2026 Wildfire Season

[childs56]

Cut stumpage to $0.25 m3, like they did for the beetle kill wood, and get out of the way... with some guard rails of course.

The forest industry is dying in BC due to onerous government policies pandering to ill informed, green washed urban BC voters who regularly return the NDP to power, and who suffer no ill effects from burning interior villages apart from some smoke in their lattes.

Meanwhile across the border (in Alberta) they have almost half the costs as I understand it, so that's where companies like Canfor are going. There, and the SE states. But you'd know more about that than me,

Mills are closing in Ab as quick as they are in BC.
The closures have more to do with the US market then what ever a local government is doing.
It will turn around and hopefully this time we get our thousand dollar bills instead of ten dollar bills.

 

[foresterab]

Cut stumpage to $0.25 m3, like they did for the beetle kill wood, and get out of the way... with some guard rails of course.

The forest industry is dying in BC due to onerous government policies pandering to ill informed, green washed urban BC voters who regularly return the NDP to power, and who suffer no ill effects from burning interior villages apart from some smoke in their lattes.

Meanwhile across the border (in Alberta) they have almost half the costs as I understand it, so that's where companies like Canfor are going. There, and the SE states. But you'd know more about that than me,

Still need to a have a market to deliver to. I have clients who log mostly cheap wood...but it's byproduct/slash piles from a sawlog company. And it's only about 20% of the area before the trucking kills the option. And no reforestation requirement as the sawmill does that.

Canfor just shuttered a mill in Alberta two weeks ago citing market tariffs and decreasing wood supply. Fires have been bad here too and with the end of the MPB surge cuts fiber is in tight supply. When you're facing 50% tariffs on lumber its amazing anyone is operating in Canada.