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Western Silvicultural Contractors' Association
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WSCA Current Affairs
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Saturday, May 25, 2013
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Mixed response to spending, tax cuts
Jan 27, 2009 - The Conservative government added tax cuts to infrastructure spending in its economic stimulus federal budget Tuesday, while also extending unemployment benefits for laidoff workers.
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PRT Announces Closure of Tree Seedling Nursery
Oct 2, 2008 - Pacific Regeneration Technologies Inc. announced today that it will close PRT Pelton, its seedling nursery facility in Maple Ridge, BC. The closure will take place in phases over the next few months and will result in the eventual layoff of approximately 60 employees. Read More...
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Should Tree Planters be Losing Sleep over Losing Sleep?
May 8, 2013 - Sleep scientists say as a society we owe ourselves more sleep. Sleep debt is seen as a major threat to health and welfare. What effect is fatigue likely to have then in the workplace when silviculture planters work long days at an intense pace? Are workers getting enough sleep and does lack of a good night's rest put us in jeopardy? Professional athletes are learning to manage sleep. Should workers do the same? Read More...
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Protecting BC Communities From Wildfire Could Create Thousands of Jobs
Mar 15, 2013 - Protecting communities from burning forests and climate change could provide hundreds of year-round jobs for B.C. forestry workers. The costs of creating those jobs would not have to all come from the provincial treasury if leaders can create an economy around re-habilitating the province’s beleaguered forests. Just how that might happen will be covered in the April 10-13, 2013 Western Wildfire Conference. Read More...
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Pre-season Wrist Training Will Reduce Injuries
Mar 12, 2013 - Sports mechanic and fitness expert Dr. Delia Roberts has worked with the BC SAFE Silviculture Program to produce a quick guide to training up your wrists and forearms for this year's planting season. The pamphlet also includes tactics for keeping yourself fit during the season and how to recover quickly from repetitive strain symptoms. Wrist and forearms are the principal and vulnerable pivot points for planting and silviculture saw work. They can better resist the onslaught of hard work through increasing strength and flexibility. They can be brought back into use quicker through proper massage and the use of heat and cold. Read More...
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Town Hall Meeting in March Features Forestry Questions for Politicians
Feb 21, 2013 - This being election season, foresters and forestry contractors want to know where politicians stand on forestry funding and policy heading into the vote. Two of the province's Silviculture Committees and the Canadian Institute of Forestry are asking stakeholders to submit their questions so they can be raised in a public town hall forum in Kamloops at the Thompson River University campus 6 March 2013. Read More...
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Are we at the limits of piece-work?
Jan 23, 2013 - Repetition, strains, fatigue and overwork along with attendant slips, trips and falls cost the silviculture sector almost a million dollars in claims each year. Is it possible that industry has reached its peak capacity for production and is now paying the costs in injuries and lost productivity? This is one consideration new strategies to reduce musculoskeletal injuries will have to consider. Read More...
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WSCA Conference Focuses on Defining Restoration
Jan 14, 2013 - Forest restoration is a term gaining currency. But what does it actually mean as a policy and a practice in this post-mountain-pine-beetle time? Which raises the question of what is meant by post-mountain-pine-beetle? Is the beetle and its impacts actually over? And what might all this mean for the silviculture industry? These are just some of the topics the WSCA restoration panel of senior policy-makers and politicians will be asked to discuss at the WSCA annual conference. Read More...
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May 14, 2013 - Presentations for the 2013 Western Wildfire Conference are now available following a very informative and interesting program. The presentations include narratives of the effects of fire on communities in both North America and Australia as well as practical and scientific reports on strategies to manage, mitigate and better understand wild fire fire behaviour. To see the presentations go to the 2013 Western Wildfire Conference website at:
