Policy

Many Key 2016 BC Policy Commitments Raise Forestry Expectations

2016 saw a series of promising commitments from the BC Provincial Government including establishing the Forest Enhancement Society of BC, initiating the Forest Carbon Initiative and over $230-million in guaranteed funding for forestry projects. Many of the programs reflect goals of the WFCA. To read more, please click here Read more

Background on Drug and Alcohol Policy and Practice For Employers

Please click here for the full report: Workplace Alcohol and Drug Resource Package, Please click here for the full report: Alcohol and Drugs: Canadian Policy Development Read more

An airtanker plane dropping fire retardant over the advancing Chelan Butte wildfire (part of the Chelan Complex fire) in Chelan, Washington. By Ben Brooks.

Why forest fires seem like they are getting out of control

Wildfire historian and author Stephen Pyne says we are in a new order of wildfire in North America: the megafire era. Fire is now capable of going beyond wild to what he calls “feral” or “rabid.” Yet the very conditions humans have created to host these megafires are where we can intervene to survive in this new … Read more