[NatureNS] birch bark harvesting ad /"marker trees"

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  Just past Whycocomagh there is a little park on the right, the 
white=C2=A0birch there are all cut vertically with a powersaw. 
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  Culturally Modified Trees?
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On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 14:20:23 -0300 (ADT), Dusan Soudek  wrote:

         Tuma,
  =C2=A0=C2=A0 is there a tradition among the Mi'kmaq of=C2=A0 "marker tree=
s?"=C2=A0 Or 
a cultural memory of such trees? =C2=A0Such culturally modified trees had 
their trunks partially broken, usually at two locations, with the 
result that the trees remained alive but with a Z-shaped trunk. There 
are all kinds of references to "marker trees" on the internet, but they 
are almost all from the U.S....=C2=A0
  =C2=A0 Dusan Soudek

On July 5, 2013 at 1:32 PM Tuma Young  wrote:

       The Mi'kmaq have been harvesting birch bark for thousands of 
years for wide variety of uses and there is a method in which you use 
to properly peel the bark without killing the tree. =C2=A0In fact, I will 
be going out this weekend to harvest bark to make birchbark oil that is 
used by traditional Mi'kmaq healers. =C2=A0Generally speaking the tree 
suffers no damage and quickly heals. =C2=A0 Trees that have been harvested 
are =C2=A0called CMT's (Culturally Modified Trees) by researchers and this 
also applies to longer growing species. =C2=A0CMT's have recently become 
the subject of archaeological and anthropological research in BC. 
=C2=A0Locations where CMT's are found have formed the basis for protection 
against logging, clear cutting or biomass harvesting. =C2=A0

  On 2013-07-05, at 7:59 AM, nancy dowd < nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote:

            The following text of an ad on p.10 of Northern Woodlands 
magazine (Summer '13) caught my attention:

"It's white birch bark harvest season! We need to buy bark from 
thousands of trees in June and July!"

 From the contact email I tracked down the company website:
http://www.birchbarkvt.com/

I though stripping birch bark from trees would kill the tree. The 
website says nothing about the safety to the trees (or lack thereof) of 
this activity. 

Nancy

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<p><br><br>On Fri, 5 Jul 2013 14:20:23 -0300 (ADT), Dusan Soudek
&lt;soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca&gt; wrote:<br></p>
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<div>Tuma, </div>
<div>=C2=A0=C2=A0 is there a tradition among the Mi'kmaq of=C2=A0 "marker t=
rees?"=C2=A0 Or a
cultural memory of such trees? =C2=A0Such culturally modified trees had the=
ir trunks
partially broken, usually at two locations, with the result that the trees
remained alive but with a Z-shaped trunk. There are all kinds of references=
 to
"marker trees" on the internet, but they are almost all from the U.S....=C2=
=A0
</div>
<div>=C2=A0 Dusan Soudek </div>
<div><br>On July 5, 2013 at 1:32 PM Tuma Young &lt;tumayoung@me.com&gt; wro=
te:
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t: 10px;
margin-left: 0px;">The Mi'kmaq have been harvesting birch bark for thousand=
s of
years for wide variety of uses and there is a method in which you use to
properly peel the bark without killing the tree. =C2=A0In fact, I will be g=
oing out
this weekend to harvest bark to make birchbark oil that is used by traditio=
nal
Mi'kmaq healers. =C2=A0Generally speaking the tree suffers no damage and qu=
ickly
heals. =C2=A0 Trees that have been harvested are =C2=A0called CMT's (Cultur=
ally Modified
Trees) by researchers and this also applies to longer growing species. =C2=
=A0CMT's
have recently become the subject of archaeological and anthropological rese=
arch
in BC. =C2=A0Locations where CMT's are found have formed the basis for prot=
ection
against logging, clear cutting or biomass harvesting. 
<div>=C2=A0 </div>
<div><br><div>
<div>On 2013-07-05, at 7:59 AM, nancy dowd &lt; <a
href=3D"mailto:nancypdowd@gmail.com" target=3D"">nancypdowd@gmail.com</a>&g=
t; wrote:
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<div>The following text of an ad on p.10 of Northern Woodlands magazine (Su=
mmer
'13) caught my attention: <br><br></div>"It's white birch bark harvest seas=
on!
We need to buy bark from thousands of trees in June and July!"
<br><br></div>From the contact email I tracked down the company website: <b=
r><a
href=3D"http://www.birchbarkvt.com/" target=3D"">http://www.birchbarkvt.com=
/</a>
<br><br></div>I though stripping birch bark from trees would kill the tree.=
 The
website says nothing about the safety to the trees (or lack thereof) of th