The emerald ash borer is continuing its spread across the region. “We are starting to see exit holes in the trees in areas we hadn’t seen them before so that tells us the pest is there,” Donna Lacey, forestry technician at the Saugeen Conservation Authority, said Thursday. “In some cases people are actually catching the…
Saulteau First Nations is preparing for an invasion from the south. Armed with lessons learned from the pine beetle outbreak, SFN, together with the provincial government and industry partners are taking steps to get ahead of the next big problem for B.C.’s forests: the spruce beetle. Already, more than 156,000 hectares of forest in the…
Now that crews have contained the 78 hectare wildfire that has been burning in Burns Bog since Sunday afternoon, ecological experts are anxious to visit the site so they can survey the damage. Delta Mayor Lois Jackson said it is essential the recovery of the bog is guided by science. “We determined that we had…
Research based on satellite imagery shows that almost all industrial activity in Canada’s intact forests is occurring on the home ranges of endangered species. A report released Tuesday by Global Forest Watch Canada says 92 per cent of the land affected supports at least one endangered species. It says 14 per cent of activity —…
Battling the spread of the emerald ash borer has taken its toll on the urban canopy in Hamilton, Ont. says the southern Ontario city’s manager of forestry. The invasive beetle was first discovered in Hamilton in 2009, said Le’Ann Seely, and an action plan to deal with it was approved by city council the next…
Firefighters are working to extinguish hot spots at a forest fire roughly two hours outside of Halifax. Two helicopters, nine tankers and 40 firefighters responded to the scene Tuesday. The fire started in a wooded area near Malay Falls, N.S., close to Sheet Harbour, N.S. No evacuations or injuries have been reported, and the fire,…
On a moonless night deep in a Brazilian rainforest the only thing you are likely to see are the tiny smears of light from flitting fireflies or the ghostly glow of mushrooms scattered around the forest floor. Both effects are the result of bioluminescence, the peculiar ability of some organisms to behave like living night-lights….
Following an thorough examination, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) – the federal agency responsible for regulating and managing invasive species – confirmed that the invasive Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) has been detected in Thunder Bay. EAB is an invasive beetle native to Asia that is responsible for devastating millions of ash trees across North…
When the European gypsy moth hatches, it is born as a furry little caterpillar. They emerge from their eggs in the spring and proceed to feed mercilessly on the surrounding foliage. Tree leaves and coniferous needles are the primary target of this tiny scourge, and if you happen to live in the middle of an infestation, you may feel as if the…
One of the most endangered lichens in the world is a canary in the coal mine for human-caused environmental impacts, according to a Nova Scotia scientist. “So many activities that humans do on the landscape this thing is sensitive to. I think that the decline in the population over the last 10 years I think…