Forestry
Forestry is the science and craft of creating, managing, using, conserving and repairing forests, woodlands, and associated resources for human and environmental benefits. Forestry is practiced in plantations and natural stands. The science of forestry has elements that belong to the biological, physical, social, political and managerial sciences.Modern forestry generally embraces a broad range of concerns, in what is known as multiple-use management, including: The provision of timber Fuel wood Wildlife habitat Natural water quality management Recreation Landscape and community protection Employment Aesthetically appealing landscapes Biodiversity management Watershed management Erosion control Preserving forests as "sinks" for atmospheric carbon dioxideA practitioner …
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Fraser Institute · 13 November 2024 English
Since 2000, Quebec’s real per-capita GDP has grown at an annual average of 1.2 percent, while Ontario’s has grown at 0.7 percent—both below the Canadian average. Ontario and Quebec’s real …
6 billion in natural resource revenues (mainly forestry and mining fees and charges) while Quebec took …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English
The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …
would spend his summers fighting fires with the forestry department. When Georges was about four, he and … Pilot’s Monument. For a few summers I worked at the forestry department fighting forest fires. I loved all … early in the morning at the forestry yard, where the head of the local forestry department would pick how …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 28 October 2024 English
This policy brief argues that Canada's proposed oil and gas emissions cap is needed but cautions that some of the proposed compliance flexibilities may—instead of making the cap easier to …
additionality is likely mostly an issue for the latter. Forestry-based offsets are plagued with questions about …
IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 16 October 2024 English
Providing a comprehensive understanding of how different countries are navigating the complexities of maintaining a robust mining sector, supplying the world with critical minerals, and reducing emissions from coal mining …
Mt (excluding land use, land-use change, and forestry [LULUCF]), up from 90.61 Mt in 2005 (IMF, 2023) … transport infrastructure, mining, fisheries, forestry, and agriculture. BUR was released in November …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English
Oil workers are often typecast as rough: embodying the toxic masculinity, racism, consumerist excess, and wilful ignorance of the extractive industries and petrostates they work for. But their poetry troubles …
service of her family, the military, and the forestry and oil-and-gas industries, Dronyk assembles …
Great Lakes United · 28 September 2024 English
Emilie has a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies with a Minor in Biology from Carleton University, a Bachelor of Education with qualifications in Intermediate and Senior Sciences from the …
major at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Matias attended Nottingham High School in Syracuse … from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He has worked for NYS Parks for nearly 17 years …
Alberta Water Council · 26 September 2024 English
They form the basis for a multitude of operational tools and mechanisms that have been developed under the Alberta Wetland Policy, and represent a significant driver in recent conversations between …
Practices is currently being applied (agriculture, forestry sound ecological principles and the best science … Department continues to engage with Agriculture and Forestry, Crop and Stock Sectors, as well as producers/private … Management Practices are known to exist (agriculture, forestry (operating through a review and assessment of … activity • The Departments of Agriculture and Forestry, Municipal Affairs, and Energy have engaged to … drainage practices with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry. 4.1.1 Create a wetland education plan that provides …
Alberta Water Council · 26 September 2024 English
5 The Government of Alberta and its Water for Life partners, working GoA and WFL partners Previously GoA: The Government of Alberta has released the Alberta Water Research Strategy closely …
in support of the irrigation sector CEP plan. Forestry: Implemented. Downstream petroleum: Implemented …
Alberta Water Council · 26 September 2024 English
Reporting will occur through the Alberta Water team was struck up in October 2015 to evaluate and report on the success of implemented Council at five-year intervals using the performance …
Alberta to improve the ability to report CEP trends. Forestry: continues to engage with AEP on water related … by submitting water use directly to GoA staff. Forestry: Implemented. WURS has not evolved to the point … an annual basis as has occurred for many years. Forestry: Implemented. Water use reporting is a regulatory …
Great Lakes United · 25 September 2024 English
This inconsistency in regulated species lists across the shared waters of the Great Lakes undermines the collective prevention efforts of the region, resulting in a “weakest link” problem, wherein the …
the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is also developing its own risk assessment tool … approaches. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry and the AIS Task Force of the Council of Great …
