{"id":24392,"date":"2019-09-23T09:17:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=24392"},"modified":"2019-09-23T09:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T13:17:07","slug":"national-forest-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/national-forest-week\/","title":{"rendered":"National Forest Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Morning-4733.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-24271\" src=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Morning-4733-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Morning-4733-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Morning-4733.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Today, John Yakabuski, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, issued the following statement to mark National Forest Week:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>&#8220;As we celebrate National Forest Week, it&#8217;s important to recognize Ontario&#8217;s rich forest heritage and the continued economic, social and environmental benefits forests provide to the people of this province.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Today, Ontario&#8217;s forest sector supports about 155,000 jobs in communities across our province, and generates over $16.6 billion in revenue. These numbers underline the fact that forests continue to play an important role in Ontario&#8217;s economy, especially in rural and northern Ontario.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Our government wants to encourage more innovation and create more jobs in this sector &#8211; jobs that secure the future of so many Ontarians. That&#8217;s why this fall we will be releasing Ontario&#8217;s new forest sector strategy &#8211; a plan that will help to unleash the potential of Ontario&#8217;s forest industry. The strategy identifies tangible steps that will create the right conditions for the industry to innovate and attract investment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Our province is recognized around the world for its sustainable forest management practices. Our foresters and forest industry partners are dedicated to following healthy and productive forest management techniques.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Ontario will continue to support a growing and thriving forest sector, while ensuring our forests are managed sustainably.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, John Yakabuski, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, issued the following statement to mark National Forest Week: &#8220;As we celebrate National Forest Week, it&#8217;s important to recognize Ontario&#8217;s rich &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-provincial"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 10:33:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24393,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24392\/revisions\/24393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}