2007 Mill Prices Paid For Pulpwood

history of nswooa

We are the oldest independent woodlot owners and operators group in the province, a unique association that has taken a firm stance in both advocating for woodlot owners' rights and in promoting environmentally centered, socially responsible, and economically balanced forestry. Welcome to our website, where you will find informative research papers, postings about NSWOOA events, and links to partners sharing aspects of our vision for healthy forests and communities. The NSWOOA has its roots in the pre-industrial era of rural Nova Scotia. Over 30,000 small woodlot owners hold title to half of the province’s forests. In general, the small woodlots are found on more productive ground and are more easily accessible than remote industrial freehold or Crown woodland. Prior to 1960, woodlot owners had little opportunity to benefit financially from woodlot management, as markets were characterized by oversupply of roundwood and control of prices was in the hands of the buyers. Woodlot management simply did not pay. Consequently, private woodlots were increasingly being degraded by poor harvesting practices or were sold to industrial interests. The construction of a pulpmill in Port Hawkesbury by Swedish multinational Stora Kopparburg in 1960 was followed by a modern mill in Pictou County by American corporation Scott Paper in 1965. By the time Stora expanded its operation at Port Hawkesbury in 1971, consumption of pulpwood in Nova Scotia had almost quadrupled in less than a decade. Pulpwood from small private woodlots now found a market which had been historically absent, although the prices paid for that wood continued to be abysmally low, and woodlot owners had gained no power or influence in the marketplace. This industrial development largely provided the impetus for woodlot owners in central and eastern Nova Scotia to begin serious organizational efforts. In the late 1960’s, the Extension Department of St Francis Xavier University in Antigonish sponsored a project, funded through the federal Agricultural and Rural Development Agreement, to organize woodlot owners at the county level across the province. After three years of kitchen table negotiations and town hall meetings, twelve county associations convened a general meeting in January of 1969, at which the Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners Association (NSWOA) was formed.

Renewable energy from forest resources in the United States

Farming with fire and water, the human ecology of a composite swiddening community in Vietnam's northern mountains

Resource and market projections for forest policy development, twenty-five years of experience with the U.S. RPA timber assessment

The Value line investment survey

The Northern logger and timber processor