Insect Infestation In Canada

Forestry: Insect Infestation
Insect infestation is a big problem in Canada. The forestry industry directly provides jobs for over 300 000 Canadian residents and even more in indirect jobs such as making paper (“Canadian Geography,” 2006, p. 142). The loss of millions of hectares of forest to insect infestation would mean that many people would be left jobless. For instance, in British Columbia, the mountain pine beetle has already destroyed approximately 620 million cubic meters of pine trees of most species (“Environment,” 2009, p. 1). All Canadians should face the growing problem of the insect infestation’s effect on the vast Canadian forests.
A 2013 study showed that the forestry industry produced 19.8 billion dollars or 1.25% that contributed to Canada’s gross domestic product (GDP) (“Forestry industry by the numbers,” 2014, p. 1). Over time, Canada lost hundreds of millions of dollars to prevention efforts, revenue loss and environmental migration efforts to insects (“Economic impacts,” 2014, p. 1). Insects that infest the commercially available trees can greatly hurt Canada’s economy because forestry is one of the main contributors to Canada’s economy. Canada’s government should invest much more money than they

1). There are many serious outbreaks of the following species of bugs; the Ambermarked birch leafminer, Asian longhorned beetle, Birch leafminer, Brown spruce longhorn beetle, Butternut canker, Emerald ash borer, Forest tent caterpillar, Mountain pine beetle, Spruce budworm, Western spruce budworm (“Insects and diseases,” 2014, p.1). One solution to solve this problem is to vaccinate the trees that the alien species feed on or breed in so they all die out and to partially vaccinate the native species so they do not completely die out because they are part of the natural