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Category Archives: Fire
Nova Scotia Forests of the Anthropocene: More Youthful and Slender; Winners and Losers; Sunnier Soils Ahead
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
Posted in clearcuts, Climate Change, Conservation, Fire, Natural History, Old Growth
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Margaret Miller on Glyphosate: I am glad she is talking to Chief Gloade
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
Posted in clearcuts, Climate Change, Conservation, Fire, herbicides, Mi'kmaq
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If ever we needed rain…
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
Posted in Climate Change, Fire, NSDNR
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Ecologist’s perspective on the Keji-area fires
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
“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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