Promoting healthy forests and ecosystems in Bruce and Grey Counties through education, recreation and sustainable management practices.
For your reading interest when you feel like a break from seasonal bustle, some interesting work being done in eastern Ontario aimed at testing strategies for managing white pine dominated forests in ways that are more adapted to the current and future effects of climate change. For an overview read article in The Forestry Chronicle. …
Continue reading Collaborating on Climate Change: Petawawa Research Forest
...before and after harvesting? Before a timber harvest, there are many things to think about, questions to answer, details to consider. One important outcome that woodland owners often have a hard time imagining is “What will my woods look like after the job is done?” This subsection of the Maine Forest service website and the associated …
Here it is, the FINAL trivia teaser before this afternoon's BGWA Treevia Extravaganza at the Outlaw Brewery in Southampton, starting at 2:00 PM. According to Gifford Pinchot's "A Primer of Forestry Part 1-The Forest", which was first published in 1903, how do trees move water from the roots to the very top of the tree?" …
Plagues of forest-destroying insects seem to arrive on our shores almost as regularly as ocean waves. Yet for each major tree killer, around half a dozen foreign insects live quietly in our forests, causing few noticeable problems. A new study may help scientists pick out the future tree killers from the crowd, and it has …
Continue reading Scientists Can Now Predict Which Invasive Insects Will Wipe Out Forests
To help get the brain juices flowing in advance of our trivia event happening this Saturday, November 16th, at Outlaw Brewery in Southampton, here's another warm-up question: How many different species of tree are used when building a traditional birch bark canoe? Three: White Birch for the skin, Eastern White Cedar for the gunnels, and …
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