by Working Forest | Apr 25, 2016 | Archives
WestJet Airlines Ltd is hoping its new partnership with a central Alberta research centre will lead to the development of an environmentally friendly biofuel that will help the carrier reduce its carbon footprint. The Calgary-based airline is working with the Clean...
by Working Forest | Apr 25, 2016 | Archives
The B.C. government is pledging harsh punishment for people who fly drones over a wildfire, who are boating on a lake where an air tanker needs to fill up, or motorists or campers who go into restricted wildfire areas. “If you interfere with firefighting efforts...
by Working Forest | Apr 25, 2016 | Articles
The road through the forest, abandoned, is at times barely discernible, covered with the debris of fallen tree limbs, vines, leaves and moss pushing up through cracks in the crumbling asphalt. The moss is best avoided, says our guide, Artur N. Kalmykov, a young...
by Working Forest | Apr 25, 2016 | Archives
A forestry company is donating a large tract of land that includes at-risk species of trees in northern Nova Scotia. The Nature Conservancy of Canada says Bonnyman and Byers Ltd. is turning over 167 hectares of forested land near the Pugwash River in Cumberland...
by Working Forest | Apr 25, 2016 | Archives
She has a silver-grey trunk, is 200-years-old and unusually resilient. Betty, a mature ash tree in Norfolk, is offering hope that ash dieback disease will not be as destructive as first feared after scientists identified her “strong tolerance” to the disease....
