Forestry

A field worker wearing an orange hard hat sits on a mossy log in front of a large, hollow tree base in a dense forest.

On Haida Gwaii, Logging Took The Trees That Bears Called Home. Now, The Haida Nation Is Building Them New Dens.

The Haida Nation is crafting artificial dens from stumps to shelter coastal black bears for the upcoming winter, while hoping the effort doesn’t become an excuse for clear-cutting to continue unchecked.

By: Sonal Gupta

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How Wildfire Can Bring Us Closer to the Land 

First Nations ecologist and professor Dr. Jennifer Grenz works with the Indigenous Ecology Lab to advocate for traditional burning practices. 

By: Cameron Fenton

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How Do Threats to the Roadless Rule Affect Tribes? This Digital Hub Is Essential.

The Roadless Rule Tribal Hub was created to connect Native communities with the facts, on-the-ground tools to submit letters, and more. 

By: Nicholas Triolo 

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The Word for Forest Is Family

Suzanne Simard’s new book, a New York Times bestseller, is an ode to the enduring, interlocking world of loss and regeneration.

By: Nicholas Triolo

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Before Wildfire Season Begins, Indigenous Firekeepers Gather in B.C. to Share Knowledge

In March, attendees of a Salish Fire Keepers Society gathering learned about decolonizing fire management, working with blazes to protect the land and more.

By: Aaron Hemens

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The otherworldly beauty of the Tongass National Forest is at the heart of the livelihood of many local Southeast Alaska businesses that host a booming tourism industry. “They don’t come here to see clearcuts,” says Dan Blanchard, whose small-boat cruise operation draws 7,000 to 10,000 visitors every summer to see the big trees, bears and wild salmon that have thrived under the protection of the federal Roadless Rule. (Amy Gulick)

Target on Tongass

The wildest national forest in the U.S. may soon lose its protections.

By: Lynda Mapes, Photography by Amy Gulick

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How Forest Therapy Is Responding to Megafire 

A new program at Chico State University demonstrates the restorative power of connecting with the environment to turn loss into community strength. Does it work?

By: Syris Valentine

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Would You Choose Wood Tiles over Ceramic Ones? This Startup Bets Yes

Timber Tiles on Vancouver Island offers a climate-friendly alternative to an ancient craft that today relies on fossil fuels.

By: Andrew Findlay

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The visitor’s centre at VanDusen Botanical Garden, completed in 2011. Globally, ‘BC is still probably the hotbed of design and knowledge’ for mass timber, says Tobias Fast of Fast + Epp, whose firm handled structural engineering for the project designed by architects Perkins&Will. StructureCraft supplied the wood elements. Photo by Nic Lehoux.

Building the Future with Wood

Meet people reinventing construction by pushing ‘mass timber’ bigger and higher. It’s good for the planet too.

By: Christopher Cheung

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