Month: August 2019

Nestled in the foothills of Washington’s Cascade Mountains, the bustling Seattle suburb of Issaquah seems an unlikely candidate for anxiety over wildfires. […]

It rains in Zeballos. A lot. The village, perched at the end of a long inlet on the west coast of Vancouver Island, is surrounded by mountains and rainforest. […]

A team from the University of Victoria is pushing for greater protection of old-growth forests in British Columbia in a report that calls for at least 30 per cent of the province’s original forest to be preserved. […]

There is no word in the English language for the feeling you get when surrounded by towering trees in a forest so quiet you can almost hear the plants growing. […]

The Trump administration is quietly trying to strip public input from the decision-making process used by the U.S. Forest Service. Doing so would mean that logging companies could clear-cut at many as 4,200 acres at a time, and you wouldn’t know about it until you turned up at your favorite spot to find it decimated. But you have one last chance to stop that from happening. […]

As the long weekend winds down, the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is reporting four new forest fires burning in the region and says the fire hazard remains high to moderate. […]

On May 30, the morning that Alberta’s Premier Jason Kenney planned a news conference to take credit for repealing the provincial carbon tax he inherited from the NDP, Edmontonians woke up to discover their city covered in a thick yellow blanket of foul-smelling smoke. […]

Wildfire officials in northern Ontario say they expect an “increased demand” for their services as forest fires are projected to become more frequent and intense, and as more infrastructure gets built through remote parts of the province. […]

The province is taking the next step in overhauling an act that manages B.C.’s trees, wildlife, helps slow climate change, and supports reconciliation with First Nations. […]