Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Rumour Mill RoundUpDate 18 November 2022 Volume 22 Issue 12 Warning: The RoundUpDate will continue its annual fall prohibition against making jokes about any facts containing pumpkin spice. New Pilot Flight and Duty Rules May Affect Forestry Operations New pilot fatigue rules may shorten work days and limit emergency response availability … Read more
Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Rumour Mill RoundUpDate 14 October 2022 Volume 22 Issue 11 Warning: Readers using fact-blocking software may find portions of this publication missing. We do need some rain for this fall’s tree planting—just not at once A fall tree planting crew navigates the dust for another dry day of planting this month … Read more
Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Rumour Mill RoundUpDate September 16, 2022 Volume 22 Issue 10 Warning: The quantum symmetry of time allows it to flow both forwards and backwards so that a fact in this present publication could go back and affect facts in the past creating a time paradox leaving some readers at risk of … Read more
Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Rumour Mill RoundUpDate 22 July 2022 Volume 22 Issue 09 SPECIAL SUMMER HOLIDAZE CROP-CIRCLE CONTEST EDITION! Warning: No block-chains have been involved in the production of this publication or any of the non-fungible facts contained in it. BC Summer Planting Winding Up/Down After Some Delays and Strains In the thicket of … Read more
Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Rumour Mill RoundUpDate 24 June 2022 Volume 22 Issue 08 Warning: In spite of our editorial staff’s best efforts to write with directness and clarity some of this publication’s facts may be contained in sentences with weak prepositional chains, passive constructions, and dependent phrases that we hope our faithful readers will … Read more
British Columbians can expect cooler and wetter conditions in June, which means the fire hazard is anticipated to remain low through the early summer, as shown in the BC Wildfire Service’s latest seasonal outlook. Despite this, there are several key regions demonstrating drier-than-normal patterns, including southern Cariboo, Thompson-Okanagan and Rocky Mountain Trench. These regions will … Read more
Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Rumour Mill RoundUpDate 27 May 2022 Volume 22 Issue 07 Warning: Some facts contained in this publication may cause readers to form opinions. Fed Report Says BC Falling Short on Meeting Climate Change Challenges We need to keep workers like these busy. A forest fuels management crew at work on a … Read more
Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Rumour Mill RoundUpDate 6 May 2022 Volume 22 Issue 06 Warning: Contrary to widespread rumour, it is not a fact that Elon Musk has purchased the RoundUpDate, being this publication is priceless. BC Interior and Alberta planting and forestry field seasons ramp up amid COVID, hyper-inflation, possible flooding, some frozen ground, … Read more
Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Rumour Mill RoundUpDate 8 April 2022 Volume 22 Issue 05 Warning: In order to ensure you are not a robot please identify the paragraphs below that contain facts. WFCA Cost Calculator Available To Members as Concerns Grow Over Effects of Hyperinflation. Not a good sign. In a recent poll almost … Read more
Western Forestry Contractors’ Association Rumour Mill RoundUpDate 18 March 2022 Volume 22 Issue 04 Warning: Many of the recently appearing fanfiction versions of the RoundUpDate may contain facts set in imagined circumstances that have been narratively embellished by their authors. Rising Inflation’s Cascading Costs Shock Contractors Canadian Inflation Not all inflation rates are equal (see … Read more