by Working Forest | Jul 20, 2015 | Archives
Saying this year’s wildfires may be the new normal, the premiers of British Columbia and Saskatchewan are calling for a national approach to fighting forest fires. Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall is calling for a partnership between the provinces and the federal...
by Working Forest | Jul 20, 2015 | Archives
A Spruce budworm infestation is on its way and it appears to be entering a new outbreak phase in northeastern Ontario, according to CBC Sudbury’s backroads adventurer Bill Steer. The Spruce budworm is the most destructive pest of spruce and fir forests in North...
by Working Forest | Jul 20, 2015 | Archives
Even though the smell and smog spewing out of Northern Pulp has faded this summer, a Pictou activist group remains skeptical the pulp mill’s emissions will stay out of their lungs for long. “It’s not a big issue in the town of Pictou any more, except...
by Working Forest | Jul 20, 2015 | Archives
British Columbia’s official bird is the Steller’s jay, but a close second, in the worst forest-fire season since 2003, is the flying whale known as the Martin Mars water bomber. The government has burned through its $63-million fire budget, but with 200 fires raging,...
by Working Forest | Jul 20, 2015 | Archives
A Vancouver engineer is lucky to be alive following a grizzly bear attack near Bella Coola on the B.C. Central Coast. George Knoll was working with several other forestry workers in an area about 33 kilometres outside of Bella Coola. The crew was flagging off an area...
