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Article: Shift in process gives edge in industry.(Special Report: Aboriginal Business)(Ontario Metis and Aboriginal Association Development Corp)
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- Northern Ontario Business
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- August 1, 2004
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To Henry Wetelainen, value-added forestry begins in the bush at the harvesting site.
The president of the Ontario Metis and Aboriginal Association Development Corp. (OMAA) believes a gradual shift is taking place in the North American forest industry in adopting cut-to-length logging.
With business opportunities for Aboriginal loggers limited and the North's wood basket shrinking, the organization has made its own inroads over the last few years by championing this new method, used extensively in Europe, parts of the U.S., Quebec and eastern Canada.
Wetelainen says the Ontario forest industry processes about six million cords of wood annually, ...