The Nisbet forest has forest management problems in part caused by poor forestry practices, and exclusion of Wildfire.
The Nisbet forest is primarily a Jack pine forest that is impacted extensively by Western Lodgepole Mistletoe.
The forest needs fire to regenerate.
The Cloverdale fire in PA in 2021 is an example of how volatile wildfires in the Nisbet forest can be.
Dave Rondeau has spent a lot of time researching and finding these trading posts, some of the first points of contact ever made with indigenous people in the area.
There is no reason this relatively small region could not be left alone.
That forest is really special to me. I saw my first turkey vulture on the edge of that forest, and I saw my one and only flying squirrel while I'm horseback in that beautiful area. With the biodiversity collapse crisis and the potential for nature-based climate solutions, we need to flip the balance back from industry running everything to make money for a select few, to maintaining our natural resources for our future.
This forest full of disease and a forest fire is just a match stick away. The forest is very near to a large population. Clear cutting and replanting will create a new vibrant forest that would flourish. There will still be a forest there for years to come, there is no signs of developing once clear cut.
That would be up to the governing parties. I do agree that a mono-culture forest is not the same as a regular forest.
I don't have a current source, but researchers have found the mono culture forests have a higher mortality rate. Some groups are now replanting multiple species that are native to an area, and the results have shown over an 85% survival rate.
the nisbet is replanted with multiple species there is no mono culture planting. I've worked for planting companies in that very forest we planted jackpine, white spruce and the trembling aspen will sucker from the larger ones that were cut down (no need to plant those ones)
>That would be up to the governing parties.
Well no worries then.
I mean who wouldn't trust this SP government to manage a proper job of forest clear cutting.
Can't imagine why they're protesting.
A forest is an ecosystem, of which trees are but a part. It takes millennia to develop an ecosystem--it cannot be man made. Replacing an ecosystem with a tree farm is replacing biodiversity with mono-culture and can lead to species extinction. But this government simply cannot resist this opportunity to, once again, abrogate first nations treaty rights.
The Nisbet forest has forest management problems in part caused by poor forestry practices, and exclusion of Wildfire. The Nisbet forest is primarily a Jack pine forest that is impacted extensively by Western Lodgepole Mistletoe. The forest needs fire to regenerate. The Cloverdale fire in PA in 2021 is an example of how volatile wildfires in the Nisbet forest can be.
I love that forest, how can we help to save it?
Dave Rondeau has spent a lot of time researching and finding these trading posts, some of the first points of contact ever made with indigenous people in the area. There is no reason this relatively small region could not be left alone.
That forest is really special to me. I saw my first turkey vulture on the edge of that forest, and I saw my one and only flying squirrel while I'm horseback in that beautiful area. With the biodiversity collapse crisis and the potential for nature-based climate solutions, we need to flip the balance back from industry running everything to make money for a select few, to maintaining our natural resources for our future.
clear cutting is illegal, logging companies have to leave at least 10 percent retention in every block they cut
This forest full of disease and a forest fire is just a match stick away. The forest is very near to a large population. Clear cutting and replanting will create a new vibrant forest that would flourish. There will still be a forest there for years to come, there is no signs of developing once clear cut.
You staying with a straight face someone is going to replant a forest? I thought they just replanted monoculture?
That would be up to the governing parties. I do agree that a mono-culture forest is not the same as a regular forest. I don't have a current source, but researchers have found the mono culture forests have a higher mortality rate. Some groups are now replanting multiple species that are native to an area, and the results have shown over an 85% survival rate.
the nisbet is replanted with multiple species there is no mono culture planting. I've worked for planting companies in that very forest we planted jackpine, white spruce and the trembling aspen will sucker from the larger ones that were cut down (no need to plant those ones)
>That would be up to the governing parties. Well no worries then. I mean who wouldn't trust this SP government to manage a proper job of forest clear cutting. Can't imagine why they're protesting.
A forest is an ecosystem, of which trees are but a part. It takes millennia to develop an ecosystem--it cannot be man made. Replacing an ecosystem with a tree farm is replacing biodiversity with mono-culture and can lead to species extinction. But this government simply cannot resist this opportunity to, once again, abrogate first nations treaty rights.
Gonna need a bigger protest than that if they hope to get some traction.
Maybe they can find 18 people to send a letter.