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Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
In the 2017 and 2018, 2.55 million hectares burned across British Columbia, Canada, including unanticipated large and high-severity fires in many dry forests. To transform forest and fire management to achieve resilience to future megafires requires improved understanding historical fire frequency, severity, and spatial patterns. Our dendroecological reconstructions of 35 plots in a 161-hectare study area in a dry Douglas-fir forest revealed historical fires that burned at a wide range of frequencies and severities at both the plot- and study-area scales. The 23 fires between 1619 and 1943 burned at intervals of 10–30 years, primarily at low- to moderate-severity that scarred trees but generated few cohorts. In contrast, current fire-free intervals of 70–180 years exceed historical maximum intervals. Of the six widespread fires from 1790 to 1905, the 1863 fi
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Twenty-three students in Algonquin College’s Forestry Technician Program recently planted 30,000 trees in Algonquin Park and the Nipissing Forest. The trees are a living memorial, each planted in memory of someone who recently passed away.
The project was sponsored by the Ontario Woodlot Association, the Canadian Institute of Forestry, Friends of the Petawawa Research Forest, Nipissing Forest Management Inc. and the Algonquin Forestry Authority.
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Gordon Stone didn’t leave many stones unturned in his life.
The retired Sault College professor, who died Tuesday at 85, used his retirement to write, hone his love of photography and share his faith as a United Church member.
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John Clement started teaching at Sault College shortly before Stone’s retirement.
The senior faculty member of the School of Natural Environment said the Nova Scotia native was very smart and had a “profound sense” of what he was teaching. Courses the University of New Brunswick graduate taught included forest pathology, forest ecology and human relations.