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> and property values. Some of those l
Hi Bev and All,
What you describe certainly sounds like too much of a watershed
scalped at once. This idea of no more than 10% of a watershed clear-cut
in an one decade should be pushed until it is accepted. Leaving a strip
of trees on either side of a brook does provide shade but if the brook
is a washout which then runs dry a short time later then shade is just a
coffin ornament.
The consequences of excessive cutting rates is almost ancient
history. A stream can be ruined in a very short time and recovery may
take many decades if ever. Cutting is necessary and desirable but soil
and stream degradation reflects sloth.
YT, DW, Kentville.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca>
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Sent: 3/3/2019 7:35:07 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Crown land forests - suggestions for
ground-truthing sites
>On 03-Mar.-19 5:45 p.m., Bev Wigney wrote:
>
>> People
>>close to some of the extensive clearcuts on the South Mountain have
>>experienced unusual flooding with mud and water around their homes
>>since the intensive clearcutting began. They say it is unlike
>>anything they have seen in the past although they have lived at those
>>locations for decades.
>
>* when we were on Vancouver Island in 1987, we were camped at the edge of a patch of intact forest surrounded by 17 year clearcuts, and we observed that there was never any surface runoff from the forest, but only from the clearcut or otherwise human-influenced sites.
>
>A useful kind of ground-truthing would be for those living near forests to select sites with comparable slopes which have intact and removed or degraded woods, and to record, during heavy rainstorms, whether there is surface runoff from each slope or not.
>
>fred.
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