B.C. forest minister says Canada’s relationship with U.S. has ‘changed forever’
Ravi Parmar said that B.C. still relies heavily on the lumber industry with revenue from the forest sector to pay for schools, health care and social services.
#politics #trade #forestry #economy #BC #Canada
https://globalnews.ca/news/11082741/bc-forest-minister-canadas-relationship-us-changed-forever/
Dear Friends,
Awareness of value of controlled/cultural burns in forestlands continues to rise. Long Island newspaper, Newsday, reports on the fire ecology of Long Island's unique Pine Barrens in the aftermath of small West Hampton Pines Fire. Byline: Tracy Tullis
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/environment/fires-suffolk-pine-barrens-hj29k448?utm_medium=web_share_api&utm_campaign=web_share_api
#UselessSusanCollins not so useless! #Protests and #PublicOutcry works!
#UniversityOfMaine’s #USDA funding restored
by WABI News Desk
Published: Mar. 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM EDT
Maine (WABI) - "Senator #SusanCollins announced Wednesday that the University of Maine’s funding from the U.S. Department of Agriculture has been restored.
"On Monday the University received notice that funding from the USDA was paused.
"According to UMS, the notice stated the pause was temporary while the USDA evaluated potential follow-up actions related to prospective Title VI (6) or Title IX (9) violations.
"Collins released at statement saying:
'This USDA funding is critically important not only to the University of Maine, but to our farmers and loggers, as well as to the many people who work in #Maine’s #agriculture, #aquaculture, and #forestry industries. Now that funding has been restored, the work that the University does in partnership with the many people and communities who depend on these programs can continue.'"
https://www.wabi.tv/2025/03/13/university-maines-usda-funding-restored/
#ResistDOGE #MaineResists #MaineResistance #District13
“Lower-intensity fires typically burn off the top layer — the humus layer — and leave the soil underneath intact. But fires in recent years have been reaching such high temperatures that they essentially burn the soil all the way down to the bedrock.” #climateChange #forestry https://bylin.es/alana-friend-lettner/the-end-of-tree-planting-as-we-know-it
@tobeB Glad to see researchers analysing in more detail the limits of #magicalthinking .
This paper and its results are key for the future of humanity. I hope policy makers get it on their desks and understand the implications as hard as they are.
“One of the things that people kept saying to us over and over again is, ‘We really wish there was a Kijiji for native seeds, somewhere we can actually make trades.’ So that’s what we built.”
#gardening #rewilding #restoration #treeplanting #trees #forests #forestry #woodland #canada #climatechange #biodiversity
https://www.rewildingmag.com/squiirrel-is-addressing-the-need-for-seed/
“It’s easy to understand that when people arrived on this landscape, that it was a landscape that was shaped and maintained by fire and that it was exquisitely beautiful,” White says.
“It’s easy to understand that traditional knowledge of #fire should be integrated into fire management practices today, but, man, that’s hard to achieve.”
#forests #wildfires #forestry #books #california
https://www.rewildingmag.com/indigenous-forest-management-a-culture-of-burning/
“I don’t believe we have the right to control nature. We work with it from a place of responsibility, respect and reciprocity.
"This means that every time we do something in the forest, we ask, ‘What is in the best interest of animals, plants, soil, water, air and humans?’
"Humans are in that circle, but we are just one of the spokes in the wheel.”
#forestry #forests #wildfires #biodiversity #california #
https://www.rewildingmag.com/learning-how-to-garden-a-forest/
“The forest looks pristine,” he says, as a flurry of snow falls through the open canopy.
“These big maples and basswoods are around 150 years old. But we have been #logging here for over a century, and we still have more #trees than when we started.”
#biodiversity #sustainability #forestry
https://e360.yale.edu/features/menominee-forest-management-logging
Grab a drink with our CEO @allisoncwolff and listen to the latest episode of Climate Tech Cocktails @ct_cocktails 
️ Hear about Allison's journey, Vibrant Planet's goals, and current challenges in #forestry and #climatetech 
Listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3XM4kg0q41s5AU2zNuqxWD?si=rP0HAn5UR_yPasLr2uwWpA
Have you ever thought about how the trees in an #urban environment got there? Interesting article about the design aspect of how cities select and acquire their #trees.
#ClimateChange and supply availability issues make urban forestry programs harder. Didn't realize the Inflation Reduction Act included $1.5b for urban #Forestry. Hope we can learn more from these efforts about building diverse, healthy, mutually supportive communities--tree and human together.
