Unfortunately, wood from Québec’s public forests has not been harvested according to the rules of the game, to which all other Canadian provinces have committed. For more than 25 years, the Québec ...

Quebec's boreal forest — twice the size of France — is a vast expanse of wilderness rich in biodiversity that can lock up huge amounts of climate-warming carbon dioxide. It is also an economic driver ...

The provincial government on Tuesday announced it had halted authorized logging operations along the Péribonka River in the Lac-Saint-Jean region, and that the area would be designated a protected ...

The Quebec government has cancelled a controversial plan to log forests along the Péribonka River, north of Lac Saint-Jean. But that doesn't mean the entire forest, much of it old-growth, will be ...

QUEBEC CITY — Quebec has announced an easing of measures recently adopted in reaction to forest fires and high flammability indexes. The government partially lifted a ban on forest access to public ...

Last month, the right-leaning populist government of Canada’s French-speaking province of Quebec finally scrapped a controversial forestry bill. Known as Bill 97, this proposed legislation was aimed ...

Measures proposed by Quebec's government to help protect its dwindling caribou herds won't make a difference in the short term, say biologists, who cite a lack of willpower to create protected areas ...

A Quebec boreal forest will see about 1.3 million acres – more than a third of its land – protected from logging, the provincial government and the Grand Council of the Crees announced Monday. The ...

OTTAWA (Feb. 2, 2000) — A strike by owner-operators in Quebec halted lumber shipments in the Gaspe and Saguenay-Lac St. Jean regions, La Presse newspaper reported. However, local agreements between ...

Deep in Quebec cottage country — the land of pristine lakes, towering trees and winding dirt roads — is a quintessential Canadian log home built of massive white pines with breathtaking views of the ...