ELMFIELD, N.S. — On March 23, I attended the Friends of Redtail Society's annual general meeting at the newly renovated Elmfield Community Center in Pictou West. I am a member and a former director.
He showed us that things can be done to create a more healed environment. Discussion ensued about the health of Nova Scotia's forests, which Bob deemed to be abysmal due to the un-arrested practice of clear-cutting. Further discussion ensued about the importance of the forest in sequestering carbon, especially large trees, and also about the real or perceived danger of downed trees in fueling forest fires.
We heard that hardwoods are much more resistant to fire and that clear-cutting perpetuates the growth of a kind of forest that burns easily. Wholesale clear-cutting of woodlots pushes the problem further down the road, removes valuable phosphates from the soil and, of course, diminishes carbon sequestering.
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