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Digby area foresters look to Finland to address issues in NS forestry

Posted on September 9, 2016 by admin

A small group of foresters from the Digby area including Harold Alexander “who has worked the woods in Digby County for more than 30 years, and four other will travel to Finland. The group will attempt to learn why that … Continue reading →

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Feeling the heat

Posted on September 7, 2016 by admin

UPDATE (Sep 9): The herbicide info meeting didn’t go so well. “A meeting intended to reassure people on the safety of glyphosate use on forests became heated at times, with many residents expressing their concerns.” Read more in the Truro … Continue reading →

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Evaluation of Glyphosate get’s political in N.S…

Posted on September 3, 2016 by admin

Not to be outpaced by N.B. (view previous post), now the science of the effects of glyphosate related to spraying forest land has entered the arena in Nova Scotia. “Nova Scotia’s top medical official says herbicide concerns are ill-founded” (CBC … Continue reading →

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Progress Report did not highlight key priorities in NSDNR Business Plan

Posted on September 2, 2016 by admin

It’s curious (and concerning) that the recently released Progress Report on the 2011-2020 Natural Resources Strategy and the related Press Release dwell on feel-good items such as the Community Forest, establishing a Forest Biodiversity Science Advisory Committee and a new … Continue reading →

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Oldest known Pine Tree fossils are in NS!

Posted on September 2, 2016 by admin
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Evaluation of Glyphosate get’s political in N.B…

Posted on September 2, 2016 by admin

“New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of health was working on a study of the controversial herbicide glyphosate when she was put on leave, CBC News has learned… The International Agency for Research on Cancer, a branch of the World Health … Continue reading →

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Bruce MacInnon on Clearcuts

Posted on September 2, 2016 by admin

CH award-winning editorial cartoonist Bruce MacInnon depicts the Premier giving Nova Scotia forests a haircut, this following the comments by Donna Crossland reported in the CH earlier in the week. View Cartoon. It wasn’t the first MacInnon editorial cartoon related … Continue reading →

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“No buyer for idle pellet plant in Middle Musquodoboit”

Posted on September 1, 2016 by admin

“Vancouver-based Viridis Energy owns the plant through its subsidiary, Scotia Atlantic Biomass Company Limited, and in July decided it was no longer worth operating…But the wood pellet industry as a whole is hurting. The long-anticipated European growth in demand for … Continue reading →

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Goal to reduce clear-cutting, whole-tree harvesting abandoned: author

Posted on August 31, 2016 by admin

So reads the title of a front page article in the Sept 1 print version of the CH following an interview with Donna Crossland. She was a co-author, with Bob Bancroft, of Restoring the Health of Nova Scotia’s Forests, a … Continue reading →

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Dubious claim: forest harvests in Nova Scotia are aligned with nature-based requirements

Posted on August 27, 2016 by admin

“We have now developed tools that ensure that all harvest treatments are aligned with the nature-based requirements of Nova Scotia’s lands.” – Statement under Goal 13 in the Five-year Progress Report on the 2011-2020 Natural Resources Strategy released Aug 16, … Continue reading →

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