Globe and Mail - Construction of the Site C dam, will continue, dashing the hopes of environmentalists and some Indigenous communities that the new minority NDP government would stop construction.
ScienceDaily - Maps of the world's most important wilderness areas are now freely available online following a University of Queensland and Wildlife Conservation Society-led study.
Northwest Boreal Landscape Conservation Cooperative - Researchers analyzed satellite data and other lightning data sources to try to understand the 2014 and 2015 wildfire seasons.
EurekAlert - Researchers wanted to understand if and how changing climate over the last several decades affected post-fire tree regeneration, a key indicator of forest resilience.
Also In The News....
Vast Yukon wilderness protected in ruling for native tribes National Geographic - The Supreme Court of Canada's unanimous decision marks the end of a three-year legal battle between the Yukon government and a coalition of indigenous First Nations and environmental groups over the future of the Peel Watershed.
CBC - The U.S. Department of State has announced it will begin negotiations to modernize the decades-old Columbia River Treaty beginning in early 2018, a move Nelson B.C.'s mayor calls "promising."
Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Called the Protect Public Use of Public Lands Act, the bill moves to release five wilderness study areas managed by the U.S. Forest Service.
BBC - Golden eagles in North America may have the timing of their migration shifted out of step with a seasonal boom in food they need to raise their young, according to scientists.
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