Month: September 2017

The Forest Service has spent more than $2 billion battling forest fires around the country – a new record as wildfires blacken the American West […]

Forests Ontario’s Heritage Tree Program collects and shares the stories of Ontario’s diverse and unique trees and brings awareness to the social, cultural, historical, and […]

Ash is raining down on the city of Portland. Thousand-degree fireballs are forcing evacuations near Salt Lake City, Seattle, and parts of Northern California. In Missoula, […]

Canada’s forest sector is an economic driver and major employer of Canadians, including Indigenous peoples. The Government of Canada is working to strengthen the long-term competitiveness of the […]

If you listened closely to the woods north of Grand Rapids this summer, you could hear modern-day lumberjacks trimming white pines; if you captured a […]

Obishikokaang Resources Corporation has certified more than 1 million hectares of the Lac Seul Forest in Northern Ontario to the Sustainable Forestry InitiativeSFI 2015-2019 Forest Management Standard. […]

A group of nine bipartisan senators reintroduced the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act of 2017 in the US Senate on Tuesday. The bill, which is similar to […]

The West is burning, and there’s no relief in sight. More than 80 large wildfires are raging in an area covering more than 1.4 million […]

The BC organization promoting National Forest Week (September 24-30) says it is a time for British Columbians to reflect on and learn more about the importance of […]

It started with a phone call and has lead to more than $15,000 US worth of lumber heading to Houston, Texas. “We’ve all seen the […]