Natural Resources committee  Our difficulties were in drying it and having the space to dry it properly. In an urban application, you don't necessarily get the choice to harvest it at the proper time. You could be harvesting trees full of water, different species that have lots of water in them. When you g

Natural Resources committee  I'm not sure I understand your question.

Natural Resources committee  As I said, I think that if we process more of the lumber here.... I had a small forestry company that just took down trees. I had to add the next steps in house in order to be able to overcome some of my challenges, namely, keeping employees, versus the seasonality of logging or

Natural Resources committee  When you want to go for a good cup of coffee, quick, cheap, and still have a great cup of coffee, Tim Hortons has that solution. If you pictured the Tim Hortons of the forestry industry, with a shop that you could step into to pick the right log for the right purpose and get a wo

Natural Resources committee  Sorry was that for me?

Natural Resources committee  Yes, please.

Natural Resources committee  We take anything and everything. When you build everything from a pen blank all the way up to cabins and housing, you can use everything. We do take more of the structural spruce and pine. We don't have any fir around where we are. Typically that goes into our timber framing, bea

Natural Resources committee  It's lathe work. Because of what I do, a woodworking guild found me right away in my very first few years. We host different types of meetings at our facility because they have access to local woods. They were always buying these awesome imported woods, and as people learned and

Natural Resources committee  We're such a small company we don't really have a ratio. Say, we took 10 trees to build a little project or 100 trees to build a cabin or something like that. We like to recognize our plantings as that. When we plant, we're typically planting with our smaller spade, a 36-inch roo

Natural Resources committee  When you look at a large company that employs lots of people, the same can be accomplished with hundreds of small businesses doing the same thing. When you take a large approach, it's usually a big processing plant. When you go to bioenergy, wood chips, or large amounts of biomas

Natural Resources committee  I would like to thank you guys for the opportunity to be a part of providing some solutions for secondary products in the forestry sector. I'll tell you a little about myself. Since 1991, fresh out of high school, I was in the oil and gas industry as a seismic faller in line cl

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I can.

Natural Resources committee  I'm in Edmonton right now for a conference, but we live in Red Deer.