At the end of the forest: a former Vancouver Island mill town’s struggle for reinvention
Tahsis was built to support the province’s once-booming logging industry. Now, amid industry closures and...
How the Williams Lake flood in B.C. is linked to wildfire and deforestation
Water-repellent forest floors, soil erosion and a lack of tree cover all influence how snowpack...
How reader feedback powered our story on tree-planting amid the coronavirus pandemic
This is the web version of The Narwhal’s newsletter. Go here to sign up. Every year, hundreds...
The complicated tale of why B.C. paid $2 million to shoot wolves in endangered caribou habitat this winter
The province killed 463 wolves in the habitat of 10 herds, spending an average $4,300...
B.C. cautiously opens tree-planting season with new coronavirus rules some say won’t protect remote communities
Wildfire, pine beetle and industrial logging have left some areas of the province vulnerable to...
Haida-owned forest products company spills 4,500 litres of diesel off Haida Gwaii
Work is being done in Dinan Bay to prevent contaminants from reaching rivers where sockeye...
B.C. giving millions to transform rainforest into wood pellets for export, new report documents
The rapidly growing wood pellet export industry claims it offers a renewable energy fuel source...
B.C.’s most ambitious tree-planting season ever on the chopping block as coronavirus wreaks havoc
Industry rushes to come up with plan that will enable 5,000 tree planters to get...
Canada’s forests remain under threat — and the clock is ticking for governments to step up
If forests are our future, then the future is fragmented, overrun and on the brink...
