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Minga (right) engaged in conversation with soil scientist Elena Ponomarenko at the MTRI Old Forest Conference.
Minga O’Brien, interviewed by CBC Cape Breton for their Breakfast Biography series, said she realized what was so special about our wild lands when she went to Europe as an 18-year old and discovered so little of the forests and streams in the natural state to which we are so accustomed in Nova Scotia.
Minga, amongst many other activities, teaches in the forestry program at the NS Community College in Cape Breton. She is apparently the only certified “Tree Marker” in Nova Scotia. In the interview, Minga talks about what’s involved in Tree Marking and the use of it in Ontario. Continue reading