Branchlines

Latest Issue - Spring 2022

We are pleased to invite you to explore our new Branchlines publication. Courtesy of the UBC Faculty of Forestry, Alumni and Development Engagement Office, the revamped look, feel and direction was shaped by valuable feedback from our alumni community. In this issue you will find: an in-depth feature story on the recent fires and floods climate catastrophes; celebrate the 2022 Alumni Builder Award recipient, Arthur Tsai; pay tribute to Prof. Peter Marshall; and enjoy a Q&A with Garry Merkel. To read more, download the full issue.

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Wildfire in the Era of COVID-19

The term “new normal” is taking on yet another new meaning for us in British Columbia. Wildfires defined 2017 and 2018, when intense, fast-moving and uncontrollable fires burned a record-breaking 2.5 million hectares of grasslands and forests. Those fires emitted two and three times the normal annual carbon dioxide emissions for our entire province and…

Protecting Canadian Forests Through Applied Biosurveillance Research

Invasive alien forest species represent a significant threat to Canada’s forests. One consequence of the expansion of global trade and transportation networks is a sharp increase in the number of foreign invasive insects and pathogens that are intercepted or introduced to our shores. Once they arrive, these invasive species are hard to eliminate or contain,…

Fusing Satellite Images to Detect Fire Patterns

The 2017 fire season burned massive swaths of forest across British Columbia and the rest of the Pacific Northwest. It was a historic fire year, with more forest burned than any other year on record. But, that record only lasted a single year: in 2018, an even greater area of BC’s forest burned. In order…

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