by Working Forest | Jul 16, 2015 | Archives
Cool, wet weather this weekend helped dampened some forest fires, but didn’t prevent new ones from starting. The province’s fire count now stands at 221, up from 180 fires that were active last week. Fire crews have made little headway subduing two large fires near...
by Working Forest | Jul 16, 2015 | Archive Articles, Articles
A couple of red pines in northeastern New Brunswick are the oldest of their kind in Atlantic Canada, by far, according to a professor and the New Brunswick Museum. “These trees have lived 300 years,” said Ben Phillips, the conservation scientist at the...
by Working Forest | Jul 16, 2015 | Archives
In yet another life (I have a checkered past) I worked in a sawmill situated on the margin of False Creek in downtown Vancouver. (Today, False Creek is a fashionable Vancouver address. But in 1948 the inlet called False Creek was a virtual cesspool; it was wonderful...
by Working Forest | Jul 15, 2015 | Archives
While Canada’s politicians fiddle about on the barbecue circuit this summer, the country burns. By Monday afternoon, 5,041 wildland fires had scorched 3.02 million hectares, equal to about half the area of Nova Scotia, and 902 of them were still burning. Air tanker...
by Working Forest | Jul 15, 2015 | Archives
80% of organisations remove Greenwash following the latest Two Sides Anti-Greenwash Campaign Two Sides have been actively challenging organisations which use greenwash to mislead consumers regarding the environmental benefits of alternative media. They have done this...
