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
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    10 months ago

    Cutting down the forest because of forest fires is one of the most backwards ways of preserveing forests. Especially when they are going after the trees planted to replace the ones lost due to… (wait for it)… the largest forest fires the region has seen in how long?

    • benvoyon@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      You’ve never heard of fire lines to help fight forest fires in conjunction with planting trees for clear-cut forest? Forests regenerate themselves after disastrous fires. Planting trees is needed after clear- cutting a forest. But the worst is yet to come with climate changes.

      • HikingVet
        1·
        10 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.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 months ago

      You’re mixing things up because the article intentionally mixed things up in order to generate hate towards Quebec.