The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment lists sustainable harvesting as having the most significant climate mitigation benefit for the world’s forests. This view has been widely embraced, from the media to forest managers. However, researchers from Australian National University and Griffith University show this may not be a one-size-fits-all strategy. In their October, 2015 article in PLOS…
Drought could kill vast swaths of forests around the world if global warming isn’t contained, new research suggests. That’s in part because a fundamental structure found in trees may limit how much they can adapt to parched conditions. What’s more, climate predictions seem to suggest that droughts will be much more common in the United States, said William…
Since international leaders reached a historic climate change agreement at the United Nations meeting in Paris earlier this month, the conversations have shifted toward how to reach the ambitious goals. For the most part, national, sub-national and local governments, private and public organizations and the general public are all in agreement that much more needs…
Since international leaders reached a historic climate change agreement at the United Nations meeting in Paris this month, the conversations have shifted toward how to reach the ambitious goals. For the most part, national, sub-national and local governments, private and public organizations and the public are all in agreement that much more needs to be…
The side deal that Canada and Japan cut to the Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement on Canadian restrictions to raw log exports includes a mechanism aimed at smoothing over future irritants. The mechanism is a bilateral committee on forest products, which is to begin operations five years after the TPP comes into force, assuming it…
On a routine basis, district forest managers raise red flags over forestry practices that pose potential public safety hazards, threaten wildlife and community watersheds, and could trigger landslides, but have no authority to stop it. That’s the conclusion of a special report just released by the Forest Practices Board. The report, which has been submitted…
Despite declarations by special interest environmental groups that there is a caribou crisis in Ontario, a review of Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) research, scientific evidence, and an assessment of all available and up-to-date data demonstrates that caribou populations are persisting in Ontario. “Caribou are the most abundant ungulate in North America. Woodland…
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is pleased with the landmark global climate deal reached in Paris including its recognition of the fundamental role played by the world’s forests. Nearly 200 countries, including Canada, have agreed to hold the increase in global temperature to 2°C above pre-industrial levels to reduce the risks and impacts…
Communities along the West Coast of Vancouver Island say the provincial government needs to step in to save the ancient, massive trees that grow in the Walbran Valley. Business leaders in Port Renfrew, B.C., a community that once thrived on forestry, are calling for a ban on logging the trees — some of which started…
Montana’s congressional delegation is still waiting for answers to letters they sent regarding cross-border issues with Canada, but that could be because Canadians are waiting for answers themselves. “With the election of (Prime Minister Justin) Trudeau, the tone and outlook of the federal government took a pretty big change,” said political science assistant professor Greg…