Freya Logging Inc

08/13/2026

Bringing back bison is one way to reduce fire hazard in boreal forests. Conservation biology is moving away from preservation of sub species and towards letting herds mix. Modern bison have about 2 percent of their genes from cattle and all modern wood bison have some plains bison. But considering cows, wood bison, plains bison and European bison are all the same species of we use the definition “able to have viable offspring” perhaps we should focus on letting maple animals adapt to the ever changing earth while returning the land to something more closely correlated to how it looked before we removed 80 percent of the megafauna.

Paleogenomics research is revealing the complex history of bison, overturning assumptions about the ubiquity of cattle ancestry and showing that their decline did not markedly affect genetic diversity, although it has increased population fragmentation.

Learn more this week in Science: https://scim.ag/4fS98CF

08/13/2026

What’s better than a night celebrating than a greasy breakfast after in the bright sunshine?

08/13/2026

We had our 10 year anniversary shin dig on the weekend that included a forwarder face off. The winner won this Freya 10 year anniversary wrestling belt. We are so grateful for all the amazing people that continue to put our trust in us. A company isn’t a piece of paper in a lawyers office. A company is a group of people on a mission to make the world a better place.

08/13/2026

This summer when you see someone around PG that looks like they are from the Smokeanagan, remember that we all need to work together to help out during fire season.

08/13/2026

It’s always nice when the factory comes for a visit to make sure what they build works.

08/13/2026

Logging equipment ain’t what it used to be. In fact it’s much better!

08/13/2026

There are two narratives out there about wood remaining in BC. One says we are out of wood. The other says there is wood everywhere. What if they are both true? The we are out of wood crowd tends to have a loose association with the truth saying things like 99 percent of BC has been logged. These people have been bitterly disappointed to find out that indeed most of Canada and BC are not actually managed on the fall out associated with our southern Neighbours being mad about smoke.
But the we are out of wood crowd is right about one thing. We have logged off the best first. What remains is increasingly small, steep and less economical with higher levels of pulp and more cranky loggers 4 hours from their families in a camp.
That’s where it’s important to break it down into our main problem in BC. We have two forests left. One is the 15 million hectares we have logged so far. It’s the best forest, with deep soils and impressive stands of timber, even if it’s over dense young conifer, it’s still pumping out economically valuable trees, because that’s what we thought was most important 20 years ago.
The previously logged areas are smashing records and the provinces attempts to estimate their growth are severely underestimated.
Then there is the remaining unlogged areas. He provinces estimates here slightly over estimate volume often.
The solution? Move the harvest back to h to e previously harvested area rapidly. The wood is there, it’s better wood, and the thinning jobs it represents get loggers home to loving arms of little children while protecting towns and cities from fast spreading crown fires . Meanwhile the biodiversity benefits of this application go a long ways to improving the land .

08/13/2026

Canada or Scandinavia?

08/13/2026

Cultural burning keeps grassy forests gassy!

08/13/2026

Housing costs should be heavily correlated to the cost of labour and lumber. As some of our awesome followers have said it’s time to address why this is decoupling from housing costs. Losing Interfor head office to Georgia where you can buy a mansion for 350,000 means it’s not happening everywhere. Canadians are struggling and housing costs are out of control while we have so much lumber and space and young people looking for jobs.