Natural Resources committee  For pathways for invasive species spread, you first have to look at the pathway into Canada, how it's getting here in the first place, and then once it's in Canada, the pathway of how it spreads through the country. For the firewood pathway analysis we did, we were looking at sp

Natural Resources committee  The mountain pine beetle population is really widespread. I don't think the fire would burn all the area infested. Cutting and burning trees is one of the approaches, although generally the beetles have already left the standing dead trees. If those trees are burning, it's not

Natural Resources committee  They found a few more infested trees in the area. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency was leading a delimitation survey around the infested tree, but we had already established a network of citizen scientists in the area and we had already done training on emerald ash borer ide

Natural Resources committee  We don't personally do the eradications. We would inform our partners who would actually do the on-the-ground work. In terms of tree removal, whether they could just chip it or burn it usually depends on the insect.

Natural Resources committee  It depends on the insect. It also depends on the life stage of the insect. If it's larvae under the bark and you chip up the tree, it can't complete its life cycle. However, for something such as the mountain pine beetle, the approach is cutting and burning the trees and then als

Natural Resources committee  The relationship between the mountain pine beetle and fire is still an ongoing area of study. The history of fire suppression is one of the factors that led to the mountain pine beetle outbreak in the first place. Now that there are all these standing dead trees, there are some w

Natural Resources committee  This was part of the case study that we had looked into, doing a risk assessment process and then making some recommendations to the Province of Ontario and in eastern Canada to prepare for the potential invasion of the mountain pine beetle. We have a number of recommendations.

Natural Resources committee  Our definition of “invasive” is that it has to be introduced to somewhere outside of its native range, as you've heard, and it has to have potential ecological, social and economic impacts. For something like the mountain pine beetle, it's spreading further than it ever has bef

Natural Resources committee  It's been detected in parts around the Niagara Gorge and then eradicated by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. There have been detections, and it's established in Nova Scotia. In Ontario, it's been detected twice and quickly eradicated.

Natural Resources committee  The Asian long-horned beetle would be another one.