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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

September 14, 2015

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

Seedling

Heavy lifting remains to bring silviculture contractors into Forestry Service Providers Compensation Fund

July 7, 2015

When the B.C. government passed the Forest Service Providers Protection Act in 2010 it was intended to provide forestry operators who contract to licensees protection against losses should a client become insolvent. The then recent bankruptcy of Pope & Talbot made it clear that logging firms, silviculture contractors, seedling nurseries and forestry consultants were exposed …  Read more

WSCA Annual Report 2008

March 15, 2008

WSCA Annual Report 2008 WSCA ANNUAL REPORT 2008  Read more

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