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For more information on these and other news stories at the Pacific Forestry Centre, call Lynda Chambers, Media Relations Officer, Canadian Forest Service, at (250) 363-0794 or email at lychambe@pfc.cfs.nrcan.gc.ca.

National Forest Week 2006

Colouring Between the "Lyon's"

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Mountain pine beetle model (Jpeg - 275K)
Erik Lyons and the mountain pine beetle model (Jpeg - 86K)
"The hardest part was making the legs. They were difficult to cast, being so thin," recalls Erik Lyon. (Jpeg - 93K)
Erik Lyons, the creative energy behind a series of beautifully detailed mountain pine beetle models (Jpeg - 49K)

Success is Rooted in Strategy of Compatibility

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Morel mushroom: non-timber forest products provide meaningful employment. They can provide food - seasonal delicacies, in some cases and, in others, sustenance, especially in low-income areas. (Jpeg - 221K)
Chantrelle mushroom (Jpeg - 181K)

Offering a Helping Hand

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Faster restoration of a damaged forest brings many benefits – there’s less risk of extreme wildfire once the dead trees are removed and eventually there will be less mud as the new trees are able to take up water. (Jpeg - 305K)
Gary Blattner (Jpeg - 253K)

Bringing Back the Forest

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The Mountain Pine Beetle Initiative’s Private Forestlands Rehabilitation Program helps landowners get started on beetle control, and grow a healthy forest for the future. Fast rehabilitation of affected lands speeds up forest recovery. (Jpeg - 276K)
Today, Dave and Lois Merz are watching a new forest grow. (Jpeg - 260K)

What's Eating Yew?

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Ceanothus silk moth (Hyalophora euryalis) (Jpeg - 33K)
Conifer Defoliators of British Columbia (Jpeg - 129K)
Robert (Bob) Duncan of Natural Resources Canada is the author of Conifer Defoliators of British Columbia. (Jpeg - 102K)

News Archive

Funding for replanting after mountain pine beetle damage

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Justin Calof, a Canadian Forest Service liaison officer based in Prince George, is available to give advice and to explain how landowners could qualify for funding (Jpeg - 345K)

The Burning Question: Mountain Pine Beetle and Fire in Our Forests

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Beetle Report Looks at Spread and Aftermath

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Victoria scientist honoured in Ottawa

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On June 17, Mike Apps was presented with a Government of Canada Public Service "outstanding career" award (Jpeg - 64K)

Two BC scientists win award for inventory invention

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Aerial view of the forest (Jpeg - 48K)

National Forest Week 2005

Endemic? Epidemic?
Beetle imbalance may set the stage

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If Monterey pine beetles can keep mountain pine beetles in check, Greg Smith wants to know. (Jpeg - 150K)

Defense-related genes could save trees from killer disease
Award-winning scientist pinpoints purpose of pine's protein

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Dr. Abul Ekramoddoullah (Jpeg - 390K)

UVic grad’s hyperspectral research gets boost

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University of Victoria graduate student Tian Han (Jpeg - 170K)

Local grads earn Pacific Forestry Centre award

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Kim Everett (Jpeg - 180K)
Patience Rakochy (Jpeg - 327K)

Team Learns Life Skills at Forestry Centre

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Carla Lingard, Tony Idczak, Bill Thompson, Mai-Lin Hagen and Edward Lafortune : a Garth Homer Centre Community Access Team (Jpeg- 350K)

Researchers dig up alternative to digging

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To confirm presence of root rot in a tree, researchers must dig up roots, or cut into root and stem bark. (Jpeg - 137K)
Rona Sturrock (Jpeg - 40K)
Arezoo Zamani (Jpeg - 47K)

Moth mothers modify spruce

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Spruce bud moth larva cartoon (Tiff - 10K)
Spruce bud moth (Jpeg - 261K)
Allan Carroll (Jpeg - 40K)

Collaborative research will help foresters manage beetle outbreak

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• Mountain pine beetle (Tiff - 578K)

Panels profile prolific pine pest at Fintry Park

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• Mountain pine beetle display at Fintry Provincial Park (Jpeg - 78K)
• Mountain pine beetle display (Jpeg - 294K)

Grads meet mentors at federal science lab

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• Philippe Tanguay and Dr. Simon Shamoun in the labratory (Jpeg - 21K)
• Philippe Tanguay and Dr. Simon Shamoun in the labratorie [large] (Jpeg - 249K)

Curious on-lookers get science lesson from root rot expert

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• 5 minute video of Mike and colleagues at work (58 MB - you will need Windows Media Player to view this file)
• Truck laden tree roots (Jpeg - 150K)
• Transfer of Armillaria ostoyae (Jpeg - 195K)

National Forest Week 2004

Perfect pines are limbless ’cause of Christmas

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• White pine (Coombs) (Jpeg - 131K)
• White pine (Coombs) (Jpeg - 314K)
• White pine (Coombs) (Jpeg - 148K)

Insect ecologist finds better way to predict damage by bud-chewing defoliators

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• Budworm cartoon (Gif - 44K)
• Budworm cartoon (Tif - 1.3 MB)
• Spruce budworm (Jpeg - 45K)
• Damage by the budworm (Jpeg - 41K)
• Rod Turnquist (Jpeg - 17K)
• Rod Turnquist (Tif - 6.6 MB)
• Vince Nealis (Jpeg - 19K)
• Vince Nealis (Tif - 6.6 MB)

Team will uncover what’s in dead wood

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• Rearing samples (Jpeg - 84K)
• Rearing samples (Jpeg - 565K)
• Eric Allen (Jpeg - 13K)
• Eric Allen (Tif -6.6 MB)
• Lee Humble (Jpeg - 12K)
• Lee Humble (Tif - 6.6 MB)

Free stuff is a click away

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• Bookstore Ad (Jpeg - 330K)
• Paul Addison (Gif - 38K)
• Steve Glover (Jpeg - 41K)

Natural Resources Canada recognizes gifted BC graduates

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  • Vancouver Island students
  • Lower Mainland students
• In the Lab (jpeg)

Massive mosaic is product of space-based earth observation

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• Mosaic postcard (Pdf version)
   
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• Mosaic image of Canada (Jpeg - 213K)
• Mosaic image of Victoria et Vancouver (Jpeg - 236K)
• Mosaic image of Cowichan (Jpeg - 242K)
• Mosaic image of Nelson (Jpeg - 299K)
• Mosaic image of Fort Nelson (Jpeg - 409K)
• Mosaic image of Golden (Jpeg - 298K)
• Mosaic image of Calgary (Jpeg - 379K)
• Mosaic image of Edmonton (Jpeg - 275K)
• Mosaic image of Saskatoon (Jpeg - 327K)
• Mosaic image of Winnipeg (Jpeg - 381K)
• Mosaic image of Sault Ste Marie (Jpeg - 279K)
• Mosaic image of Toronto (Jpeg - 421K)
• Mosaic image of Ottawa (Jpeg - 421K)
• Mosaic image of Montreal (Jpeg - 377K)
• Mosaic image of Quebec City (Jpeg - 294K)
• Mosaic image of Fredericton (Jpeg - 364K)
• Mosaic image of Halifax (Jpeg - 281K)
• Mosaic image of Prince Edward Island (Jpeg - 172K)
• Mosaic image of Charlottetown (Jpeg - 230K)
• Mosaic image of Corner Brook (Jpeg - 294K)
• Mosaic image of St. Johns (Jpeg - 162K)

Federal Government approves another $1 million for mountain pine beetle research

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• Mountain pine beetles (Jpeg)
• Arial research (Jpeg)
• Field testing (Jpeg)
• Looking behind the bark: searching for the beetle (Jpeg)

Predicting path of pine pest makes management more cost-effective

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• Dr Terry Shore (Jpeg)
• Stand Risk Index (gif)

Carbon tracker will help foresters combat global warming

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• New tree and burned log (Jpeg)
• Planting (Jpeg)

To catch a beetle: Scientists collaborate to build a better beetle trap

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• Emerald Ash Borer (Jpeg)
• Asian Ambrosia Beetle (Jpeg)

UVic student earns international recognition

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• Laura Johnson (Jpeg)
• Laura Johnson and group (Jpeg)

Scientists wrap living cells in bubbles

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• Richard Winder (Jpeg)
• Suspension of living cells in tiny microscopic beads of gelatin (Jpeg)

Old photographs tell tall tales

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• Felled tree was lowered to the ground (Jpeg)
• Dr. Ray LeJeune poses on the stump (Jpeg)
• Engineering crew removes some of the rigging (Jpeg)
• The top end of the downed treed (Jpeg)
• Butt end of the log (Jpeg)

Unprecedented level of detail can be extracted from digital images of forest

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• Aerial view of the forest (Jpeg)

Student and scientist join forces to unearth answers

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• Removing soil from root systems (Jpeg)

Petite predators will help save over one-million hectares of US hemlock forest

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• Looking for Laricobius nigrinus image (Jpeg)

Can deer protectors prevent blister rust?

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• Deer protector cartoon image (Jpeg)

Snapshots from Space

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• EOSD web site (for more information)
• EOSD map of Canada (Jpeg)

Counting is an egg-sact science

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• Forest Pest Leaflet : Western Blackheaded Budworm
• Western Blackheaded Budworm (JPG)

Of all the Gall...

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• Forest Pest Leaflet : Jumping Gall Wasp
• Gall Wasp photo (JPG)

Pyrotechnics on purpose . . .

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• "The effects of prescribed burning on mountain pine beetle in lodgepole pine"
• Tweedsmuir Park "prescribed burn" (JPG)
• Pyrotechnics in Action (JPG)

Thorny but important...

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• Montane Alternative Silvicultural Systems (MASS) web site
• MASS logo (JPG)
• Aerial view of MASS sites (JPG)

Untreated wood provides pathway for pests...

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• Packing material (JPG)
• Pest (JPG)

Death by Armillaria increases after selective cutting

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• Selective Cutting Image 1 (JPG)
• Selective Cutting Image 2 (JPG)
• Selective Cutting Image 3 (JPG)

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