[NatureNS] No clearcutting on Sundays

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A quick check of the DNR website shows their definition of a clearcut is: a
forest harvest where less than 60% of the area is sufficiently occupied
with trees taller than 1.3 meters (
http://novascotia.ca/natr/strategy/clear-cut-definition.asp). 1.3 meters is
not a very tall tree.

As much as clearcuts bother me, what is almost as bad is when they come
back a few years later and log the 20 metre wide strip they left along the
wetland.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca>
wrote:

>      I might start the discussion of clearcutting, on Sundays or other
> days, by looking at the definition of clearcutting. DNR recently provided a
> definition, extremely generous to the forestry industry...
>     Dusan Soudek
>
> > On February 19, 2015 at 10:16 AM Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Quoting David Patriquin <davidgpatriquin@yahoo.ca>:
> >
> > >  It could be  constructive to carry on a similar discussion about
> > > forest management policies in Nova Scotia, as  academic discussion
> > > and debate of this topic seem to be  totally lacking.
> >
> > * well, we can start with the premise that given the character of the
> > Acadian Forest, proper forest management calls for no clear-cutting,
> > anywhere in Nova Scotia, ever.
> >
> > QED?
> >
> > fred.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
> > Mudpuppy Night - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
> > Vulnerable Watersheds - http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/
> > study our books - http://pinicola.ca/books/index.htm
> > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
> > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
> > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
> > "[The] two fundamental steps of scientific thought - the conjecture
> > and refutation of Popper - have little place in the usual conception
> > of intelligence. If something is to be dismissed as inadequate, it is
> > surely not Darwin [, whose] works manifest the activity of a mind
> > seeking for wisdom, a value which conventional philosophy has largely
> > abandoned." Ghiselen, 1969. Triumph of the Darwinian Method, p 237.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >
>

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tr/strategy/clear-cut-definition.asp</a>). 1.3 meters is not a very tall tr=
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   <br>&gt; * well, we can start with the premise that given the character =
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   <br>&gt; anywhere in Nova Scotia, ever.
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   <br>&gt; QED?
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   <br>&gt; fred.
   <br>&gt; ------------------------------------------------------------
   <br>&gt; Frederick W. Schueler &amp; Aleta Karstad
   <br>&gt; Mudpuppy Night - <a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm" tar=
get=3D"_blank">http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm</a>
   <br>&gt; Vulnerable Watersheds - <a href=3D"http://vulnerablewaters.blog=
spot.ca/" target=3D"_blank">http://vulnerablewaters.blogspot.ca/</a>
   <br>&gt; study our books - <a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/books/index.htm=
" target=3D"_blank">http://pinicola.ca/books/index.htm</a>
   <br>&gt; RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
   <br>&gt; on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52&#39;N 75* 42&#39;W
   <br>&gt; <a href=3D"tel:%28613%29258-3107" target=3D"_blank" value=3D"+1=
6132583107">(613)258-3107</a> &lt;bckcdb at <a href=3D"http://istar.ca" tar=
get=3D"_blank">istar.ca</a>&gt; <a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/" target=3D"_=
blank">http://pinicola.ca/</a>
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   <br>&gt; seeking for wisdom, a value which convent