Front page of the 2nd Natural Disturbance Regimes paper with abstract. Click on image for larger, readable version. Access full paper here
This ‘Priority Project’ appears to be completed, pretty well on schedule, but many issues remain to be addressed at the landscape level. Surely it is time to adopt a key recommendation of Prof Lahey in his recent Evaluation of Progress, namely to “adopt a more centralized and directional approach to the organization of work on implementation of the FPR and assign overall leadership of the process to a forester who is committed to ecological forestry who has the experience and knowledge to lead Nova Scotia’s embrace of an ecological paradigm”.
I try to keep on top of what’s coming out from NRR in relation to the ‘Lahey Recommendations‘, and check the NS Government’s Ecological Forestry page fairly regularly.
On Feb 2, 2022, I checked the page for any announcement of the second published paper expected from the Natural Disturbance Regime Project. There were no updates about it.
So I wrote Naomi Arron, Senior Strategist, Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry with whom I had correspondence with earlier about this project, and who had told me on Oct 13, 2020: “The department’s NDR project team is working towards submitting a scientific paper on the application of natural disturbance regimes to a journal for consideration and peer review in Spring 2021. Acceptance and the timing of publication will depend on the journal.” I asked her if there is any update on it. Continue reading →
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