MONTREAL – The federal government committed to planting two billion trees across the country to restore natural habitats and fight climate change, and now Quebec wants to harvest some of them. The provincial government is asking Ottawa to allow the local forestry industry to chop down trees in areas of the province hardest hit by last year’s forest fires. Ottawa has committed more than $3 billion to help provinces, territories and organizations plant a total of two billion trees by the end of 2031 as part of a national effort to reduce greenhouse gases. Quebec Minister of Natural Resources and […]
  • HikingVet@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Yes, fire breaks are a good tool to fight an active forest fire.

    Forests can use a little help after the largest fires in recorded history happened. Forests can’t regenerate properly when that happens.

    It sounds like they are taking a page out of the Irvings book.

    The trees haven’t even been given a chance to grow and people (the article doesn’t mention experts only industry and municipalities) want to cut them down. No where is there a mention of best practices.