June 10, 2019 6:14 pm Leave your thoughts
WOW, so I’ve been fortunate enough to have been accepted as a 2019 Green Dream Intern! I am honestly so excited to share with you what my everyday work day looks like, the community I live in and what the community has to offer.
A little bit about me (I’ll keep it short, we want to hear about the cool stuff,
June 10, 2019 3:13 pm Leave your thoughts
Welcome to my first ever blog, Green Dream or otherwise! I am very excited to have this opportunity to share my summer experiences in the forestry industry. For this first blog I am going to give you a bit of background on myself, share some of my experiences so far, and give a bit of a preview of the blogs to come.
June 10, 2019 3:10 pm Leave your thoughts
A forestry student’s favourite time of year is back! Summer student field season starts soon after finals the first week of May when we all spread out to forestry towns across the province and country to work for sawmills and contractors. I am very happy to be back in Alberta working for well-known forestry company; Millar Western Forest Products Ltd.
June 10, 2019 3:07 pm Leave your thoughts
Salutations! Welcome to this Green Dream blog.
Since this is the first blog, I shall introduce myself briefly. My name is Dan Tran, and am the Engineering Intern hired at Weyerhaeuser’s Edson OSB mill. I am still working on my electrical engineering degree and have just completed my second year at the University of Calgary. I am Calgarian-born and have taken all three levels of schooling there.
June 10, 2019 3:01 pm Leave your thoughts
Salutations internet!
I’m Joshua Kranabetter and I will be your personal guide through a summer adventure as a control systems student.
On a typical evening you can find me in my workshop either dissecting old electronics or building my own. Either affair will inevitably be accompanied by hot coffee and 80s techno. I am project oriented and driven by a need to understand how things work.
June 10, 2019 2:45 pm 1 Comment
Hello readers,
My name is Calvin Jensen. I am an Environmental Sciences Summer Student at Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries Inc. (Al-Pac). The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) has provided me with the opportunity to share a bi weekly blog about my experiences in the forest industry. I’m very excited to share the work I’ll be doing with you each week.
November 5, 2018 3:57 pm Leave your thoughts
Hello, hello!
For anyone new to my blog series, my name is Courtney Jackson, and I am a fourth-year student at Lakehead University (LU) in Thunder Bay, enrolled in the Honours Bachelor of Science in Forestry! This past summer I was employed at Resolute Forest Products as their Woodlands Operations Intern in Thunder Bay, and it was one of the best experiences in my life!
October 9, 2018 1:45 pm Leave your thoughts
Hello world, welcome back to my blog!
School has begun and I’ve been busy reading, writing and completing assignments for my classes at Lakehead University (LU). This year is a bit different than last year as I decided to switch my degree midway through the summer. Instead of pursuing environmental management at LU, I switched into forestry! My summer employment at Resolute Forest Products as their Woodlands Operations Intern was what inspired me to switch.
September 25, 2018 9:30 am Leave your thoughts
**WE INTERRUPT THIS BROADCAST FOR A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT**
Working for Millar Western, I have had the pleasure to be a member of an extraordinary community. Recently, I had the opportunity to speak to Millar Western President and CEO, Craig Armstrong, about what makes Millar Western exceptional.
As the President and CEO of Millar Western,
September 14, 2018 3:04 pm Leave your thoughts
Considering it’s the last week of September already, I guess I can officially say that summer is over 🙁 Luckily for me though, that doesn’t mean the end of my work term! My position with Tolko actually runs for 8 months, which means I will still be working here until December. As all of the other summer bloggers are undoubtedly heading back to school to finish their studies,
September 14, 2018 2:58 pm Leave your thoughts
Working with Millar Western has been one of my favorite professional experiences so far. Over the course of one summer, I have gained insight into the field of forest operations, have driven down some of the most beautiful quad trails of my life so far, and have effectively turned into a fish. In this final post, I’d like to review some of my highlights of working with Millar Western.
September 14, 2018 2:45 pm Leave your thoughts
One of my favorite things about working for Millar Western has been the endless learning opportunities that I have been presented with. On one particular occasion, I was lucky to be a part of a wetlands training for our woodlands office put on by Ducks Unlimited Canada (DUC). The purpose of this training was to help our woodlands team gain a better understanding of the different classes of boreal wetlands that we may encounter during our field operations.
September 14, 2018 2:38 pm Leave your thoughts
A forester’s cruise vest carries all the gear needed for the day. Here are the essentials that you can always find in mine:
September 13, 2018 2:34 pm Leave your thoughts
Wow, time really flies! I can’t believe this is my last blog. It’s been an amazing experience and although I am back home in the hustle and bustle of the lower mainland, I will never forget the small town experience I had in Quesnel. I gave myself some time to really reflect on my experiences of this term. From the amazing people I met,
September 13, 2018 2:34 pm Leave your thoughts
On the last weekend of my internship, most of the West Fraser interns went out to one of their cabins on Quesnel lake. Quesnel lake is one of the deepest lakes in BC with a depth of 2000 feet. After following the convoy of cars after work on Friday down a dirt and gravel road that likely took a few years off my little Subaru’s life,
September 12, 2018 3:28 pm Leave your thoughts
Welcome back to my blog!
Happy September everyone! It already feels like fall in Thunder Bay because the mornings are cool, and the air is crisp. As always, Thunder Bay is a beautiful place to be and often, the sun is shining. As I have previously mentioned in my other blogs, there is an endless number of things to do and see here north-western,
September 11, 2018 3:24 pm Leave your thoughts
So now I’m back in the Queen City of Regina, Saskatchewan! People are back to school and I’m making an attempt to get my mind readjusted to student life. I have to turn the switch in my mind from mill worker to pre-service teacher.
We had our first day back in the classroom on Friday, August 31 and it was great to see all my old University friends once again.
September 11, 2018 3:13 pm 1 Comment
It’s over! I can’t believe how fast this summer flew by. It seems they get faster and faster every year. This summer was full of so many new experiences, such as fire fighting, silviculture surveys, helicopter rides, timber cruising; the list could go on. I am so thankful for the new friends I made and I hope we all cross paths again soon!
September 11, 2018 3:09 pm Leave your thoughts
Hello everyone! Today was my last bush day of the summer! My remaining two days are office days and clean up days. It’s unbelievable this is almost over. I’ve had such a great summer and am beyond relieved I expanded my comfort zone by taking this out-of-town position. Silviculture was a lot of fun, and I developed a huge interest in it.
September 11, 2018 3:01 pm Leave your thoughts
So my last day at Weyerhaeuser has come and gone. With it I’ve gained a newfound respect for the forest products industry and the amount of time and effort that goes not only into the manufacturing of the OSB, but also the time spent on ensuring safe work practices. I’d like to personally thank everyone I worked with and everyone who helped teach me along the way.
September 11, 2018 2:53 pm 1 Comment
Well folks, this will be my last blog as a Green Dream Intern. My co-op term is finished, and I am returning to university for my final year of Chemical Engineering. It will be bitter sweet leaving LP. I made so many great memories and have learned so many valuable things that will benefit me in my future career, but am I looking forward to returning to school and finishing up my degree.
September 11, 2018 2:47 pm Leave your thoughts
Okay friends, it’s time I gave you an update on all the exciting things I’ve been doing at work. Because believe me, it has been VERY exciting (at least to me).
The project that I have been working on for the past 4 months (the one I described in blog #2) is finally being rolled out into the Sawmill.
September 7, 2018 2:05 pm Leave your thoughts
September 7, 2018 10:51 am Leave your thoughts
In this blog, I will show you readers some pictures I took of my lunch hour walks with my supervisor during my time at LP. Luckily enough, the LP East River mill is located near a beautiful trail system called Rails to Trails. This series of trails received its name because the railways that were once there were quite literally converted into trails.
September 4, 2018 4:10 pm Leave your thoughts
In this blog I will be talking about some of the miscellaneous things that I have done throughout the summer that haven’t made it in any of my blogs yet.
I had a few trips to Dylan’s family cottage. They had actually just purchased the cottage in the fall of 2017, so this summer was the first summer we were able to go to there for some peaceful relaxation time.