CFS Researcher Wins Prestigious BioSciences Award

Fredericton – And the award goes to … Dr. Christopher Lucarotti! On September 27, at a snazzy reception at the Wu Conference Centre in Fredericton, Dr. Chris Lucarotti, Insect Pathologist, CFS, received the New Brunswick BioSciences Achievement Award for his outstanding research that led to the development and registration of the baculovirus, ABIETIVTM, used to control the balsam fir sawfly in Newfoundland.

Eleven sites selected for Forest Communities Program

Eleven sites have been chosen for the national Forest Communities Program, successor to the Model Forest Program which ends this year.

Beetle ID made easier

Two new products are making it easier for Albertans to identify mountain pine beetle attacked trees

The State of Canada's Forests 2007

The annual report provides a succinct overview of key forest-related priorities. It focuses on the innovative, collaborative and strategic work being undertaken by the federal, provincial and territorial governments to address issues of concern to forest communities, the forest industries and Canadians in general.

Is Canada's Forest a Carbon Sink or Source?

Forests store large amounts of carbon in the trees and soil. They accumulate more over time as they remove carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, from the air and store the carbon in living trees and other plants.