Current Problems: Environment

Exploring Theme: "Forest Management"

Updates on this page: 3 (Filtered by Stakeholder "Canada")
 

October 24, 2024


Indigenous stewardship holds the key to wildfire prevention in national parks, Jasper hearings told

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...

December 15, 2023


The Case of the Ghostly Trestle

On the northern Sunshine Coast, a popular lake preserves the remnants of early settler history The Tyee: A few summers ago, my friend Nola took me paddle boarding at Haslam Lake, in one of the more accessible recreational forest areas surrounding what is currently known as Powell River, B.C. We drove down a logging road...

March 10, 2023


Canada, home to a massive boreal forest, lobbied to limit U.S., EU anti-deforestation bills

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...