The biggest challenges facing the forest sector currently are dealing with labour availability, maintaining a competitive fibre supply, and having flexibility in the supply chain to react quickly to market demands. Driven by the need to respond to these challenges, FPInnovations launched the Forestry 4.0 program.
Les plus grands défis actuels du secteur forestier concernent la disponibilité de la main-d’oeuvre, le maintien d’un approvisionnement en fibre concurrentiel et une flexibilité de la chaîne d’approvisionnement lui permettant de répondre rapidement aux demandes du marché. Pour relever ces défis, FPInnovations a lancé le programme Foresterie 4.0.
FPInnovations prepared this guide to provide forest and
resource workers with information on maintaining and monitoring streambed simulation in closed-bottom structures for fish streams. This pamphlet is the fourth in a series. FPInnovations worked in close co-operation with British Columbia's Fish Passage Technical Working Group in the development of this guide.
The constant increase in fuel prices has highlighted the importance of limiting consumption. This guide looks at various ways of controlling fuel costs and makes specific suggestions for different logging machines such as harvesters, feller-bunchers, forwarders, skidders and delimbers.
Fuel
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L’augmentation constante des prix de carburant a fait ressortir l’importance d’en limiter la consommation. Le présent guide traite des divers moyens de contrôler les coûts de carburant et fournit des suggestions spécifiques aux différents engins forestiers tels que les abatteuses-façonneuses, les abatteuses-groupeuses, les porteurs, les débardeurs et les ébrancheuses.
The forest industry annually constructs low-cost seasonal winter roads to maintain wood supply to mills. Installing temporary water crossings rather than permanent crossings on these roads can reduce costs significantly. However, this means that the construction equipment has to return to remove the structures. When they are built according to best practices, temporary water crossings can respect fish habitat values and protect water quality. This guide will show you the various means of installing and removing temporary water crossings on winter roads. You will also find suggested methods for erosion and sediment control.
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L’industrie forestière aménage annuellement des chemins d’hiver pour maintenir l’approvisionnement de bois à ses usines. Ces chemins sont généralement construits à moindre coût. Les ouvrages temporaires pour traverser les cours d’eau sont d’ailleurs souvent moins dispendieux que les installations permanentes. Ils requièrent toutefois le retour de la machinerie pour procéder au démantèlement des ouvrages. Lorsqu’ils sont construits selon les règles de l’art, les ouvrages temporaires aident à protéger l’habitat du poisson et la qualité de l’eau. Dans ce guide, vous découvrirez les techniques possibles pour installer et retirer les ouvrages temporaires pour traverser les cours d’eau dans les chemins d’hiver. Des conseils sont également précisés pour éviter les apports de sédiments vers les milieux aquatiques.
The forest industry annually constructs low-cost seasonal winter roads to maintain wood supply to mills. Installing temporary water crossings rather than permanent crossings on these roads can reduce costs significantly. However, this means that the construction equipment has to return to remove the structures. When they are built according to best practices, temporary water crossings can respect fish habitat values and protect water quality. This guide will show you the various means of installing and removing temporary water crossings on winter roads. You will also find suggested methods for erosion and sediment control.
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L’industrie forestière aménage annuellement des chemins d’hiver pour maintenir l’approvisionnement de bois à ses usines. Ces chemins sont généralement construits à moindre coût. Les ouvrages temporaires pour traverser les cours d’eau sont d’ailleurs souvent moins dispendieux que les installations permanentes. Ils requièrent toutefois le retour de la machinerie pour procéder au démantèlement des ouvrages. Lorsqu’ils sont construits selon les règles de l’art, les ouvrages temporaires aident à protéger l’habitat du poisson et la qualité de l’eau. Dans ce guide, vous découvrirez les techniques possibles pour installer et retirer les ouvrages temporaires pour traverser les cours d’eau dans les chemins d’hiver. Des conseils sont également précisés pour éviter les apports de sédiments vers les milieux aquatiques.
A recent study at the University of British Columbia and FPInnovations has established a link between wood and human health. In the study the presence of visual wood surfaces in a room lowered sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activation. The SNS is responsible for physiological stress responses in humans. This result opens the door to a myriad of stress-related health benefits that the presence of wood may afford in the built environment. The application of wood to promote health indoors is a new tool for practitioners of evidence-based design.
Wood & Human Health Series; Issue 1 dealing with wood aesthetics
General information related to the SmartDriver SmartDriver for Forestry Trucks, a training program developed by FPInnovations - Feric Division with funding from Natural Resources Canada’s ecoEnergy for Fleets program, covers all This guide is a quick summary of some of the key points covered in the SmartDriver for Forestry Trucks program.
This research work involved the production of aspen OSB panels in a pilot plant using three types of commercial adhesive systems respectively as a wood binder (PF, PF/MDI and MDI). It was demonstrated that spraying urea aqueous solution to dry wood strands at 0.2% and 0.5% urea loading rates (urea solids on a dry wood weight basis) can effectively reduce the emissions of formaldehyde, acrolein and some other volatile organic compounds from OSB pressing without adversely affecting the board properties regardless which type of adhesive is used. The side-effect of the urea addition was the dramatic increase of press emission of nitrogen compounds, most likely due to the slow decomposition of urea to ammonia at high press temperatures. This approach may also be effectively and economically applied to lowering formaldehyde, acrolein and VOC emissions from OSB dryer and the side-effect of increased nitrogen compounds emission could be less due to lower wood temperatures inside the OSB dryer than those inside the OSB press.
It was also demonstrated that using MDI adhesive to partially or completely replace PF adhesive can lower formaldehyde, phenol and total VOC emissions from OSB pressing. Under the test conditions of this work and without urea addition, the MDI-bonded aspen OSB panels emitted about 87% less formaldehyde, 80% less phenol and 25% less water-soluble VOC than the PF-bonded aspen OSB panels. The PF/MDI-bonded aspen OSB panels emitted about 61% less formaldehyde, 41% less phenol and 11% less water-soluble VOC than the same PF-bonded panels. However, the MDI-bonded panels produced 65% higher water-insoluble VOC than that of the PF-bonded panels although the water-insoluble VOC accounted for less than 3% of the total VOC emitted from the MDI-bonded panels.
