by Working Forest | May 23, 2017 | Archives
A fairly wet spring has meant fewer wildfires than normal on the Prairies. Saskatchewan has had about 65 wildfires, well below the province’s five-year average of about 120 by this time. Alberta is reporting about 220 wildfires, compared to more than 500 by this...
by Working Forest | May 18, 2017 | Archives
A racketeering lawsuit launched by multinational forestry giant Resolute Forest Products against Greenpeace should be heard in California, an American court has ruled.Amid a ramped-up public relations offensive by both sides, a district court in Augusta, Ga., found...
by Working Forest | May 18, 2017 | Archives
As the consequences of climate change strike across the United States, ecologists have a guiding principle about how they think plants will respond. Cold-adapted plants will survive if they move “up”—that is, as they move further north (away from the tropics) and...
by Working Forest | May 18, 2017 | Archives
“There were court challenges in these other disputes. We have won them all.” — Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr on April 25. — Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr has been offering reassuring words as the country prepares to defend its softwood lumber...
by Working Forest | May 18, 2017 | Archives
Forestry has been a passion and a career for Martin Watts for 25 years, but, since attempting to point out problems with B.C.’s process for setting logging rates, his forestry consulting business has nosedived and Watts is claiming in a civil suit that he was...
by Working Forest | May 17, 2017 | Archives
A group of Quebec mayors made its case in Washington, D.C. today for a quick end to the dispute over softwood lumber, which has hurt the industry in the province. Communities across the province depend on the industry, said Drummondville Mayor Alexandre Cusson, who...
