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In 2016, 15,489,117 hectares (38,274,440 acres) of Canadian forests were destroyed by insects. [2] Two main insects place the Canadian forestry industry at risk, the mountain pine beetle and the emerald ash borer. The mountain pine beetle has destroyed much of the western lodgepole pine stock. The pine beetle has thrived due to a combination of ...
Thomas Grant Hadwin (born October 25, 1949) was a Canadian forest engineer. In January 1997, he felled Kiidk'yaas (also known as "the Golden Spruce"), a Sitka Spruce tree located on the Haida Gwaii archipelago and considered sacred by the Haida people. Hadwin stated that he cut the tree down as a protest against the logging industry.
1,500 Mohawk people warriors attack Lachine and kill 250 people. 3 Mohawk warriors were killed in the process 253 1857 SS Montreal: Shipwreck St. Lawrence River, Quebec Caught on fire near Quebec City [14] 250 1913 Great Lakes Storm of 1913: Blizzard/Storm Great Lakes, Ontario Estimate is for both Canadian and U.S. fatalities 238 1797 HMS Tribune
The Canadian Forest Service (CFS; French: Service canadien des forêts) is a sector of the Canadian government department of Natural Resources Canada.Part of the federal government since 1899, the CFS is a science-based policy organization responsible for promoting the sustainable development of Canada's forests and competitiveness of the forest sector to benefit present and future Canadians.
A Swiss traveler who lived with the Penan people of Borneo during the 1970s and '80s, Manser became an internationally prominent activist in the fight for the Penan's land rights, and opposition to logging and rain-forest destruction. He was in the country illegally, and was continually hunted by authorities, and escaped numerous times under ...
The Canadian Forestry Association (CFA) is Canada's oldest conservation organization. It was established on March 8, 1900 by a group of influential Canadians from government and industry, at the Canadian parliament buildings in Ottawa ON. [ 1 ]
Harvey Reginald MacMillan, CC CBE (September 9, 1885 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian forester, forestry industrialist, wartime administrator, and philanthropist.. Born in Pine Orchard, Whitchurch Township, Ontario (today part of Whitchurch–Stouffville), he attended school in Bogarttown, Sharon, and Aurora. [1]
Suzanne Simard (born 1960) [3] is a Canadian scientist and Professor in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. [4] After growing up in the Monashee Mountains , British Columbia, [ 3 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] she received her PhD in Forest Sciences at Oregon State University . [ 4 ]