by Working Forest | Feb 25, 2016 | Archives
For Harbour Air CEO Greg McDougall, there is a bit of symmetry in his company’s efforts to stay carbon-neutral. His airline’s float planes fly over large parts of British Columbia’s south coast, and the company buys some of the carbon offsets for...
by Working Forest | Feb 25, 2016 | Archives
It can take Mother Nature 1,000 years to grow a forest. But Nikolay Strigul, assistant professor of mathematics and statistics at Washington State University Vancouver, can grow one on a computer in three weeks. He and Jean Lienard, a mathematics postdoctoral...
by Working Forest | Feb 25, 2016 | Archives
Officials with the city’s forestry section say the massive plan to remove 23,000 dead and dying ash trees on city property over 10 years is more than one-third completed. A total of 8,800 trees afflicted by the emerald ash borer have so far been taken down...
by Working Forest | Feb 25, 2016 | Archives
The government of Saskatchewan is scrapping a controversial policy that has been used to prioritize forest fires. Under the policy, the province could let forest fires burn unless they were within 20 kilometres of a community. Many northerners criticized that policy...
by Working Forest | Feb 24, 2016 | Archives
A mill shutdown in Port Alberni that resulted in close to 100 workers being laid off is symptomatic of a much larger problem as timber harvesting contractors up and down the BC coast are struggling to be sustainable in the face of consistently low rates. Western...
by Working Forest | Feb 24, 2016 | Archives
Saskatchewan is recalling firefighting crews two weeks earlier and hiring eight new crews as it prepares for what could be an early start to the wildfire season. An air tanker and a bird-dog aircraft, which directs the operation of the air tankers, are scheduled to be...
