Nova Scotia Stop Clearcutting resources, information

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

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

Greenwashing Advisory:
Each of these phrases means "Clearcutting"

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

Save our forests etc groups on facebook

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

Click and Listen . . . to a forest

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

More resources are on the home page

As Lumber Prices Surge, Hemp Blocks Get a Closer Look
Up to R70: fireproof, mold proof, pest proof and long-lasting compared to timber-framed homes
May 25, 2021
Hempbuild Magazine
Annapolis Valley environmentalists buy forest parcel to protect it
Getting it done: Nova Scotia activists raise $93,400
May 24, 2021
Saltwire
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."

"Crisis doesn't wait for philosophical debate"- Addie Campaigne

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