Natural Resources committee  It's highly likely. If the experience in British Columbia is any example, if you have a large-scale infestation by a bug or a fungus or a bacteria, you can count on a huge pulse of wood potentially being available, if the insect or disease vector doesn't damage the wood so you ca

Natural Resources committee  The fundamental difference is that FSC develops the standard on an ecosystem basis. For example, the boreal forest or the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence forests in southern Ontario and Quebec is a multi-stakeholder standard. You end up with industry, aboriginal groups, environmenta

Natural Resources committee  Yes, I think it's possible, and a lot of forest scientists are very concerned that the mountain pine beetle, for example, which is the existing insect problem we have in B.C., because it feeds on lodgepole pine, there's a significant possibility that this species could learn to a

Natural Resources committee  That's a good question. I think the big wild cards in that equation centre around climate change for sure, because I think we've yet to see how their impacts are going to play out. The mountain pine beetle is a really good example of that. Native species--no one would have guess

Natural Resources committee  I'd say that to keep it simple we need to complete a protected areas network in this country, control areas where we are not exploiting the resource, that are left in a wild state so we can study how natural forests work under climate change scenarios, provide places for wildlife

Natural Resources committee  I think with the species that you mentioned, the peregrine falcon and the bald eagle, you need to look at what the cause of the original endangerment was. In the case of both of those species it was chemical contamination, DDT principally, that caused eggshell thinning and less r

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for inviting me here today. Chris Henschel is with me from the staff of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society here in Ottawa. My name is Tim Gray, and I've been working on forest conservation, forest policy, and forest economic issues for about 15 years. I worked