Just south of the N.W.T. border, a First Nation is thinning 7 hectares of forest to protect homes from wildfires. The N.W.T. used the same tool to try to double the carbon storage of pine trees near Sandy Lake this past summer.Becky Kostka, the lands and resources manager at Smith’s Landing First Nation, says the…
Evacuees from two northwestern Ontario First Nations who have been staying in Thunder Bay for nearly a month are expected to return home in the coming days.More than 115 forest fires were burning in northwestern Ontario as of Monday morning. (Ontario Forest Fires/Twitter)Evacuees from two northwestern Ontario First Nations who have been staying in Thunder Bay…
A forest near Penticton, B.C., shows how thinning out the woodlands can make a difference when it comes to slowing the spread of wildfires.A machine picks up debris off the forest floor near Kelowna, B.C. Thinning out woodlands and doing other work in the forest can make a difference when it comes to slowing the…
[ad_1] Local communities, properly referred to as forest-fringed communities that live in the threshold of the forests in many parts of the…
[ad_1] In the northern California coast, nature has created her own forest of bonsai trees. Instead of pots, she used iron cemented…