by Working Forest | May 13, 2016 | Articles
Summers in Winnipeg in 2080 will be as hot and dry as they are today in the Texas Panhandle if worldwide greenhouse-gas emissions continue unabated, according to the first detailed climate-change projections conducted for the Canadian Prairies. If...
by Working Forest | May 13, 2016 | Articles
In the fight against climate change, forests play a critical role — drawing more greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere than they emit. But when they burn, much of those stored gases are released back into the atmosphere. So far, the fires in Fort McMurray have...
by Working Forest | May 12, 2016 | Articles
The multi-billion-dollar oilsands facilities around Fort McMurray weren’t the only large industrial operations at risk when wildfires tore through the region over the past week. Alberta’s $4 billion forest products industry also felt the heat, quite literally. Two...
by Working Forest | May 12, 2016 | Articles
There was an embarrassing moment at the beginning of PwC’s annual Global Forest, Paper and Packaging Industry Conference in Vancouver May 4 when guest speaker Michael Walton, Google’s (Nasdaq:GOOG) head of manufacturing, asked if anyone in the room could share an...
by Working Forest | May 12, 2016 | Articles
The blackened landscape around Fort McMurray is far from a dead zone, despite a wildfire that has reduced more than 229,000 of hectares of boreal forest to cinders and ashes. Amid the charred skeletons of spruce and still smouldering muskeg, Alberta’s...
by Working Forest | May 12, 2016 | Articles
The city is preparing for another bug invasion. Winnipeg’s Urban Forestry Branch is conducting an inventory of Ash trees on private property in hopes of helping to prepare the city for the arrival of the Emerald Ash Borer beetle. “The Emerald Ash Borer is a...
