Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) president and CEO Derek Nighbor discussed the economic opportunities related to managing Canada’s forests during the Scaling Up Bio 2024 Conference in Ottawa. His presentation, “Canada’s forest bioeconomy: Pushing forward,” focused on building opportunities through forest fire management. “We’ve got a huge fire problem in Canada, and the bioeconomy, and finding markets for low-grade wood and using every part of that tree, using some of the stuff that’s dying to get in the bush for higher value, is absolutely critical,” Nighbor said. He said managing forest fires is key to improving air quality while addressing Canada’s biggest carbon emissions generator, which is forest fires. …To improve forest fire management, Nighbor recommended sustainable funding for the municipalities most at risk. These funds could go towards educating those communities while protecting them through proactive forest management.