Exploring Theme: "Forest Management"

Parks Canada employee terminated after voicing concern, former MP testifies CBC Indigenous: Members of Parliament along with industry forestry experts and Indigenous land stewards criticized present and past governments for not doing enough to prevent the wildfires that destroyed 30 per cent of the Jasper townsite in late July.  Witness testimony during a parliamentary hearing Wednesday...

AMY CARDINAL CHRISTIANSON: CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL NationTalk: The Globe and Mail – As fall wildfires burn, Canada is on track to record the second-largest wildfire season in 20 years. From the heartbreak of the Jasper, Alta., fire to the waves of smoke stretching from Kelowna, B.C., to Montreal, this year confirms that...

Canada’s boreal forest covers 270 million hectares, spanning from Yukon through to N.L. CBC News: Canada is facing international criticism for undermining efforts to protect one of the world’s last primary forests — our own. Jennifer Skene, natural climate solutions policy manager for the Washington-based Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), accuses the Canadian government of...