To plant more than 4,500 trees in one day, you don’t move like a gardener, you move like a machine. In a video viewed millions of times on social media, Leslie Dart walks across a desolate and burnt landscape in Saskatchewan. She plunges a small spade into the ground, levers open a hole, drops in…
She Planted More Than 4,500 Trees in a Day and Found an Audience of Millions
When Environmental Radicalism Is More Harmful Than Good
Commentary When mindless environmental zealotry turns into environmental vandalism and economic destruction something is badly wrong. What turns the wrong into an inexcusable outrage is when the government allows it to occur, ignoring the common good which is at stake. This is exactly the state of play in the state of Victoria where the debt-ridden…
Early Axing of Logging Falls Hard on Victorian Timber Towns
At an early morning toolbox meeting, Kevin de Hoedt’s boss assured his sawmill team they had work for the next six years. By lunchtime, he broke the news their industry would be gone in six months. The Victorian government announced on May 23 it would phase out harvesting native forests by next year, shocking the…
Drone Buzz Over Australian State Forests, No Worries for Gliders
Concerns over drones monitoring native endangered species of Australian gliders in Victoria appear to have been overblown after researchers found creatures could care less about the night-flying robotic invaders. Gliders, also known as flying possums, are marsupial mammals of Australasia that volplane between trees, much like flying squirrels in the northern hemisphere. The drones were…
Greens Senate Power Play Gives Hollow Victory, Minister Says
March 10, 2023
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The Minister for Industry and Investment, Ed Husic, has pushed back on claims the Greens party have won a victory over the government after negotiations on the National Reconstruction Fund (NRF) saw amendments to stop the Fund from investing in future coal and gas projects, and native forests logging. The NRF is a corporate Commonwealth entity that…
BC Agrees to Pay $300,000 to Couple Who Say Logging Flooded Their Property
Lawyers for the British Columbia government have agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit by a couple whose property flooded after a third of the forest in the surrounding watershed was cut down. The agreement came in a handwritten note that was signed by the Crown’s lawyers and handed over in court on the…
Logging and the Art of Gardening
January 3, 2022
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“I love trees,” said the forester. His name is Cliff Foster, and I believe him. But how does that square with the environmentalists’ view that foresters and loggers are chain-saw-wielding tree slashers who are only a few generations away from J. R. R. Tolkien’s orcs? My view of loggers wasn’t that extreme, especially since my…
Logging Truck Collides With RCMP Vehicles Headed to Enforce B.C. Injunction
Mounties on southern Vancouver Island say three officers were hospitalized with injuries after a collision involving a logging truck Tuesday morning. The RCMP say the officers were driving along a logging road near Port Renfrew, where they were heading to enforce a court injunction against blockades set up to protest old-growth logging. Police say in…
Election Day: Trudeau Wants Vaccination for All; O’Toole Warns About Trudeau’s Track Record
Hot-topic issues like the pandemic and vaccination, skyrocketing house prices, and indigenous reconciliation have driven the debate these past few weeks in the federal election campaign, and today voters will choose what matters most to them and who they think will actually deliver on their promises. Party leaders concluded their campaigning on Sept. 19 with…
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