Forestry generates large amounts of data, and making sense of it is key to informed decisions. Learn how to unlock your data!

Building the Future: Embracing Panelized, Modular and Mass Timber Innovations

In this webinar, registered professional forester and forest ecologist Peter Neily examines how white spruce behaves across the Wabanaki–Acadian forest region, where it can function as a pioneer, mid-successional or late-successional species depending on site conditions.

The Forestry Sector Council’s annual Timber Queens Forestry Conference for Women will be in Halifax, NS from December 3-4. Stay tuned for registration and programming information!

Drones are becoming an essential tool in forestry, offering new ways to monitor operations, assess forest health, and collect critical data.

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Learn about QGIS, a powerful open-source platform, its core features, including tools like Spatial Analyst, and how they can be applied.

This conference aims to bring together experts from industry, government, and academia to help educate and inform woodlot owners, land stewards, and the public on the risks of wildfire, and strategies for prevention and mitigation in relation to woodlot management.

For the Global Bluenosers who returned Home.

Join and share your insights at the Fall 2025 edition of the Symposium on Growing Exports in Nova Scotia, which will take place on October 15, 2025, from 9:00 am to 2:30 pm, at Sobeys Inspiration Hub (SH212), Arthur L. Irving Entrepreneurship Centre, SMU.

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Register now for one of the biggest draws of the WPAC annual event: the tour. This time it’s the day before the conference, when you’ll learn more about the people, facilities, and communities behind the sector. Depart from Halifax Marriott Harbourfront Hotel around 8:30 am and enjoy a scenic drive to Hardwood Lands, where you will see the Shaw Renewables pellet plant.

Gain hands-on experience with ecological forestry practices.

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Join us for a delicious breakfast, beautiful plants, and community fun.  

Nova Scotia is home to a wealth of forestry data—yet much of it remains underutilized. Join Greenspring Bioinnovation Hub for an insightful one-hour webinar with Kari Easthouse, a digital forestry consultant, who recently completed a comprehensive review of Nova Scotia’s existing forestry datasets.

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Join us February 3rd - 4th for the Forest Nova Scotia 2025 AGM! This will be a two-day experience filled with networking, learning, and discussing important topics related to the forestry industry in Nova Scotia.

Hands-on opportunity backed by deep theoretical explanation over all the construction phases of CLT and glulam buildings.