Starting on a sad note; Mike Apsey, one of Canada most influential and respected forestry professionals, died September 1, 2022.
In Forestry/Climate news: industry groups call Canada’s climate change strategy ‘vague and distant‘; ENGOs decry lack of action on BC’s forest policy overhaul; and IAE Bioenergy says wood bioenergy is part of a sustainable energy mix. On the Wildfire front: Parks Canada returns to burning in parks; US homes are being built in harm’s way; how controlled burns can protect US forests (and how they may not); and fire updates from BC, Oregon, California and Spain.
In other news: SFPA’s Forest Products EXPO returns with its own playlist; winners of the 2022 Timber in the City competition are announced; and although it seems early – the TLA on what employers need to know about winter driving.
Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog Editor
Two years into a three-year process to defer the logging of some of B.C.’s grandest trees in its most ecologically diverse wilderness so that forestry stewardship could undergo a vast transformation, First Nations and conservationists are decrying a lack of progress and transparency. “Clearcutting of irreplaceable, endangered old growth continues, even in the most-at-risk stands,” said Jens Wieting with Sierra Club B.C. as part of 
In an 
INDIANA — Indiana just experienced its biggest day ever for land conservation. …On Sept. 6, the Next Level Conservation Trust Project Committee met and decided 
Just weeks before the federal government intends to release its 
As the European Parliament (EP) prepares to vote on biomass amendments on 14 September, and amidst a 
As smoky skies fill much of British Columbia’s Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley, 191 wildfires continue to burn across the province, leading to hundreds of people on evacuation alerts, as well as evacuation orders in the Peace region. Right now, five of the active wildfires are considered notable: the Flood Falls Trail and Heather Lake wildfires in the Coastal fire centre; the Fry Creek wildfire in the Southeast fire centre; and the Battleship Mountain and Bearhole Lake wildfires in the Prince George fire centre. An air quality advisory has been issued for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley because of high concentrations of fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke in B.C. and the United States.
THE fire which started last Thursday afternoon, September 8, in Los Guajares, and has now razed through 3,000 hectares of land, is believed to be a human-caused wildfire. According to members of the Forest Fire Investigation Brigade (BIIF), the exact point at which the fire started has been identified. Specifically, at a spot few centimeters from a particular curve in the road linking the villages of Guajar Faragüit and Guajar Alto. As stated by Antonio Aguilar, head of the BIIF in Granada, natural causes such as lightning or any similar phenomenon have been ruled out as the cause of this currently ongoing fire in Granada. However, Aguilar and his team, who are currently preparing a report on the incident, are yet to decide whether the origin is intentional or the result of the negligence of a person passing through the area.