National Hardwood Magazine - March 2012

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When it comes to Hardwood or Southern Yellow Pine Lumber, Eastern Lumber Corporation gives you competitive prices, and we stand tall on service. For you at Eastern Lumber we offer: • A Southern Yellow Pine concentration yard in Orangeburg, S.C. • Green and air dried Appalachian, Northern and Southern Hardwoods; and green, air dried and kiln dried Southern Pine. • Export packaging & container loading. • Experienced personnel. Eastern Lumber Corporation Headquarters: 338 St. Paul St. N.E. Orangeburg, S.C. 29116 Tel: (803) 531-1887 FAX: (803) 533-0195 Sales: Russell and Leonard Blanchard, Ed Holley, Jim Shepherd & David Turner Youʼll like doing business with us because we follow through on your orders and we do what we say weʼll do! Hardwood Forestry Fund Plants trees for future lumber and veneer harvests. Contributions are tax-deductible. Call (877) 433-8733 www.hardwoodforestryfund.org hffund@hpva.org QUEBEC TRENDS - Continued from page 7 Minister and the Agriculture Minister who is also responsible for forestry, local candidate Luc Ferland, the Parti Québécois MNA for Ungava, the huge northern riding taking in most of the Plan Nord’s 1.2 million square kilometres, or 72 percent of Quebec’s total area, and the Quebec City Mayor, who lead a delegation representing about 25 Quebec City and area businesses interested in Plan Nord contracts. Charest noted, for every job the Plan Nord creates in the north, two will be created in the south to supply and support the mining, energy, tourism and forestry jobs created. Earlier, Charest and the Quebec City Mayor, along with the business delegation, met Cree business leaders in Oujébougoumou, a village of 800 built in the 1990s, to discuss possible partnerships under the Plan Nord. The Crees had opposed the James Bay hydroelectrical developments in drawn-out litigation, dating back to the 1970s. The dispute led to agreements with the Canadian and Quebec governments to fund Cree health care and education services, as well as economic development. The Cree and Inuit of Quebec’s north have signed on to the Plan Nord, as have some – but not all – Innu First Nations, who first want an agreement recognizing their ancestral rights. The Crees are developing tourism in the region, as well as construction, while training their young people for mining and other resource jobs. The band hired the renowned Cree architect Douglas Cardinal to design the major buildings and in conceiving the modern housing for the community, a central heating plant, fired with sawdust from the Chibougamau sawmill, was built, with a system of underground pipes to all homes and other buildings. The system heats Oujé-bougoumou’s 225 homes and provides hot water. ONTARIO TRENDS - Continued from page 7 needed if the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) and the Ministry of Northern Development, Mines and Forestry (MNDMF) are to have adequate assurance about the longterm sustainability of Ontario’s Crown forests.” The report also raises concerns with the MNR’s diligence to complete “core tasks” in its monitoring program of forest regeneration efforts. Ultimately, the responsibility of having the required data in place to ensure forests are managed properly and producing effectively lies with the current government. The critic continues in his writing that according to the Auditor, while millions in stumpage revenue was in arrears, the bigger and more astonishing issue is that 40 percent of the total is related to companies that had declared bankruptcy. It is noted that over 60 mills have closed under the Liberal watch in Ontario, and 45,000 resource sector jobs have disappeared in the North. Finally, the Auditor says about 10 percent of licenses issued to mills that had submitted business plans did not demonstrate an abil ity to adequately finance their facility. The Ministry must be more diligent to ensure unsustainable companies don’t tie up license and wood allotments that could go to sustainable foresters. 52 Hardwoods...The All-Purpose Material

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