Natural Resources Canada has supported the planting of over 110 million trees since the program was launched in 2021 – exceeding the goal to plant approximately 90 million trees during the first two years of the program and is putting us on track to achieve the two billion trees commitment. At an event today in Surrey, Minister Wilkinson announced 16 new 2 Billion Trees program contribution agreements totalling over $100 million that will support the planting of an additional 56 million trees in the years ahead. As Canadians continue to experience devastating wildfires across the country, causing the loss of habitat and biodiversity, Minister Wilkinson confirmed four of the new agreements announced today, backed by $63.9 million in federal funding, will support the planting of 35 million trees to specifically help restore wildfire-impacted forests and rehabilitate reserve lands that have been damaged by previous wildfires.
Additional coverage in The Victoria Times Colonist, by the Canadian Press: Pledge to plant 2 billion trees lofty but attainable, Natural Resources minister says
CBC News by David Thurton: Ottawa announces its 2 billion tree program is surpassing targets
Forest Week is an annual campaign that raises awareness about sustainable forestry. It highlights FSC’s work and the role that forest stewards, like you, have in fighting climate change and biodiversity loss. This year, the campaign will take place from 23 -29 September under the theme Trust the Tree. Forest Week calls upon the full FSC system worldwide to help showcase the importance of sustainable forestry efforts, inspiring customers to act by choosing FSC-certified products. Our goal is to encourage customers to choose products with the FSC logo, a credible mark of sustainable forestry. By taking part, you’re amplifying the message about how sustainable forestry solutions help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss. 
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Residents who may be using area forests are being reminded that the Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry will be starting an aerial chemical herbicide spray August 1st. A total of 629 hectares have been identified for the 2023-2024 spray project for the Dryden Forest, these areas were seeded in the years between 2017 and 2022 with black and white spruce, along with lesser amounts of jack pine. The campaign is targeting trees which compete against those coniferous trees on harvest sites. Those competitors include poplar trees, herbaceous weeds, raspberries and alder. A spokesperson for the MNRF says stress on a seedling after planting can be intensified by growth of non-crop vegetation, especially during the first two years, which could result on decreased growth. …The herbicide needs to be applied before the deciduous tree species go dormant for the year, which given that requirement, most aerial spray programs will be completed by mid to late September.
In an effort to slash carbon emissions and provide relief from extreme heat, governments across the nation and globally have pledged to plant trees. But the US is not equipped with the tree seedlings to furnish its own plans, 
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350 whitebark pines are growing at the Little Bear Orchard, managed by U.S. Forest Service employees in the Custer Gallatin National Forest. …The Forest Service hosted a tour of the orchard on Monday to teach people about the threatened tree and share details on efforts to restore the keystone species. A combination of blister rust, mountain pine beetle, environmental shifts and changing fire patterns have decimated the whitebark pine across the West. A 2018 study by the Forest Service found that 51% of all standing whitebark pine trees in the United States are dead. The tree was listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in December. But sometimes, in an area that’s been decimated by blister rust, there’s one or two trees that appear healthy. Experts believe those lone resistant trees could be the key to restoring the species.
Green Diamond Resource Company, the Seattle-based forest landowner and manager released its first 
The Green Party’s advocacy has secured an amendment to the Natural and Built Environment Bill at a crucial stage of the Parliamentary process to ensure the Government provides national direction on protecting urban trees. “This is a big Green Party win. Alongside thousands of New Zealanders, the Green Party has been pushing for better recognition and protection for urban trees for more than a decade,” says Green Party environment spokesperson Eugenie Sage. “Increasing urban tree cover has massive benefits for our cities and towns. Our mature trees – especially native trees – are taonga and deserve to be protected. They are crucial habitats for birds and insects, they harvest stormwater, stop erosion, provide shade, a place for children to play and enhance the livability of our cities and towns.
The upsurgence of global wildfire events is an early warning for potential large-scale fires in New Zealand forests and rural landscapes this upcoming summer season, says the New Zealand Institute of Forestry (NZIF). NZIF president, James Treadwell, is calling for better coordination and management of these fire risks, saying there is an urgent need to prioritise at-risk land management issues over deployment of firefighting aircrafts and building of more fire trucks. Fire risks specific to New Zealand are the vast areas covered by self-sown exotics or retired hill and high-country tussock grasslands, which were historically burned every seven to ten years by lease-holding farmers. “The ceasing of these practices has resulted in an accumulation of fuel across the hill and high-country landscape throughout the country,” Treadwell says. Previously, much of this landscape had lower fuel loadings, enabling swift containment of unwanted fires. This is no longer the case.
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