The Canadian Lynx is on Nova Scotia's endangered list.
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:
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#ClimateCrisis
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#StopClearcuttingNow
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#WorthMoreStanding
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#BanGlyphosate
Greenwashing Advisory:
Each of these phrases means "Clearcutting"
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Even-aged
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Variable retention
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Over-storey removal
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Salvage cut
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Shelterwood
Click and Listen . . . to a forest
Click and Listen . . . One Hour of Woodland Bird Song
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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
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Forests - Feedback loops: climate change
NEW to the Page
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
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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
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A Carbon Accumulation Strategy with Deep Roots
December, 2020
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Large Trees Dominate Carbon Storage
re: Forests East of Cascade Crest, US Pacific Northwest
November 5, 2020
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Can Carbon caches help us preserve a moderate climate?
Nov 13, 2020 - 20min video
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The secret power of old growth
October 22, 2020, Columbia Insight
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Environmentalist furious
Foresters frustrated Biodiversity Act still stalled
October 30, 2020, CBC Nova Scotia
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Letter to the EU in regards to Biofuel
2 pages: Dated Fall, 2020
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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
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Nova Scotia High Production Forestry notes
February, 2020
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High Production Forestry Fails to Account for Carbon Value
3 pages: Dated 2017, 2020
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Explainer: Nova Scotia's forest harvesting map tool
Video 4:12
April 10, 2019 - CBC
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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
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Clearcutting our losses
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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
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Clearcutting Canada's Boreal Forests
(much for U.S. toiletpaper companies)
releases carbon into the atmosphere.
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Some problems with clearcutting
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Ancient Forest Alliance
Working to protect BC's endangered old-growth forests and ensure a sustainable, second-growth forest industry.
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Nova Scotia Species-at-Risk
6 pages, colour photos, details
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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.
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Letter to the premier
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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)
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NS Gov't Details: Climate change impacts to forests
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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."