Healthy Forest Partnership “In the news” features original news stories with our experts, from both French and English media sources (not translated).
The Nova Scotia forest industry is hoping Tuesday’s federal budget will contain funding for a program that is attempting to halt the spread of a devastating pest to the province’s woodlands.
Read moreMoth scales, preserved in the mud of a coniferous forest lake, have been used to identify outbreaks of these insects over the past 10,000 years.
Read moreLes gestionnaires de forêts privées du Québec demandent 10 millions de dollars pour la remise en production des peuplements attaqués, ou en voie de l'être, par la tordeuse des bourgeons de l'épinette.
Read moreLa tordeuse des bourgeons de l'épinette vit dans nos forêts depuis la fin de l'ère glaciaire, il y a environ 10 000 ans. Trois spécialistes nous expliquent le comportement du ravageur, comment dépister l'insecte et le combattre.
Read moreNew Brunswick is stepping up its efforts in the battle against a spruce budworm outbreak.
Read moreHigh above the northern shore of the St. Lawrence estuary in eastern Quebec, Karl Blackburn could see the damage to the forest below.
Read moreSeeing them once again on radar over parts of Quebec is again stoking fears.
Read moreThe Town of Gander has announced that it will once again be partaking in the spruce budworm tracking program.
Read moreNew Brunswick has just finished spraying more than 80,000 hectares of forest against the spruce budworm, the dreaded insect that infests the province every 30 years or so.
Read moreFederal government scientists believe that it is probably too late to counteract the spread of the spruce budworm in Quebec and that it is necessary to prepare for a major epidemic.
Read moreLes scientifiques du gouvernement fédéral croient qu’il est sans doute trop tard pour contrer la propagation de la tordeuse des bourgeons de l’épinette au Québec et qu’il faut se préparer à une épidémie importante.
Read moreDepuis quelques jours, des milliers de papillons de la tordeuse des bourgeons de l'épinette ont été aperçus à divers endroits sur la Côte-Nord, notamment à Baie-Comeau.
Read moreResearchers are testing new ways of keeping another spruce budworm outbreak from happening - by stopping the worm's moth from reproducing.
Read moreRosanne Lamb and Glen Forbes of the Canadian Forest Service have set up a 'mating disruption' project in the Acadia Research Forest in New Brunswick.
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