Leave your thoughts
Hey guys, I have been having lots of fun for the past couple weeks since my last blog. I have also learned very well how to get stuck and get a tow out. While I have been working, I’ve been looking back at how far I have come since high school. Going from high school to College is one of the scariest and exciting times I have had in my life,
June 9, 2014 1:16 pm Leave your thoughts
In case anyone is wondering, my name is Kyle. I am working for Millar Western in Whitecourt as a roads summer student. Even though summer has been here for almost a month, I have only just started working for Millar Western. I spent the first three weeks of my summer at a field school in Lac la Biche, a required course for my degree in Forestry at the U of A.
June 3, 2014 2:25 pm Leave your thoughts
I would like to start my blog by expressing my gratitude to AV Nackawic for their willingness to be involved with such an incredible program, and to the Forest Products Association of Canada for organizing these opportunities. These student positions give us the opportunity to experience an industry setting before we graduate from our respective universities. If it wasn’t for these opportunities,
June 3, 2014 2:18 pm Leave your thoughts
Blog #2 Keeping Busy at Weyerhaeuser
Since starting my Internship with Weyerhaeuser the main question that friends and family have been asking me is what kind of jobs I am doing here. So I thought throughout the week I would take pictures and write a blog about some of the jobs that are keeping me busy!
Ribboning Planting boundaries for planters is important and can be done for many different reasons.
June 3, 2014 2:16 pm Leave your thoughts
It’s difficult to believe that I’ve been working at Millar Western for a month now. With everything that I’ve been up to, the time has passed so quickly. Some fun things that I’ve been working on include lab testing and recording of particulate matter and chemicals in the plant effluent, charting values, field work for ground water quality sampling and testing,
May 30, 2014 10:36 am Leave your thoughts
Hi everyone, I think I forgot to introduce myself in my first blog so I will do it in this one. I have just recently completed my second year at University of Toronto as an Electrical & Computer Engineering student. I will be studying in depth into Control Systems and Energy Systems while pursuing a minor in Engineer Business.
My internship here at Canfor’s Mackenzie Sawmill has been great and I have been exposed to many control systems used here in the sawmill and the planer.
May 28, 2014 9:27 am Leave your thoughts
When first applying for this position, I had no idea what to expect. New forest, first forestry job, none of my usual comforts acquired through my last 8 years on Vancouver Island. Needless to say, I was all nerves….Would my university education actually prepare me for the industry (a huge concern for many university students!)? Would I actually like it?
May 26, 2014 8:36 pm Leave your thoughts
I am all done my training and officially started my job! Yay! My job this summer is to check the quality of the trees that planters (contractors hired by Millar Western) put into the ground. This is the first time I have ever been looking over other people’s work, which is a huge responsibility, because their pay is determined by the quality of the planting.
May 26, 2014 8:31 pm Leave your thoughts
Hello all my name is Chris, and I am the Mechanical Engineer Intern for Canfor in Bear Lake. I am originally from Hamilton Ontario and I take Mechanical Engineering Technology at Mohawk College. Let me tell you a little about my past.
So I am in my 3rd and final year of my program in college, and this is my 3rd of the 4 internships I must complete,
May 26, 2014 8:25 pm Leave your thoughts
To open this series of blog posts I would like to thank Daishowa-Marubeni (DMI) and the green dream work force for this excellent learning opportunity in the forestry sector. Just last semester I completed my third year of chemical engineering and I am now working at DMI in the technical department of their pulp mill from May to the end of August.
May 23, 2014 9:16 am Leave your thoughts
Hi I’m Brooke and I will be completing my Green Dream internship with Weyerhaeuser Timberlands in Grande Prairie, Alberta. It’s hard to believe I’m already headed into week 2 up here; everything’s been a whirlwind of activity between leaving Ontario and getting settled up here in Alberta. Flying on my own was a new experience in itself on top of moving to a location where you literally know no one.