Fourteen students completed the first official tree marking course in Nova Scotia 20Jun2024

Posted on June 20, 2024 by NSmattersAdmin

Guest Post by Minga O’Brien

Tree marking is an integral step in partial harvesting systems geared towards managing for quality timber products, and healthy forest habitats.

Nova Scotia Tree Marking Course: Marking for Selection Harvest at Medway Community Forest.
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From June 4-7, 2024, it was my pleasure to be an instructor for a tree marking course offered by Nova Scotia Community College’s Centre of Forest Innovation. Accommodation and morning classes took place at NSCC’s College of Geographic Sciences in Lawrencetown, and field sites were situated on Crown lands licensed to the Medway Community Forest Co-op. There were 14 participants and 7 instructors, 2 of whom (Al Stinson-from the Canadian Institute of Forestry and Martin Streit – from Forests Ontario) traveled from Ontario to lead what many hope to be the first of many tree marking courses in Nova Scotia.
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Feedback sought on Wood Pellet Association of Canada’s Regional Risk Assessment for sourcing biomass from Nova Scotia’s harvestable forest land base 16Jun2024

Posted on June 16, 2024 by NSmattersAdmin

UPDATE: Received from Brenda Hopkin Jul 27, 2024 in response to an inquiry, re: when can we expect to be notified: “We are in the final stages of finishing the RRA. We are aiming for the middle of August & will post the end date in the notification.”

Please, all stakeholders, register and review this RRA (Regional Risk Assessment). A wide range of stakeholders is considered relevant.

One of the ways I attempt to keep up with News related to forests and forestry in Nova Scotia is by subscribing to a Google Alert, specifying “Forestry, Forests, Nova Scotia” as the topic.

Under my Alert this am:

Clicking on it takes one to https://biomassrra.ca/nova-scotia/
where I learned that the Wood Pellet Association of Canada has conducted a “Regional Risk Assessment” for Nova Scotia, and is seeking input from stakeholders. Continue reading →

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On the Northern Pulp Agreement with the Nova Scotia Government 9Jun2024

Posted on June 10, 2024 by NSmattersAdmin

Guest Post by Helga Guderley

The last thing that we need is a secretive multinational corporation milking provincial subsidies while taking the last of our standing forests.

It was the pollution of Boat Harbour that led to the closure of the NP Mill in Pictou and is still costing Nova Scotians and especially the people of Pictou Landing First Nation dearly. “Once bitten twice shy” should apply says Helga Guderley

On May 23, 2024 we learned that the government reached a tentative agreement with Paper Excellence, owners of Northern Pulp, settling the dispute over lost profits from the closure of the Pictou mill and Paper Excellence’s $450 Million lawsuit against the province.

Many aspects are included in this agreement: the potential relocation of the mill to Liverpool, the province assuming the cost of the pensions for former mill workers and guaranteeing a 14% profit for the new mill. The total costs of this agreement are far from clear. Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on June 4, 2024 by NSmattersAdmin

Old logging road

 

Welcome to Nova Scotia Forest Matters. 

We are just setting up. We will officially launch/publicize the website when we have some significant content and posts, perhaps circa June 20. In the meantime, the content and layout is in Draft form.

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