Vanderwell Supports Inaugural OYEP Alberta Youth Camp

(Left) Youths' building a woodshed with Vanderwell lumber, (Middle) Vanderwell mill tour, (Right) Closing Ceremony with the OYEP youth graduates

This summer Vanderwell Contractors, along with West Fraser, Alberta Pacific, Weyerhaeuser, Canfor and Millar Western, supported the first annual Outland Youth Employment Program (OYEP) in Alberta.  Vanderwell, along with the above forestry companies have committed 4 years of funding to support the annual OYEP program in Alberta.  This summers’ camp was based out of Lubicon […]

Vanderwell Achieves SFI Certificate of Registration

We are pleased to have met the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) requirements in our Forest Management Standard, and our Fiber Sourcing Standard. The Scope of Certification covers our forest management activities (planning, harvesting and construction, silviculture and transportation) on selected area and volume-based forest tenures, and the fiber sourcing program that acquires roundwood to support […]