Norfolk County’s appearance isn’t the only thing to suffer now that the emerald ash borer has made its mark on the landscape. The county is also about to take a hit in the pocketbook now that trees are dying on public property and posing a risk to public safety. A total of 1,300 ash trees…

Nova Scotia’s Environment Department is investigating the apparent clearcutting of a chunk of forest in Long Lake Provincial Park, acting minister Randy Delorey said Thursday. The affected eight-hectare area sits just behind a strip of trees along Halifax’s Old Sambro Road, which runs right through the 2,095-hectare park. “I do know there was a cut. It appears…

On any visit to Cape Breton Highlands National Park, to see a moose is a highlight. But the proliferation of those giant, lumbering creatures has stirred up a giant controversy. Derek Quann, a spokesman for the park, says its 1,800 moose are eating too many young evergreen trees, reducing once-dense forest to meadows. Destruction of…

Bill Stephen, tree expert with City of Vancouver’s urban forest strategy team, wants to show me how hard it is to take care of trees in the city’s downtown core. We meet at the corner of Carrall and Water streets in bustling Gastown and Stephen points to a beautiful row of maples planted along the…

Bill Stephen, tree expert with City of Vancouver’s urban forest strategy team, wants to show me how hard it is to take care of trees in the city’s downtown core. We meet at the corner of Carrall and Water streets in bustling Gastown and Stephen points to a beautiful row of maples planted along the…

A new Sierra Club map of B.C.’s southern coastal rainforest shows why the Walbran rainforest on Vancouver Island matters, and what we stand to lose for species, carbon and beauty, if the proposed logging goes ahead. A few weeks ago, the B.C. government issued the first of eight logging permits for the Walbran requested by logging company…

The moose cull in Cape Breton Highlands National Park remained suspended Thursday for safety reasons, one day after protesters confronted Mi’kmaq hunters in the woods on North Mountain. Parks Canada said in an email statement late Thursday the moose harvest is temporarily suspended while park officials discuss safety measures with Mi’kmaq representatives. There was no…

Forestry officials in Indonesia are training elephants to help with the management of the local area. Trained elephants are now able to assist firefighter crews to put out forest fires, and prevent them from igniting. In the elephant conservation centre of Siak district, as many as 23 elephants have been trained to be ‘forest watchdogs’. Carrying water…

Dennis Day was all ready to protest a Mi’kmaq moose hunt that Parks Canada approved for Monday on North Mountain in Cape Breton Highlands National Park, but there was nothing to protest. Day, a resident of nearby Cape North, set up camp along the Cabot Trail just outside the park on Sunday night, but Mi’kmaq…

The 2015 wildfire season was one of the busiest on record, Alberta Forestry Minister Oneil Carlier says. “There was not a lot of snowpack through the winter, so we had a particularly dry spring. and especially in the spring and summer, there was not a lot of rain, either, and there were a lot of…