by Working Forest | May 20, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
VICTORIA NEWS — Five more protesters were arrested by the RCMP at the Fairy Creek blockade on Wednesday, May 19, bringing the total to 12 arrests over two days since enforcement of an injunction order began. ABOVE: People gathered outside the Victoria courthouse...
by Working Forest | Apr 30, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
CBC NEWS — The emerald ash borer is proving to be a greater threat to ash trees in the Halifax area than expected. Crispin Wood, the superintendent of urban forestry for the municipality, says it was originally believed the ash borer was only present in...
by Working Forest | Apr 30, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
NORTH BAY — The Ontario government is investing more than $2.1 million in five businesses and one film project in the Nipissing region to help create 19 new jobs and promote economic development in...
by Working Forest | Apr 28, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
NATIONAL POST — It’s been dubbed the new “War in the Woods”: A growing Vancouver Island protest encampment aimed at disrupting planned logging in Fairy Creek, an expanse of old-growth rainforest located just north of the British Columbia capital of Victoria. But...
by Working Forest | Apr 28, 2021 | Archive Articles, Articles
VICTORIA, VANCOUVER SUN — — The B.C. government should prepare the public for the coming “big shock” when “fairly large chunks” of provincial Crown land are recognized as actually owned and controlled by Indigenous Nations. So says Jack Woodward, the...
