35,000 Ecuadoreans will volunteer to plant over 350,000 tree seeds on 16 May, breaking a Guinness World Record in the process. Seeds will be planted across the country, in a massive reforestation effort confirmed as unprecedented by Carlos Martinez, director of the Latin-American branch of World Guinness Records. The government is hoping to show its…
Blight has made the American chestnut, once “the dominant tree in the canopy,” a rare sight in the forests of the East. Now some researchers hope to save the tree by giving it a last-ditch genetic modification, reports David Biello for Scientific American’s 60-Second Science podcast. Scientists first noticed the fungal blight in 1904. It slides into the trees…
Effective immediately, the Meadow Creek Cedar Forest Licence in British Colombia has been placed under notice for pending cancellation by the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. The cancellation of the licence is scheduled to take place on Aug. 7, 2015, unless rescinded or postponed by the ministry. The Forest Act requires a…
Resolute Forest Products (NYSE:RFP)’s share pricetraded down 12.4% during trading on Thursday following a dissappointing earnings announcement, American Banking and Market News reports. The stock traded as low as $12.87 and last traded at $13.23, with a volume of 639,052 shares. The stock had previously closed at $15.11. The company reported ($0.32) EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters…
When Jonathan “Scooter” Clark began planting trees for a living in 1990, his work camp was “bush league” at best. By comparison, the modern-day tree planters seem like a spoiled bunch. “We had two station wagons in our first camp, and a couple of two-wheel-drive trucks,” said Clark, 46, who works in a camp that…
Unlike the Great Wall of China, a 5,000-mile fortification dating back to the 7th century BC that separates northern China from the Mongolian steppe, the Great Green Wall of China—otherwise known as the Three-North Shelter Forest Program—is the biggest tree planting project on the planet. Its goal is to create a 2,800-mile long green belt…
James (Jim) D. Irving was invested in the Order of Canada in Ottawa today. Irving was one of 38 members, 10 officers and two companions recognized by Governor General David Johnston in a ceremony at Rideau Hall. Irving was cited for outstanding business and community leadership that has helped to strengthen the Maritime economy by creating…
While the City of Calgary is working double-time to get through even a portion of the damaged trees from ‘Snowtember’, individual Calgarians also have a lot of work left to do. Tree Canada has sent representatives to Calgary’s Disaster Alley on Saturday, to announce some help in the form of $83,000. Mike Rosen, president of…
The annual number of forest fires this year is the highest it’s been in a decade, according to the province’s forest fire prevention agency (SOPFEU). In Quebec, 192 fires burned more than two million square metres (two square kilometres) of forest since the start of 2015. In the month of May alone, five forest fires popped up in eastern…
The parking lot at Vernon’s Kal Tire Place is filled with large-scale forestry equipment this week. It’s part of an annual industry trade show and conference put on by the Interior Logging Association (I.L.A.). Organizers estimate attendance is up about 25 per cent compared to last year and many attendees are bullish about the industry’s…