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....
by Working Forest | Apr 25, 2016 | Archives
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and other forest groups around the world welcome the official signing of the United Nations agreement on climate change that was reached late last year in Paris. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is among world leaders in...
