by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
One little-known legacy of the now-expiring softwood lumber agreement: it spawned a massive, Canadian-funded humanitarian effort in the United States that people north of the border have never heard of. Funds dispersed with little fanfare under the decade-old...
by Working Forest | Jan 4, 2016 | Archives
We are excited to announce that registration for the 2016 Forests Ontario Annual Conference is open! The conference will take place on Friday, February 5th at the Nottawasaga Inn, Alliston. This year we will be exploring the theme of Regeneration – looking at...
by Working Forest | Dec 18, 2015 | Archives
If you had to sexually attract a brown spruce longhorn beetle, would you know what to do? Jon Sweeney knows. Start with a deep whiff of male beetle sex pheromone. “By itself, it’s not very attractive, but if it’s emitted along with odours that smell...
by Working Forest | Dec 18, 2015 | Archives
The Forest Stewardship Council is launching a mediation process to try and bring peace to Quebec’s woodlands. The organization that oversees the world’s most recognized forest certification standard said Thursday that the process will bring together...
by Working Forest | Dec 18, 2015 | Archives
The Budworm Tracker program, which involved field reports from ‘citizen scientists,’ received an “unheard of” 90 per cent return rate on the data, says Rob Johns, a forest insect ecologist with Canadian Forest Service in Fredericton. “To...
by Working Forest | Dec 18, 2015 | Archives
Cameco announced today that its board appointed Don Kayne as a director effective January 1, 2016 until the next annual general shareholders’ meeting where he will stand for election by the shareholders with the rest of the board. Kayne is president and CEO of...