by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2015 | Archives
The Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) is celebrating the international recognition for the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) at the World Forest Congress now going on in Durban, South Africa. An interactive side event called From Conflict to...
by Working Forest | Sep 10, 2015 | Archives
A New Liskeard-headquartered forest management company is close to commercializing a proprietary remote sensing technology to calculate forest inventories. First Resource Management Group has developed a flagship timber inventory analysis and management tool,...
by Working Forest | Sep 8, 2015 | Archives
The rate at which the world is losing its forests has halved, but an area of woodland the size of South Africa has still been lost since 1990, a UN report revealed Monday. Improvement has been seen around the globe, even in the key tropical rainforests of South...
by Working Forest | Sep 8, 2015 | Archives
A summer long research project on spruce budworm on P.E.I. has been completed. About two dozen citizen scientists assisted the Canadian Forest Service project that is tracking the migration of the spruce budworm. Spruce budworm feed on balsam fir and spruce trees and...
by Working Forest | Sep 8, 2015 | Archives
Alberta’s plan to fully protect the Castle wilderness area in southwestern Alberta is being both panned and praised by opposition parties. The Notley government announced Friday that it would create two parks along the eastern slopes of the Rockies by expanding the...