Canada has made significant strides in protecting the vast boreal forest that stretches across most of its provinces and territories, but the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem still faces threats, says an environmental group.
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Alberta’s forest product companies continued to enjoy a profitable year in the third quarter of 2013.
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EDMONTON – At Golden Ranches Conservation Area, Stephanie May surveys mounds of dirt that are home to newly planted trees.
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FOX CREEK — Eyeing a stack of rough lumber, Stefan Demharter spots the telltale blue stain fungus spread by the Mountain Pine Beetle.
“It’s here, and there, and there … there is quite of bit of it, but this is a good news story. It means we are cutting the trees before they’re dead,” said Demharter, Millar Western’s vice-president of wood products.
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EDMONTON – Alberta’s forestry industry is enjoying a bit of a boom, with the value of its production totalling $2.3 billion in 2012, up by $184 million — or about nine per cent — above 2011 levels, the Alberta Forest Products Association reported Wednesday.
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EDMONTON – Up to 30 large, artificial lakes could be built in the oilsands area if the province approves the idea as a new way to reclaim thousands of hectares boreal forest dug up for the massive open-pit mines.
While the goal is to create lakes clean enough for fish and recreation, it is also possible — give the unproven technology — that some of permanent pools could be left polluted with toxic tailings and solid waste from old mines for decades.
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