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Map Apps
Thanks to an evolving market for Android and iOS applications, forest management is becoming easier and more affordable for woodlot owners who want to produce their own cruises, plans and maps. If you have an Android or Apple tablet and are looking for another excuse to roam your woodlot try out the following applications: GIS Kit [...]
The Price of Participation
Engage – to occupy the attention or efforts of (a person or persons): He engaged her in conversation. Participate – to take or have a part or share, as with others; partake; share (usually followed by in ): To participate in profits. — Dictionary.com With the post-Woodbridge focus on facilitating access to private timber, woodlot [...]
A Tree Grows in West New York
Hundreds of people are visiting a single tree in West New York, New Jersey. Far from being a spectacular botanical event, unlike the blooming of the corpse flower in Honolulu last May, there is almost nothing special about this malnourished, drought stricken and bark damaged specimen. Well almost nothing except that a deep gouge in its trunk [...]
Welcome Back Hotter
As much of North America swelters through another record breaking heatwave summer, climate change is literally becoming the hottest topic in forestry. The cumulative effects of releasing carbon into the atmosphere from conventional and unconventional non-renewable sources is well documented. Copious research is readily available to anyone with patience to analyze statistics. Currently at 395 ppm [...]
No Way to Norways
In Canada where the maple leaf has come to symbolize federation, the Norway Maple (Acer platanoides) with its distinctive wide blade is stealthily crowding out native candidates for the honour. Norways have been in North America since the 1700`s however it was not until they became a favoured street planting to replace dying elms that the trouble started. Norways scatter seed [...]
The Path We Share
It has been almost a month since The Path We Share: A Natural Resources Strategy for Nova Scotia 2011–2020 was released. The event was for many an anticlimactic ending to over three years of intense debate. Little to no public response at this time can be interpreted as a good thing. There were certainly no [...]
Guide to Indian Path Common
Published this spring by the Indian Path Common Land Committee, Indian Path Common: Its Flora, Fauna & History is a testament to community based forest management. Located in Indian Path, Lunenburg County, the Common’s main trail can be accessed off Fish Peddler Road a minute walk from the Lunenburg Rod and Gun Club. View Map
Making an Eco Difference. Really?
Extra! Extra! Read all about it. “Bagasse, the fibre waste from processed sugarcane, helps save trees and is great for the environment!” O.K. it was merely the promotional literature printed on notebooks offered for sale by a large office retail chain with the intention, like a tabloid headline, to sell paper not facts. Technically speaking [...]
A Call to Farms
My wife Mary Jane, a fellow librarian, recently gave me a well used 1903 manual titled Scribner’s Lumber & Log Book that she purchased at a Mahone Bay flea market. The 1882 edition is available online. This small volume, which has become one of my favourites in a growing collection of historical reference books, is not from the famous [...]
Independence Day in Vermont
As fortune would have it I was in Vermont on July 4th with my family this year as part of our summer vacation. Apart from watching a small town parade and doing some sight seeing in the blistering heat, I could not help but notice the attention property owners lavish on their woodlands. Given the tall, high quality timber growing in [...]
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