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An energy conservation program announced by Ontario Energy and Infrastructure Minister, Brad Duguid, could encourage energy management practices that will have both a positive environmental impact and a positive impact on the competitiveness of several key Ontario industries.

TimberWest Forest Corp. has announced that it has registered its strongest normalized quarterly results in three years. The Company attributed its improved performance to an increase in sales and prices both domestically and abroad during the quarter.

In a letter to the U.S. Green Building Council, 79 members of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing 35 different states, have urged the organization to "accept all credible forest certification systems for qualification under the LEED rating system" including the Sustainable Forestry Initiative.

EACOM Timber Corporation is pleased to announce that it has completed the acquisition of the Forest Products business of Domtar Corporation. The purchase was funded out of the previously announced $145 million private placement. EACOM has acquired seven sawmills and an equity interest in an eighth sawmill, all located in Eastern Canada.

The Telly Awards is an international competition that recognizes the work of media professionals in the Advertising, Broadcast, Online and Multimedia fields. The Pacific Forest Foundation's new video "This Is My Office" was entered into the category of Online Recruitment and was awarded the highest award offered in the competition.

The federal government has been ordered to pay more than $67-million to the owners of a defunct Yukon sawmill after a judge found that a former Liberal minister encouraged construction of the mill, only to have his departmental staff starve it of wood.

Deere was very conservative in its outlook for 2010 and limited its inventory and production. So now they find themselves with much stronger demand and tight supply

The Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) forest certification program announced its new Conservation and Community Partnerships Grant program today, furthering its long-standing commitment to research and bringing together diverse partners, including SFI Program Participants, conservation groups, and several government agencies, to deliver conservation benefits across North America and tackle illegal logging issues globally.

Today 21 member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC), and nine leading environmental organizations, unveiled an unprecedented agreement — the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement — that applies to 72 million hectares of public forests licensed to FPAC members. The Agreement, when fully implemented, will conserve significant areas of Canada's vast Boreal Forest, protect threatened woodland caribou and provide a competitive market edge for participating companies.

The Government of Canada is investing $2.5 million in the construction and operation of the Vancouver Pavilion at Expo 2010. Officials attended the official on-site ribbon cutting ceremony in Shanghai, China today. This project is one of six offshore demonstration projects that support the use of Canadian wood in construction.

Over the past three years, Canadian forestry has suffered through one of the worst periods in its history. And for an industry already facing seasonal decline, there were several possible factors that could have aggravated the problem. Most of them came true.

"The decline in US housing markets reached levels not seen in more than 50 years, and the general economic downturn has created difficult operating conditions for our company and our forest product industry customers in the past few years...." says president and CEO of PRT Forest Regeneration Income Fund, Rob Miller.

Illegal logging in Indonesia, a leading timber exporter, is threatening jobs in the U.S. forest products industry and undermining efforts to use forests to fight climate change, a report by U.S. labour and green groups says.

Ontario cabinet minister Michael Gravelle announced Friday some long-awaited reforms to the way forests are managed. They include the creation of between five and 15 local forest management corporations, which would replace 47 management units.