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Bruce was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and grew up in the midst of the logging industry. Atearly age Bruce’s entrepreneurial skills were already evident; he rented a neighbor's horse and took on a logging contract with Great Lakes Forest Products Ltd. Subsequently, Bruce workedat the Caterpillar dealer in product support.Bruce thentook on the challenge of superintendent at the head office of Canadian Longyear in North Bay, Ontario. Canadian Longyear is a mining and drilling equipment producer. In this position, he was responsible for mobilizing entire drilling operations to destinations as far away as the Northwest Territoriesand South Africa. Bruce’s abilities were recognized when the corporation offered him the control of an entire expansion program in Australia. However, Bruce declined the position and moved to Thunder Bay, where he held a number of positions in the logging and construction industries.
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Logging is just about the most dangerous line of work in the U.S. The risk involved in logging affects not just the health of the industry's workforce, but ... the sustainability of logging, especially in New Hampshire's North Country. Jim Hourdequin is the Executive Director of the Yankee Forest Safety Network, which was created to make working conditions safer for loggers. He talked with John about the connection between safety and sustainability in the logging industry.
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The Forestry and Logging industry employed about 4,500 Albertans in 2005. The industry is expected to grow by a yearly average of 0.4 per cent, employing about 4,600 in 2010. The 2005 unemployment rate was 2.8 per cent (the average for all industries was 3.9 per cent).
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Helicopter logging was clearly an idea whose time had come-a natural progression in the forest industry. It quickly became an important component of harvesting because of new environmental standards-it is probably the least invasive type of logging-and the increasing difficulty of accessing timber by conventional road systems. "Helicopter logging was one of the harvesting services that the industry was requiring," says Harold. But for Hayes Forest, moving into helicopter logging was a natural progression.
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The gradual mechanization of Newfoundland and Labrador's logging industry during the second half of the twentieth century profoundly changed the way loggers worked and interacted with forest ecosystems. Employment in the woods decreased as mill operators began to rely less on manpower and more on machinery to harvest timber. Logging ... shifted from a seasonal to year-round industry that employed formally trained specialists instead of the fisher-loggers of the past.
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Terry Lynn Barton faces twenty years in prison while the timber industry licks its lips at the prospect of "salvage logging" the Colorado forests. "Light it and log it," as the old phrase goes. Once a forest burns, existing restrictions go out the window, the Forest Service offers up 100,000 acres for salvaging, and in go the timber companies, hauling out the timber, immune to environmental restrictions. You don't think timber companies have setting fires for years, often with Forest Service complicity?
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