The Canadian Lynx is on Nova Scotia's endangered list.

Save our forests etc groups on facebook

• Annapolis Royal & Area - Environment & Ecology
• Blockade to Stop Clear-Cutting Mainland Moose Habitat!
• Fairy Creek Blockade (Vancouver Is, BC)
• Mi'kmaq Conservation Group
• Nova Scotia Species at Risk facebook group
• People for Ecological Forestry in Southwest Nova Scotia
• Save Little Harbour / Owl's Head from Becoming Golfcourses
• Save the Margaree Watershed
• South Shore Extinction Rebellion
• Stop Clearcutting Unama'ki (Cape Breton)
• Stop Spraying & Clear-Cutting Mi'kma'ki (Nova Scotia)
• The Eastern Shore Forest Watch Association
• The Healthy Forest Coalition
• Woods and Waters Nova Scotia

Hashtags - Please use them!
Hashtags are used on social media. By attaching # to a word or phrase, it becomes clickable. When users click on a hashtag, they're taken to a directory of the other posts housing that hashtag. Or, you can do a search on a specific hashtag via browser or social media. Here are a few of our favourites:

• #ClimateCrisis
• #StopClearcuttingNow
• #WorthMoreStanding
• #BanGlyphosate

Greenwashing Advisory:
Each of these phrases means "Clearcutting"

• Even-aged
• Variable retention
• Over-storey removal
• Salvage cut
• Shelterwood

Click and Listen . . . to a forest

Click and Listen . . . One Hour of Woodland Bird Song

More resources are on the home page

Exceptional videos on clearcutting in Nova Scotia

• Forest Nova Scotia & the 6 to 1 Fillmore Slam Dunk
  12:41min - April 2, 2021 - The Naturalist
• The Lies of Forest Nova Scotia
  24min - March 20, 2021 - The Naturalist
• Forest Nova Scotia & the Mystery of the Big Pockets
  13:21 min - March 29, 2021 - The Naturalist
• The Clearcuts of Kejimkujik National Park
  28min - September 15, 2020 - The Naturalist

Resources on Nova Scotia's Endangered Mainland Moose:

• Intentional Extirpation
  The Fight to Save the Nova Scotia Mainland Moose
  
  25:15 - January 1, 2021
  The Naturalist
• How the Govt of Nova Scotia Makes a Mockery of UNESCO
  
  21 pages: November 18, 2020
  Extinction Rebellion Nova Scotia
• Bob Bancroft on the Sad Plain Truth
  
  Nova Scotia's management of our Endangered Mainland Moose
  November 17, 2020
• Moose Country Blockade Info
  Since October 21, 2020
  Extinction Rebellion Blockade to protect Moose Country from Clearcutting
• Critically endangered moose poster
  Approximately 100 left
• Action Plan for Mainland Moose Recovery
  
  26 pages: Dated 2014 - 2018
  (Note: December, 2020 - numbers continue dropping)
  Nova Scotia (then) Department of Natural Resources
• Evaluating NS's legal obligations
  To protect / recover mainland moose & other species-at-risk
  11 pages: 2015
• Endangered Mainland Moose Special Management Practices
  2 pages: Dated 2012
  (Note: December, 2020 - from endangered to "Critically Endangered")
  Nova Scotia (then) Department of Natural Resources

Resources, articles on other forest-related concerns

• Report: Climate change disasters in British Columbia
  Likely to increase if industrial logging continues unchecked
  February 1, 2021
  CBC
• To Counter Climate Change, We Need to Stop Burning Things
  And how plastics tie-in to the fossil-fuel industry
  January 22, 2021
  The New Yorker
• Forests - Feedback loops: climate change
  
  The world's forests are responsible for removing 25% of all human carbon emissions from the atmosphere and cooling the planet. But that fraction is shrinking as the three major forests of the world - tropical, boreal, and temperate - succumb to the effects of climate feedback loops. Rising temperatures result in dryer conditions, more fires, more insects and fewer trees which raises temperatures and increases die back. Tipping forests from net carbon absorbers to net carbon emitters, heating rather than cooling the planet, is not only predicted, it will happen without determination and ingenuity.
  
  Today, 17% of global climate emmisions are the result of logging and burning pellets for energy. This is not sustainable. Our survival depends on protecting and expanding forests as well as preserving marshlands and grasslands.
  Video 14:10
• Colonial forestry is a threat to savannas and grasslands
  
  Large areas targeted for forest restoration in Africa, Asia and South America are covered by savanna and grassland. These open ecosystems are not degraded forest. They are ancient, productive and biodiverse and support millions of livelihoods. Savanna and grassland store up to one third of the world's carbon in its soils. They keep streams flowing, recharge groundwater, and provide grazing for livestock and wildlife.
  December 31, 2020
• A Carbon Accumulation Strategy with Deep Roots
  
  December, 2020
• Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage
  
  re: Forests East of Cascade Crest, US Pacific Northwest
  November 5, 2020
• Can Carbon caches help us preserve a moderate climate?
  Nov 13, 2020 - 20min video
• The secret power of old growth
  October 22, 2020, Columbia Insight
• Environmentalist furious
  
  Foresters frustrated Biodiversity Act still stalled
  October 30, 2020, CBC Nova Scotia
• Letter to the EU in regards to Biofuel
  2 pages: Dated Fall, 2020
• The Borealization of Acadia
  Due to logging and high-grading, natural reforestation of abandoned farmland, industrial clearcutting, anthropogenic fire, and boreal conifer plantations.
  July 2, 2020, Joan Baxter, Halifax Examiner
• Nova Scotia High Production Forestry notes
  February, 2020
• High Production Forestry Fails to Account for Carbon Value
  3 pages: Dated 2017, 2020
• Explainer: Nova Scotia's forest harvesting map tool
  Video 4:12
  April 10, 2019 - CBC
• Pulp Culture
  How Nova Scotia's Faustian bargain with the pulp industry may leave the sawmills in ruins
  History of industrial forestry in NS, and the documented decline of our forests' health.
  March 12, 2019 - Linda Pannozzo, Halifax Examiner
• Clearcutting our losses .
  The long history of Nova Scotia sacrificing its forests to big pulp, and why it has to end
  Includes video - "Flying Over a Clearcut"
  Joan Baxter, The Coast, October 5, 2017
• Clearcutting Canada's Boreal Forests
  
  (much for U.S. toiletpaper companies) releases carbon into the atmosphere.
• Some problems with clearcutting
• Ancient Forest Alliance
  Working to protect BC's endangered old-growth forests and ensure a sustainable, second-growth forest industry.
• Nova Scotia Species-at-Risk
  6 pages, colour photos, details
• Ancient Forest Alliance
  Video 2:48: Before & after ecocide
  This magnificent grove in the Caycuse Valley in Ditidaht territory, filmed by AFA's TJ Watt in early 2020 and then again in November, is now a sea of giant stumps after logging company Teal Jones clearcut over 33 hectares (more than 33 footballs fields) of highly endangered, productive old-growth forest with approval from the British Columbia NDP government.
• Letter to the premier
  Clearcutting; Owl's Head; Open Pen fish farming
• Carbon Sequestration
  
  Putting a Value on the Ecosystem Services Provided by Forests in Canada:
  Case Studies on Natural Capital and Conservation
  (Note: Acadian Forests are on Page 15)
• NS Gov't Details: Climate change impacts to forests
• Low-cost Natural Climate Solutions
  
  Analysis of Natural Climate Solutions (NCS): 20 conservation, restoration, and/or improved land management actions that increase carbon storage and/or avoid greenhouse gas emissions across global forests, wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural lands. NCS can provide over one-third of the cost-effective climate mitigation needed between now and 2030 to stabilize warming to below 2C. Alongside aggressive fossil fuel emissions reductions, NCS offer a powerful set of options for nations to deliver on the Paris Climate Agreement while improving soil productivity, cleaning our air and water, and maintaining biodiversity.
  PDF: 6 pages
• Climate Change Resiliency of Tree Species in the Fundy Biosphere Reserve Region

  Bad news for spruce - true love of Nova Scotia's Monoculture Tree Plantations. This from the 41-page report:
  "Several native species of trees appear that they will respond favorably to modeled climate change. Red Oak (Quercus rubra), black cherry (Prunus serotina), and ironwood (Ostrya virginiana) all exhibit a substantial increase in resiliency rankings in future time periods.

  "Other species such as red maple (Acer rubrum) and American beech (Fagus grandifolia) maintain high resiliency values in future time periods.

  "Alternately, species such as balsam fir (Abies balsamea), spruces (Picea spp.), jack pine (Pinus banksania), aspens (Populousspp.), and birches (Betula spp.), among others, illustrate rapid declines in resiliency rankings.

  "When averaged using equal weighting, the coniferous tree species exhibit an 8.6 point drop in resiliency ranking (Fig. 3) from the initial time period (1970-2000) to the century's end (2071-2100). The deciduous tree species, when averaged using equal weighting, illustrate a 2.9 point decline in resiliency ranking (Fig. 3) over the same time frame."