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Canadian wildfires are choking American cities. Here's what to know 500+ out-of-control fires in Canada are sending smoke across the border, creating hazardous air quality from Chicago to New York.

"Smoke knows no political boundaries — and neither does fire," says #UBCForestry Professor and Forest Ecologist Dr. Lori Daniels 🔥

The smoke from large wildfires in Canada is drifting southwards to American cities, impacting the air quality in the US.

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Federal forest report obscures logging’s impact on wildlife and climate, conservation groups say Government should focus on the quality of Canada’s forests, not just the quantity, advocates say

Natural Resources Canada released its annual report called the State of Canada’s Forests.🌳

#UBCForestry Lecturer and MIF Coordinator Peter Wood and Professor Emeritus Gary Bull share their thoughts with @theglobeandmail.com

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Recognizing Community-Driven Collaboration: PRE Fund Awards UBC Forestry wishes to congratulate Cissy Zhang on being awarded UBC's Spring 2025 Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) Fund!

Congratulations, Cissy Zhang, a MSc student in the Department of Forest Resources Management, on being awarded UBC’s Spring 2025 Partnership Recognition and Exploration (PRE) Fund! 🏆

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NEW PAPER 📣 Challenges in teaching silviculture in Canada: the path forward

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✍️: Wotherspoon (@dr-spoon.bsky.social), Moreau, Morin-Bernard, Achim (@alexisachim.bsky.social), Coops, Villemaire-Côté, Irwin & Hagerman

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From tree cover to green roofs, how are cities fighting extreme heat? - National | Globalnews.ca Studies have shown cities can see higher temperatures during heat waves compared with rural areas, but cities are taking steps to try to reduce that impact.

Vancouver recently increased its urban forest strategy to aim for 30% tree coverage by 2050.🌳

#UBCForestry Master of Urban Forestry Leadership Program Director, Sara Barron, explains that "trees take time to grow, but they can still benefit cities in the long term,"🌱

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Clear-cutting linked to 18-fold rise in extreme floods, UBC study finds - UBC News New research finds long-term impacts on flood size and frequency decades after trees are removed

Clear-cutting can make severe floods 18 times more frequent!

#UBCForestry Professor Younes Alila and PhD student Henry Pham were a part of a research team analyzing two adjacent watersheds on how clearcutting exacerbates flooding.💧

🔗 Read: news.ubc.ca/2025/07/clea...

The 'why' of wildfires There are 72 countries in the world whose landmass is smaller than the amount of hectares of forest that have burned across Canada this year — and wildfire season isn't over yet.

The provincial government estimates that almost a third of forests in BC's northeast could burn by the end of the year.🔥

#UBCForestry Professor @loridanielsubc.bsky.social says, "the area has been in a multi-year drought lasting six or seven years now."

🔗 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/o...

Why Canada’s forests are more vulnerable to wildfires than ever | Watch News Videos Online Watch Why Canada’s forests are more vulnerable to wildfires than ever Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca

#UBCForestry's Dr. @loridanielsubc.bsky.social spoke to Global News about the current state of wildfires in Canada. The interview focuses on the greatest causes of the wildfires, forest management and possible mitigation strategies. 🔥

🔗 Watch: globalnews.ca/video/112864...

Job post: CERC in Natural Resources Governance Job Post: UBC Forestry is recruiting a leading researcher in Natural Resources Governance for a Canada Excellence Research Chair nomination.

#UBCForestry is hiring a researcher in Natural Resources Governance who is eligible for nomination for a Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC).

Learn more about the position and apply here: forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...

We're Living in the Age of Fire. It Will Only Get Worse Canada's megafires are a sign of what's to come with out of control climate change.

@forestry.ubc.ca prof Lori Daniels matched fire scars on tree rings with Indigenous oral history, finding between 65% and 85% of the trees that we see in the B.C. forest today came in when Indigenous fire stewardship stopped, via TIME:

Welcome to the #UBCForestry family! We're thrilled to have you!🌲

📢 I am delighted to share that I started a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Forestry & Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia. I feel incredibly fortunate to grow my research and form new relationships in beautiful BC and beyond!
🌲💡🌊 🌎 @forestry.ubc.ca

How to cool communities in the face of rising heat - UBC News UBC experts Drs Rachel H. White, Lorien Nesbitt and Sara Barron explain how smarter design and nature-based solutions can keep Canadians cool, safe and healthy.

The intensity and frequency of heat waves continue to increase in Canada. ☀️ #UBCForestry's Dr. Lorien Nesbitt and Dr. Sara Barron share their expertise on how urban planning can be revaluated to support communities during these times better.

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NEW PAPER 📣 Estimating 3D individual tree crown growth using multi-temporal #LiDAR

#OpenAccess🔓 doi.org/10.1080/2150704X.2025.2511196
✍️ James McGlade (@jamesmcglade.bsky.social) & Nicholas Coops
📓in @tandfresearch.bsky.social

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I simply stood on the shoulders of giants. I'm incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be doing what I love. I could not have asked for a better supervisor @sallyaitken.bsky.social, lab mates, faculty @forestry.ubc.ca, and university! This journey has been amazing! Thank you, Sally!

More conferences should have walking tours! We enjoyed stretching our legs at UBC farm yesterday between great talks and posters at the international cereal rusts and powdery mildew conference @forestry.ubc.ca

Dr. Younes Alila (@forestry.ubc.ca‬) investigates the upstream impacts of clear-cut #logging in the Kettle River watershed in the new film Trouble in the Headwaters, presented by @thenarwhal.ca‬

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Melissa speaking about the health benefits of nature and nature prescribing at Forest Therapy Hub's Summer School at UBC, Vancouver

View of Canada Place, Stanley Park and the North Shore Mountains from the Top of Vancouver Revolving Restaurant

Melissa with fellow Forest Therapy Hub Summer School speakers Dr. Nevin Harper, Alex Gesse (Executive Director) and Dr. Kathleen Wolf after their morning lectures at the UBC Department of Forestry

Got to do my favourite thing again yesterday: spread the word about the health benefits of nature prescribing + #PaRx!
Loved spending time speaking, connecting and taking in spectacular dining views with international forest therapy colleagues + trainees @forestry.ubc.ca.
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Took a quick break from field season to attend my PhD graduation @forestry.ubc.ca. Many thanks to all those who supported me on this journey!

How the summer solstice may be the cue for plants to brace for fall The discovery that plants start closing up this early in the year could upend expectations about how they will respond to global warming

#UBCForestry's Elizabeth Wolkovich highlights the importance of the summer solstice in shaping plant growth strategies.

The research shows that although warmer temperatures result in longer growing seasons, many species remain constrained by the early seasonal cues they rely on🌲

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Remember all those Stanley Park coyote attacks? Blame the pandemic, says researcher UBC research reveals a correlation between pandemic restrictions and unprecedented coyote attacks in Stanley Park in 2020-21. Read more.

#UBCForestry Associate Professor Sarah Benson-Amram shares that by monitoring and understanding coyote behaviour, “we want to improve outcomes for people, their pets and for coyotes,”👥

🔗 Read via @vancouversun.bsky.social: vancouversun.com/news/stanley...

Smoke knows no boundaries: What Canada's fires mean for the U.S. in the future More than 200 wildfires are raging across Canada, sending a thick blanket of choking smoke through the U.S. Midwest. Experts says climate change means U.S. residents better get used to it.

The impact of wildfires and smoke in Canada can be felt southward in the United States.🔥

#UBCForestry Professor Dr. @loridanielsubc.bsky.social discusses how the start of fire season can have cross-border effects on ecosystems and communities.

🔗 Read via @npr.org: www.npr.org/2025/06/06/n...

NEW PAPER 📣 Estimation of #ForestStructure & fuel change across #MountainPineBeetle attacked forests using mobile- & RPAS-based #lidar

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✍️ Gerbrecht (@evangerbs.bsky.social), Coops, Carroll, Bater & Buechner

Highlights in 🧵 @forestry.ubc.ca #remotesensing

Malcolm Knapp Research Forest Scavenger Hunt | UBC Forestry Embark on an exploratory, fact-finding mission through UBC’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest and enter for a chance to win exciting prizes.

The adventure begins!🌲

From June 7-30, visit the #UBCForestry Malcolm Knapp Research Forest for a Scavenger Hunt to win great prizes!🔎🗺️

Follow the Explorer map to various locations to answer questions and learn about the forest along the way.🌱

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#UBCForestry students Halle Smith, Rosalia Jaffray, and Shaojie Huang recently visited the BC Legislative Assembly to discuss the future of BC’s forests with the Minister of Forests, Ravi Parmar.

Thank you to our students and the minister for continuing these important conversations!🌲👏

“The atmosphere doesn’t differentiate between international borders."

Prof Lori Daniels (@forestry.ubc.ca‬) discusses the plumes of smoke from more than 200 Canadian wildfires that have traveled across North America.

via @washingtonpost.com‬ buff.ly/8047WYL

Forest and Conservation Sciences Technician Staff - Union Job Category CUPE 116 Job Profile CUPE 116 Salaried - Research Assistant /Technician 2 Job Title Forest and Conservation Sciences Technician Department Research | Myers-Smith Lab | Depar...

We’re hiring a Research Technician 2 in the Dept of #ForestConservationSciences at @forestry.ubc.ca!! 📣📣

The applicant will work with Isla Myers-Smith #TeamShrub, the Cardinal-McTeague lab, and some department services. Posted until August 10th 2025

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Malcolm Knapp Research Forest Scavenger Hunt | UBC Forestry Embark on an exploratory, fact-finding mission through UBC’s Malcolm Knapp Research Forest and enter for a chance to win exciting prizes.

Looking for a fun forest thing to do in the #Vancouver area?

Our @forestry.ubc.ca Malcolm Knapp Research Forest is having a Scavenger Hunt this month.

Check it out:

#MetroVancouver #Forest #ForestFun

After 3 years of trying to get into a program, I can finally say that I'll be starting a PhD at @forestry.ubc.ca this September! It'll be hard to leave the Arctic behind (although I'll always stay connected in some way), but I'm so excited to be working within my home province of BC.

'This is classic climate change': Sask. faces worst wildfire season in decades - The Weather Network There have been 207 wildfires this year as of Friday — 40 more than the same period last year

@loridanielsubc.bsky.social, professor and researcher at the @forestry.ubc.ca, said the emergency #wildfire situation in the province is the result of an emergency global #climate situation. @usask.bsky.social #SKwx #SKfires www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat...