Shauna Doll completed her Master’s degree at Dalhousie and has worked in forest conservation in Nova Scotia in the context of climate change. She is the Director on the Forest Conservation Project. You can find her in the lab, or in the forests of the Gulf Islands. More about Shauna.
Exploring the co-benefits of collaborative, landscape-scale approaches to managing fire in coastal forests of southern BC.
In November 2023, Raincoast hosted the second annual Big Tree Summit to gather those interested in protecting big trees and old forests across British Columbia. Together, we aim to advance conservation outcomes for these increasingly rare and threatened ecologies.
Everybody plays a part in learning the lessons.
Islands in the Salish Sea are experiencing a worsening seasonal water deficit.
Introducing a new practitioner’s report focused on reducing fire risk by increasing ecological integrity.
When property prices are too high to protect these places via purchase, can we count on public policy tools to safeguard CDF forests from further degradation?
Forest Conservation Program Director Shauna Doll made a delegation to Islands Trust Council urging them to incorporate biodiversity protection.
Together this community of practice has been developing new approaches to manage growing concerns around the degraded condition of BC’s forests.
Raincoast scientists have been engaging in work related to conservation action on the Gulf Islands for many years.
Raincoast’s Big Tree Project map will help connect BC-based community scientists with the big tree monitoring project nearest them.
As previous installments of the Field Files series have established, since settler arrival in the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zone, forests have been extensively harvested. The consequence of this widespread, industrial-scale logging is predominantly second growth forests that are not only lacking in biodiversity and natural complexity, but also at a higher risk of burning in…
Raincoast established the Forest Conservation Program (formerly known as the Gulf Islands Forest Project) in 2019 with the intention of exploring pathways to strengthen protection of the rare and threatened habitats characteristic to the Coastal Douglas-fir (CDF) zone, particularly on the Gulf Islands. However, land in this region is disproportionately under private ownership, unlike the…