FSC Canada’s ‘Stand for Forests’ video has won an Applied Arts Award for Single Animation. The Applied Arts Awards competition is an international recognition of creative excellence for professional, personal/unpublished and student work. For 30 years the Applied Arts Awards competition has recognized the creative work and set the bar for creative excellence in visual arts, including creative advertising, design photography, illustration, and interactive. The winning video shares the mission of the Forest Stewardship Council from award winning motion graphic design studio Good Form, with narration by Juno award winning artist and member of the Peguis First Nation, William Prince, sound design by Jeff Moberg and script by Nicholas Blagrave.
Yesterday, the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM) launched the Canadian Dialogue on Wildfire and Forest Resilience to support the development of a pan-Canadian Wildland Fire Prevention and Mitigation Strategy. Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) supports the government’s formal launch of the national discussion and was pleased to participate as a panelist. FPAC is committed to being an active and engaged voice in finding solutions to address the growing risk of wildland fires in Canada. Canada’s commitment to sustainable forest management is rooted in supporting forest health and keeping forests as forests forever. This places Canada’s forest sector in a unique position to be a key partner in a whole-of-society approach in providing landscape-scale solutions on the ground – solutions that will strengthen economic opportunities for forested communities and help prevent and mitigate impacts from catastrophic fires. 
…Twenty years and 50 million devastated acres of forest later, the mountain pine beetle can share the blame for one of the worst lumber shortages in history, with 
The B.C. government claims it protects nearly 20 per cent of the province’s land base as sanctuaries for biodiversity, but a new report says it has abused a key designation to “falsely inflate” its progress. The report, which was jointly produced between the environmental law group Ecojustice and the B.C. chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, examined Old Growth Management Areas, Wildlife Habitat Areas, and Wildland Zones. Together, they account for nearly all of what the province claims as “other conserved” areas, a designation B.C. uses more than any other province in Canada. That means that 20 per cent of all the land the B.C. government claims to protect is at risk from some combination of logging, oil and gas exploration or road building, says Tori Ball, acting terrestrial conservation manager with Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society BC. … “We see old-growth areas that can easily have borders redrawn.”
We have come to the extremely hard decision to cancel the rally for February 22nd. After speaking with VicPD, there is just so much going on that our message risks getting lost. The issues facing the industry are far too important to run that risk and activities happening in and around legislature are far too volatile right now. But our fight doesn’t go away because we have to cancel the rally. Looking back, here are some things that have helped: participating in Question Period at the legislature and local pop-up rallies. I am taking it upon myself to commit to sitting in the gallery twice per week with anyone who will join me until we get a round table discussion with minister Conroy. And taking the rallies to every corner of British Columbia. You can help by sending me concerns/questions for question period or joining me in person. For more information contact me at 
…A province famous for being gorgeous has become a global mascot for environmental mayhem. …A century of homegrown resource extraction — of industrial fishing and logging and mining for gold and gas and coal, all of it on stolen land — has left us terribly exposed. …And so, I’ve had wide-ranging conversations with people inside the BC NDP government, as well as allies and critics. They include B.C.’s ministers of environment, George Heyman, and Indigenous relations, Murray Rankin; three former and current senior officials who are familiar with cabinet’s inner workings and spoke on condition of anonymity; a co-author of the Old Growth Strategic Review; Indigenous leaders, environmental activists, political scientists and more. …This piece is the first of three resulting from those discussions — the B.C. government tapes, we’ll call them. …my hope is to provide a clear view of the forces affecting all sides of our mutual struggle for progressive politics and environmental protection.
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. – The BC Wildlife Federation is worried that a tentative agreement between Blueberry River First Nations and the provincial government will majorly impact outdoor recreation in Northeast BC. The province and Blueberry River signed an agreement to establish a 
Join Forest Practices Board Chair, Kevin Kriese, and project lead, Tracy Andrews, RPF, to learn more about the Board’s recent Special Report on 
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Groups that have long been at odds on forest management issues have reached a consensus on … how the U.S. Forest Service drafts land management plans on three national forests in Northeastern Oregon and Southeastern Washington. [The] access subcommittee of the Blue Mountains Intergovernmental Council (BIC) submitted its final rule and desired conditions to the full council. The Forest Service formed the BIC, made up of county officials, tribal members and other stakeholders … after the agency’s proposed 2018 management plan revision fizzled in the face of intense public scrutiny. The three national forests covered by the management plan … make up a third of Oregon’s national forest land. … [The] desired conditions will form a foundation for the broader guidelines surrounding key issues such as forest access, elk security, forest health and grazing when the Forest Service begins the process of revising its management plan for the Blue Mountain Forest.
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Throughout the last few years, we’ve witnessed firsthand the devastation that wildfires can do in this country. However, when the fires aren’t active, there are people on the ground researching and studying ways to restore our forests, but also prevent devastation. Now, that information will be shared through a federal database based in New Mexico. Alan Barton, the director of the Forest and Watershed Restoration Institute, says fires are meant to burn, but not in this destructive manner. …Years of fire suppression efforts have impacted the way our forests operate. Now, the federal government is getting involved, setting aside $3 billion in January to help contain these fires. Some of that money will go towards a national database, overseen by The New Mexico Forestry Institute. …Now, it will be expanded to include information and research from 49 other states. 
Recently the Biden administration announced it will spend billions of dollars on logging forests to preclude or slow the spread of large wildfires. One of the arguments alleged by proponents of thinning or logging forests is that it would preclude wildfires and reduce carbon emissions from wildfire. Proponents argue that more trees survive a fire if there has been “active forest management.” The problem with such ebullient pronouncements is that they fail to provide a full accounting of the carbon losses and emissions. A number of studies that reviewed carbon emissions conclude that logging and wood processing emits far more carbon than a fire. …In fact, one estimate suggests that it may take 100 years to replace the carbon loss resulting from forest management. …If you are running in the wrong direction, running faster doesn’t do you any good The best management for our forests and climate is to stop logging our public forests.
LOS ANGELES — Assemblymember Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) and bill co-sponsors announced the reintroduction of Assembly Bill (AB) 1979, The California Deforestation-Free Procurement Act. “AB 1979 will expand California’s leadership on addressing climate change, protecting biodiversity, respecting Indigenous rights, and responding to the environmental emergency that is tropical deforestation,” said Assemblymember Kalra. “I remain committed to enacting a policy that ensures our state purchases and contracts do not inadvertently contribute to this global crisis and in doing so we can encourage more transparency and sustainable practices throughout global markets.” …If passed, all California state contracts involving commodities that put tropical forests at risk, such as palm oil, soy, cattle, rubber, paper/pulp and timber, would require contractors to maintain a “forest policy” and provide evidence that their operations in sensitive tropical regions are not linked to forest destruction and degradation or abuses of Indigenous Peoples’ rights. 
More than 70 environmental groups today launched a campaign that calls on President Biden to protect mature trees and forests on federal lands from logging. While many policymakers look to shiny new technologies to solve the climate crisis, advocates say that safeguarding trees has long been a simple way to store carbon dioxide, preventing the potent greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and warming the planet. “We often call it the climate solution you don’t have to invent,” Ellen Montgomery, public lands campaign director for Environment America, told The Climate 202. “Trees are literally standing right there in front of us.” In addition to Environment America, the groups launching the campaign include the Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, Natural Resources Defense Council and Wild Heritage. Their specific demand is for the U.S. Forest Service to begin crafting a rule to protect all old-growth trees on federal lands from logging. 
