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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday I visited Wallace Bay like I've been doing for many years.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As with most things, it changes as it ages. Always interesting to<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">see the changes.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">When the impoundments were build in 1973, Grey Birch ( Betula populifolia )<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">was sown on the dykes to provide protection until nature would select the proper<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">trees and shrubs for the dykes.  The birch have grown to 12 m or so with a 15 cm diameter<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">at breast height. But they are near maturity and many are now getting broken and blown over<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">so the sun can get to the ground. In those spots red Maples are thriving. The succession was well<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">planned. Another 40 years, October will be special there. A lot of shrubs are thriving also.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">There is a hill side between ponds that had a good  stand of popular with a few oaks. </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">They are nice trees, 20 - 25 m </span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">in height and 30 cms + at breast height.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> However they are being harassed by beavers, old age and other things. The red maples and<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">oak seedlings are waiting on the floor for a beaver to give them some sunlight and that forest<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">will change also. <br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Beavers are plentiful and have made a few dams. One spot where I used to canoe is dammed <br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">up now and cattails as high as my head have taken over. Wonderful how fashions in Russia and China<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">cast a shadow over cattails and little oaks in Nova Scotia!<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">On the hillside I saw a shrub of Crab Apples. Maybe it intended to be a tree but is not there yet.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Crab Apples in the wild are rare in NS but it had beautiful fruit. My Mother made delicious Crab Apple<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">stew. It and a roast goose was a feast for a king.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the fall<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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