WINTER 2011

Terrafact and MUIR in forestry partnership

Terrafact (Canada) Inc. (www.terrafact.com) and business partner The Wikwemikong Department of Lands and Natural Resources (http://www.wikwemikong.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=87&Itemid=83) (WUIR) have moved into the business incubator located at Algoma University's new Bio-Sciences and Technology Convergence Centre being coordinated by the Sault Ste. Marie Innovation Centre.

The Partners will soon begin the year-long process of training up to 17 of WUIR's seasonal forestry field staff to become Ontario Government certified forest inventory photogrammetrists and resource GIS analysts. According to WUIR's senior land planer John Manitowabi, "The new building offers the perfect venue for this alliance to develop high skilled and year round employment in the management and monitoring of Ontario's forests as well as strong economic partnerships for Aboriginal resource organizations with non-Aboriginal businesses like Terrafact."

Terrafact and WUIR have signed leases for office space at the incubation area with the Innovation Centre and a complete lab with the University situated on Centre's fourth floor. The training of WUIR's seasonal staff began in November.

Manitowabi also stated that the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resource's Forest Inventory Branch will be assisting Terrafact and the WUIR in the training of the WUIR employees in the early stages to assure Government mapping and remote sensing standards are properly conveyed to the trainees.

Winter 2011 News:
• AbitibiBowater certifies Northern Ontario forests
• Terrafact and Muir in forestry partnership
• Liberty Mines restarting Timmins operation in 2012
• Northern Ontario mills close
• Bharti family donates $10M to Laurentian University
• Saskatchewan's first new potash mine in 40 years