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Forest management is the quiet crisis behind today’s news

  • Forests are more than just wood. They are complex ecosystems. They are sources of life. They are home to thousands of species. They provide
Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN | July 28, 2025
A wildfire burns through a Canadian boreal forest in 2016. A new study has found that wildfire carbon emissions in the world’s boreal forests have almost tripled since 2001. Photograph courtesy of Stefan Doerr

Forest management is the quiet crisis behind today’s news

Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN | July 28, 2025
  • Forests are more than just wood. They are complex ecosystems. They are sources of life. They are home to thousands of species. They provide

Forest management is the quiet crisis behind today’s news

Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN | July 28, 2025
  • Forests are more than just wood. They are complex ecosystems. They are sources of life. They are home to thousands of species. They provide
A wildfire burns through a Canadian boreal forest in 2016. A new study has found that wildfire carbon emissions in the world’s boreal forests have almost tripled since 2001. Photograph courtesy of Stefan Doerr

Canada must not join the deregulation race to the bottom

  • Long-term forestry-based employment can only be sustained if forests are managed to ensure their continued ecological integrity.
Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN, MICHAEL POLANYI | April 30, 2025
Trees
Trees
Canada must recognize that forest degradation is occurring and move to redress it, write Rachel Plotkin, Julee Boan, and Michael Polanyi. Photograph courtesy of Pexels/Felix Mittermeier

Canada must not join the deregulation race to the bottom

Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN, MICHAEL POLANYI | April 30, 2025
  • Long-term forestry-based employment can only be sustained if forests are managed to ensure their continued ecological integrity.

Canada must not join the deregulation race to the bottom

Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN, MICHAEL POLANYI | April 30, 2025
  • Long-term forestry-based employment can only be sustained if forests are managed to ensure their continued ecological integrity.
Trees
Canada must recognize that forest degradation is occurring and move to redress it, write Rachel Plotkin, Julee Boan, and Michael Polanyi. Photograph courtesy of Pexels/Felix Mittermeier

Will logging more in healthy forests reduce wildfire risk?

  • Expanding industrial logging into remaining unlogged forests is not the solution; more broad forest management is.
Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN | July 31, 2024
The wildfires pictured on July 24, 2024, in Williams Lake, B.C. Tom Cameron, who sent this photo to The Hill Times, said the fire was about 500 metres from his home. 'One minute we were sitting down to dinner and the next we were throwing our go bags and family albums in the trucks getting ready to flee. Scary stuff.' The Hill Times photograph courtesy of Tom Cameron

Will logging more in healthy forests reduce wildfire risk?

Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN | July 31, 2024
  • Expanding industrial logging into remaining unlogged forests is not the solution; more broad forest management is.

Will logging more in healthy forests reduce wildfire risk?

Opinion | BY RACHEL PLOTKIN, JULEE BOAN | July 31, 2024
  • Expanding industrial logging into remaining unlogged forests is not the solution; more broad forest management is.
The wildfires pictured on July 24, 2024, in Williams Lake, B.C. Tom Cameron, who sent this photo to The Hill Times, said the fire was about 500 metres from his home. 'One minute we were sitting down to dinner and the next we were throwing our go bags and family albums in the trucks getting ready to flee. Scary stuff.' The Hill Times photograph courtesy of Tom Cameron

The forest carbon loophole

  • When forests are logged, even after accounting for post-cutting forest growth and carbon stored in harvested wood products, there is a net emission of
Opinion | BY JULEE BOAN, JAY MALCOLM | February 7, 2024
An aerial view of the Donnie Creek Complex fire in northern British Columbia on May 27, 2023. Canada applies inconsistent rules when it comes to counting the carbon emissions from forests affected by wildfires, write Julee Boan and Jay Malcolm. Photograph courtesy of the B.C. Wildfire Service/X

The forest carbon loophole

Opinion | BY JULEE BOAN, JAY MALCOLM | February 7, 2024
  • When forests are logged, even after accounting for post-cutting forest growth and carbon stored in harvested wood products, there is a net emission of

The forest carbon loophole

Opinion | BY JULEE BOAN, JAY MALCOLM | February 7, 2024
  • When forests are logged, even after accounting for post-cutting forest growth and carbon stored in harvested wood products, there is a net emission of
An aerial view of the Donnie Creek Complex fire in northern British Columbia on May 27, 2023. Canada applies inconsistent rules when it comes to counting the carbon emissions from forests affected by wildfires, write Julee Boan and Jay Malcolm. Photograph courtesy of the B.C. Wildfire Service/X
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