Category Archives: Fire

Nova Scotia Forests of the Anthropocene: More Youthful and Slender; Winners and Losers; Sunnier Soils Ahead

Posted on October 2, 2016 by admin

Donna Crossland will talk on this topic at a meeting of the Blomidon Field Naturalists on Monday, October 17, 2016 at Acadia University. View details. I attended an earlier version of this presentation at the Nature Nova Scotia 2016 Conference … Continue reading →

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Margaret Miller on Glyphosate: I am glad she is talking to Chief Gloade

Posted on September 16, 2016 by admin

Margaret Miller, Nova Scotia’s Minister of Environment, was interviewed this a.m. about glyphosate spraying of forests on CBC’s Information Morning (Fri, Sep 16, 2016). She said glyphosate has been used on our forests for 30 years. It was re-evaluated by … Continue reading →

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If ever we needed rain…

Posted on September 14, 2016 by admin

It just rained intensively for about 20 minutes, then stopped. I wish it would last as a drizzle for 3+ days. We expect fires in the spring in Nova Scotia, but large fires have been rare in the fall. Nova … Continue reading →

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Ecologist’s perspective on the Keji-area fires

Posted on August 17, 2016 by admin

Hopefully the heavy rain over the last 24 hours has finally extinguished the fires in SW Nova Scotia. Donna Crossland, acting Ecologist for Parks Canada at Keji and on a team that has been fighting two of the fires, was … Continue reading →

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Forest Fire in Medway Communty Forest near Kejimkujik National Park

Posted on August 8, 2016 by admin

“The leader of a community co-operative that manages forest near Kejimkujik National Park says the forest fires burning since Thursday are a “tough hit,” but not unexpected…The part of the forest believed to have first caught fire had black spruce … Continue reading →

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