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Freya Logging Inc Freya Logging Inc employs 65 people, and harvests 1 percent of the wood in BC using only forwarders and harvesters.

This page is a place where respectful conversations on forestry, thinning, biology and megafauna are dispersed into real life action.

An edible forest is so important. And according to this study you literally are what you eat. This study links gut bac...
10/23/2026

An edible forest is so important. And according to this study you literally are what you eat. This study links gut bacteria to personality traits. Now correlation does not prove causation.

There is tonnes of talk about climate change making trees grow faster, and less about carbon fertilization. And even l...
10/23/2026

There is tonnes of talk about climate change making trees grow faster, and less about carbon fertilization. And even less about how higher carbon levels are making trees pull even more (safe) carbon from the soil, to the canopy (where it can burn). Meanwhile this drains carbon from the soil which makes it less resilient for drought.

People tend to ignore forest nitrogen. Here is a useful graphic to show where nitrogen is in the system. Hint-it's not...
10/22/2026

People tend to ignore forest nitrogen. Here is a useful graphic to show where nitrogen is in the system. Hint-it's not in the sawlogs!!!

It's not a secret that trees have increased their rate of growth in the last 40 years. It's always interesting to liste...
10/21/2026

It's not a secret that trees have increased their rate of growth in the last 40 years. It's always interesting to listen to a older RPF exclaim how the trees can be so tall when the trees that were harvested took so much longer to get to the same height. What's changed?
Freya Logging is only 10 years old. When we started this company atmospheric carbon was around 402ppm. The air we all breathe in this morning is now 427ppm.
There is an increasing body of science that shows that spruce trees are very active in the carbon market below ground. They trade with various ectomycorhyzal networks, a fancy way to say mushrooms. As they trade they get things like nitrogen, water and other good things in return.
Scientists have noticed a strong correlation between increasing carbon levels in the air and decreasing soil carbon levels in the A horizon-ie not the lfh layer. This appears to be related to spruce trees sending excess carbon to cortinaria (a mushroom that smells like metal and is common and poisonous) mushrooms that in bring soil up to the tree from the ground. This is leading to higher levels of forest growth.
One way to keep more carbon in the ground is add nitrogen to the soil which seems to keep the tree growing without depleting soil carbon. This explains one of the reasons why we fly around with urea (46-0-0) and sell carbon credits from that activity.
Thinning puts about 20 tonnes of branches/ hectare onto the ground. Branches are about 1 percent nitrogen by weight. So we could hypothesize that (20,000kg*.01=200) putting 200kg of nitrogen per hectare, in a natural, biodiversity enhancing application called woody debris, would also help trees not have to trade soil carbon for nitrogen from cortinaria networks, which would in turn make thinning an amazing way to store even more carbon in the soil while it's safe!
This all makes sense if we look at the world that poor starving humans created when we killed the last of the north America elephants, who would have put massive amounts of nitrogen into the system, thereby increasing the amount of carbon stored in the soil in forest ecosystems, which in turn explains why wild meat densities crashed from 10,000kg/km2 13,000 years ago to 40kg/km2 today. We can grow the pie of biodiversity if we put our minds to it.

Many people have a cynical view of human nature while idolizing nature as perfect without humans. This fails to acco...
10/21/2026

Many people have a cynical view of human nature while idolizing nature as perfect without humans.
This fails to account for science so we can take those people and put them into the religious camp and treat their ideas the same place as someone who believes the world is flat.
Meanwhile in reality humans evolved and are nature. The trick is to create the right incentives to make us live in harmony with the world. Living in harmony is a human idea. Nature is random chance.
One thing that needs to be explored more is the value of nature to people who already have enough money. This study showed more birds was superior to more money after a certain level of wealth was attained.
Often the people who idolize nature and have a cynical view of humans are degrowthers. A serious review of history shows that when humans are hungry and poor they do far more damage to the world. Hence degrowthers are actively trying to destroy nature.
We must find ways to increase our wealth to a point where extra money is spent on nature. The pie is not fixed and humans have the ability to make the world a much better place, for humans.

This aspen stand is most likely a remnant of the Skook Davidson area off the Kechika river. He burned the spruce until ...
10/21/2026

This aspen stand is most likely a remnant of the Skook Davidson area off the Kechika river. He burned the spruce until the seed source was far away. The spruce is now making it's way back. He did that because his horses and animals benefitted from aspen as it allowed more grass and moisture to exist in the stand.
Current research is pointing to a fascinating and concerning trend in spruce forests. As atmospheric carbon increases the type of fungus that spruce use shifts. More carbon in the air means more cortinarius, which shifts soil carbon into tree carbon in a trade involving nitrogen. This makes trees grow faster and reduces carbon stores in the soil.

Less than 1 in 4 people voted to have a vote to separate from Canada tonight in Alberta. But!!!!!! Only one in 3 people...
10/20/2026

Less than 1 in 4 people voted to have a vote to separate from Canada tonight in Alberta. But!!!!!! Only one in 3 people who voted to leave Alberta tonight actually want to separate. Lets move forward as a strong and united country and work together to make this place that we all know it can be. The best is yet to come. We are stronger together.

One of our main points of this page is bring forth solutions to problems. Our problems are many and few people think th...
10/19/2026

One of our main points of this page is bring forth solutions to problems. Our problems are many and few people think the world is perfect. One of the philosophical issues with telling people that the world is ending is that it wrecks the morale of young people. Yes we have big problems, but screaming about them without a focus on real solutions is not helping, it's hurting.
That is why we bring your attention to the fact that cynics usually get more attention that then they deserve and also that cynics overestimate their intelligence. This article in the Guardian brings that home.

What we really need to do with the Province is to get a grasp on just how good of a job we have done harvesting most of ...
10/19/2026

What we really need to do with the Province is to get a grasp on just how good of a job we have done harvesting most of the best and closest areas. Our VRI system which is underrepresenting available harvest opportunities in existing logged areas in some cases by infinity, is just as bad at telling us that the areas at the far back of beyond on a rocky hill top contain good wood. Fix VRI, move the harvesting back closer to town where good green sawlog goes into mills from a third of the distance and twice the quality, and focus on thinning and managing areas already logged that are increasingly absolutely full of timber.

Congrats to Trudy Klassen for winning as a councilor in PG! Her pragmatic and northern perspectives are channeled into ...
10/18/2026

Congrats to Trudy Klassen for winning as a councilor in PG! Her pragmatic and northern perspectives are channeled into calm energy of seeking the truth and finding ways to make policies that reflect the best interest of all northerners. Politics is tough and hard work and we encourage people to consider the sacrifice it takes to serve our communities. Democracy is a gift handed down from millenia of humans trying to make good decisions, and in order for it to work we must speak, and listen. Respect for all positions is key and Trudy brings this in spades.

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11980 Cariboo Highway
Prince George, BC
V2N6B5

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