While BC Forests Minister Doug Donaldson announced more funding to help businesses affected by this summer’s wildfire season, Ottawa wants to tax some land owners 50 per cent on what they might receive from salvage logging their decimated property. “The ultimate kick in the guts“.

In other Forestry news: BC forest companies speak to careful, sustainable logging in Nelson area watersheds; wildfires may have affected the migration patterns of some west coast birds; a specific fungus is seen as a potential solution to the emerald ash borer infestation; and lawmakers in Indianapolis propose set asides of 30 percent on Indiana’s old forests.

Finally, CWC is applauding the Ontario government’s decision to employ a life-cycle assessment approach for major infrastructure projects and in a new video, Domtar claims it can do in a few days what Mother Nature does in millions of years. 

— Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor