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What COVID-19 Has Taught Us About the Value of Nature

August 12, 2021–Julee Boan

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Recreation and Events

Silent Lake Provincial Park © John Hassell

This article was originally published in The Walleye. Like so many traumatic events in our shared history, everyone remembers exactly what they were doing in the days and hours before ...

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Where Industrial Logging Protects Wildlife, Workers and Indigenous Rights

January 27, 2021–Julee Boan

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Boreal Forest•Campaigns•Ecology•Habitat•Indigenous Relations•Protected Places•Stewardship and restoration

Canoes in Wolf Lake © Ryan Mariotti

It’s October 2017. I’m in Vancouver, British Colombia for Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) International’s General Assembly (GA). One forester colleague had warned me to get lots of sleep, drink water ...

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Province Puts Industrial Logging Interests Before Wildlife, Again – Blog

December 11, 2020–Julee Boan

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Boreal Forest•Land-use planning•Species at Risk

Boreal caribou © Troy B Thompson CC BY-NC-NC 2.0

When Ontario’s Endangered Species Act (ESA) was brought into force in 2007, the Ministry of Natural Resources granted a one-year exemption to the forestry industry on the premise that industry ...

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COVID-19 showed us that we care about toilet paper – a lot – but does it need to come directly from wildlife habitat? – Blog

September 8, 2020–Julee Boan

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Boreal Forest•Community Science•Habitat•Land-use planning

Bobcat © Chase Dekker CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

When the federal and provincial governments started to announce pandemic-related shutdowns in March, the first things that crossed my mind were the safety of my aging parents, and whether I could keep my job, work from ...

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Sharing Our Forests

August 28, 2020–Julee Boan

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Boreal Forest•Habitat•Land-use planning

Clearcut © iStock/shaunl

When the Government of Ontario announced the finalized Forest Sector Strategy last week, it begged the question – when a forestry strategy falls in the forest, does anybody hear? Despite ...

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