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Index of Subjects >If there was a block of land of 200 acres, of uniform aged, overmature >white spruce and fir, what would you suggest as a sensible alternative >to a 200 acre clearcut? > >Kevin Chisholm I would suggest that forest ecologists or other forest experts might have several different approaches for harvest. In any case, it would depend to some extent on the specific case and condtion of trees, the status of forest in terms of layers of vegetation from ground to crown, the topography and soils of the site, presence of streams or other waterbodies, and so on. In Nova Scotia we will seldom find a flat, fully uniform, and fully overmature tree stand unless it was a previous reforestation tree farm. I agree that there are some pretty miserable tree stands that lack characteristics of a healthy forest such as diversity of size and species and layers of vegetation. We seem to have a lot of woodlands in early succession (by forest standards) as they grow back from former clearing. They do get to a stage where they are 'ripe for picking' for pulpwood. It is difficult to let them keep going to the next stage where a more mature forest might develop. Instead, they get cut down and we start over. Perhaps we need to set areas aside for tree farms and areas aside to become forests. At least we would know which are which and clarify the debate on clearcut vs other forms of sustainable harvest. If someone grows a field of potatoes we expect it to be harvested. If someone grows a patch of trees for pulp we expect it to harvested. The conflict seems to be in areas where the industry sees all wooded lands as farm and others see all wooded land as forest. Additionally, the lack of concern for waterbodies, and recreational uses (portage destruction for example), and any vegetation values other than trees gets the industry in trouble with those interested in long-term and multiple use of wooded lands. Dan Earle -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on the Sustainable Maritimes mailing list (sust-mar). http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/lists/sust-mar -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Sponsors: Chebucto Community Net http://www.chebucto.ns.ca Sierra Club - Chebucto Group http://www.sierraclub.ca Volunteer moderator: Paul Falvo mailto:sust-mar-owner@chebucto.ns.ca To submit a message to sust-mar, please send it to: mailto:sust-mar@chebucto.ns.ca PLEASE SEND MESSAGES TO SUST-MAR IN PLAIN TEXT ONLY MESSAGES CONTAINING HTML (MIME) CANNOT BE POSTED
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