Home

Subscribe


Rural Delivery

Atlantic Forestry

Atlantic Beef

Horse & Pony

Employment Opportunities

Books

Links

Advertising

Buy Local Beef: a directory

2009 Green Pages
Free Listing Form


2008 Farm Book
Free Listing Form

POST
CLASSIFIEDS

SUBMIT EVENTS & NEWS

HORSE & PONY SURVEY

 

Atlantic Forestry, May 2008



Full articles below plus sneak peaks!

Tried, tested, and proven

by George Fullerton
Pennfield Logging is a bit of a misleading name for a machine and fabrication shop that currently views the Charlotte County aquaculture industry as its primary clientele. Brothers Gilles and Pierre Levesque operate the machine shop business, which, as often as not, has a mechanical logging harvester or other forestry or construction equipment on the. . .


Industrial revolution

by David Lindsay
How do you distinguish the visionaries from the hucksters? Historically, it has sometimes been hard to draw the line. So it was at World Bioenergy 2008, held May 27-29 in Jönköping, Sweden.
The first World Bioenergy event was held in 2004 at the same venue: the massive Elmia conference facility in this inconspicuous city on Lake Vättern ­ headquarters of. . .



World chaos creates local advantages

by David Palmer
A "paradigm shift," that's what historians may well record next to the year 2008. In layman's terms, a paradigm shift is a big change or transformation that affects our perception of the world and the way we do things. It can be a national or international shift, and could have dramatic effects ­ positive or negative ­ on the way we live our lives today and in the future. After oil sailed past the psychological barrier. . .


SAR marches on
Rare book would save species

Species At Risk has an interesting acronym. It reminds us of a mysterious and deadly disease that broke out a few years ago striking fear across Canada. But while the SARS infection ran its course to become little more than a footnote in history, SAR, the stuff of disappearing wildlife, marches on.
For this reason a little spiral-bound book all about Nova Scotia's most. . .


Learning can be fun!
by David Patriquin
Thanks to everyone involved, New Brunswick's 2008 Envirothon competition was a great success this year. Envirothon is an environmental awareness competition that ranges throughout North America, involving provinces and states. Every year each province and state has its own competition to determine which teams will attend the North American championship competition. Envirothon N.B. is a bilingual. . .


Uneven-aged management proves popular
Outreach Project workshops well attended

Three of five workshops across Nova Scotia were "sold out" last month as woodlot owners gathered in community halls to learn about Category 7 uneven-aged management treatments considered for funding by Nova Scotia's Association for Sustainable Forestry (ASF).
The workshops, followed by woodlot tours, were organized by a tag team representing the Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association (NSWOOA) and Picea Forestry. . .


The forest beneath the trees
A look at non-timber forest products

by Sid Watts
Non-timber forest products are slowly but surely gaining some recognition in Atlantic Canada as an opportunity to use more than just timber from our woodland. Often referred to as NTFPs, and occasionally as specialty forest products, they have a role to play in supplementing income in rural Atlantic Canada.
What are NTFPs? In a nutshell, they are any product that comes from the forest of either. . .


Promoting goods from our Atlantic woods
Representatives from the four Atlantic provinces and the state of Maine have been working on producing a non-timber forest product (NTFP) directory called, From Our Atlantic Woods.
NTFPs cover the less conventional products from the woods and include fiddleheads, wild mushrooms, maple syrup products, bentwood. . .


DEMO International 2008 takes shape
Forestry industry showcase first time east of Quebec

"What are they building, wilderness cottage lots?"
It's a reasonable guess to explain the roads and clearings deep in the woods east of Halifax's Stanfield International Airport. Seen from the air there would seem no better explanation.
Reasonable but wrong. In fact, the winding loop of fresh gravel road punctuated by small openings in the mixed-wood canopy is the site of DEMO. . .


Alternatives toward better forestry
Supporting sustainable management in New Brunswick

by George Fullerton
Industrial-scale clearcut harvesting continues to draw a negative reaction. In addition to a number of harmful environmental consequences associated with intensive clearcuts, society is increasingly concerned about resource sustainability and the adverse economic impact for rural communities.
In 2004 a group of woodlot owners in New Brunswick's northwest launched a campaign to encourage the government to provide support for sustainable. . .


Nova Scotians have spoken ­ now what?
Voluntary Planning report on Natural Resources not just a numbers game

by David Lindsay
This spring Nova Scotians had ample opportunity to speak publicly about the future of the province's natural resources, given the option of attending meetings held in 26 communities between May 12 and June 12. But submissions were still being accepted ­ by post, telephone, fax, or email ­ until July 31.
The arm's-length provincial agency called Voluntary Planning, tasked. . .


In peril
The degradation of Nova Scotia's Forests

"Our forest industries are in danger. . . We're overcutting, seriously overcutting. We're clearcutting on steep hillsides that cause erosion. . . You get a heavy rain in the spring, it's like flushing a toilet, and then in the summer there's not enough water, the salmon get sunburned. . . In the past 10 years, the Crown lands have been raped, and the Crown lands should. . .






SUBSCRIBE NOW TO ATLANTIC FORESTRY



BACK

Copyright 2007 DvL Publishing Inc.

Rural Delivery | Atlantic Beef | Atlantic Forestry | Atlantic Horse & Pony