I could be heading to Alberta for a few months next year for work, what's on / worth seeing timber/milling wise in that neck of the woods around June/July?
What's on in Alberta ?
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Can8ianTimber
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Lots of softwood. After milling all that hard wood in Austrailia you would not know what to do with that soft stuff.
So what do you do for a living Bobl?
mtngun
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Never been to Alberta, but glad to hear you get to spend some time on this continent. Will you be stopping over in the Seattle area ? I'd want to visit Madsen's if I ever get up that way.
OK - Madsens is now on the list!
My day job is a university teaching and research administrator. I'm thinking of doing a sabbatical in Alberta. Could be a good chance to stop off in Seattle and Vancouver along the way.
Kicker_92
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Which part of Alberta? Theres a big range of terrain from the south of Calgary to north of Edmonton.
Calgary - but of course am prepared to range into adjacent states to have a look see!
Coalsmoke
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I hate to say this, but if you're really looking for big timber, sawmill history, etc. then skip Alberta and come to BC. You can look almost anywhere on this side of the Rockies and you will find lots to do with the forestry industry. Even Vancouver Island alone can take days or weeks to get a real taste for the history there. Lots of neat stuff in Western Canada whichever place you decided to go to. Lots of neat stuff in Alberta centering the oil and gas industry.
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Bob, if you come half way around the world and I don't get a chance to meet up with ya I'll be some choked... If you don't make it near my area I'd be up for a road trip to come see you, providing work etc. allows. I'm about a 10-hour drive from Calgary in good weather.
As noted you won't find much in the way of big or exotic trees in Alberta, or ANY trees for that matter very far east of the foothills. By the time you get to Calgary heading east it's pretty bare with the exceptions of the river valleys and sheltered hillsides. Don't get me wrong; it's nice country, just not so much in the area of trees and sawmilling.
As noted you won't find much in the way of big or exotic trees in Alberta, or ANY trees for that matter very far east of the foothills. By the time you get to Calgary heading east it's pretty bare with the exceptions of the river valleys and sheltered hillsides. Don't get me wrong; it's nice country, just not so much in the area of trees and sawmilling.
I have google mapped the area fairly extensively and understand what you all mean. Unfortunately Calgary is the closest place to PNW that does my kind of science that I can justify spending some time at and still get all my travel costs paid for and a weekly pay check. But that does not mean I cannot make excursions, before, during and after my time there. So I will definitely try to catch up with some of you guys sometime.
Nothing is absolutely decided yet - I just got the OK from the work boss to have time to do this sometime between May and July. My other half is a mad keen horserider so she will have plenty to do. Me - I have to be away from my mills and saws for about 8 weeks EEK! (I have done 5 weeks and it near killed me!).
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