[NatureNS] birch bark harvesting ad /"marker trees"

Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 14:20:23 -0300 (ADT)
From: Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca>
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   Tuma,
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   &#160;&#160; is there a tradition among the Mi&#39;kmaq of&#160; &#34;marker trees?&#34;&#160; Or a cultural memory of such trees? &#160;Such culturally modified trees had their trunks partially broken, usually at two locations, with the result that the trees remained alive but with a Z-shaped trunk. There are all kinds of references to &#34;marker trees&#34; on the internet, but they are almost all from the U.S....&#160;
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   &#160; Dusan Soudek
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   <br/>On July 5, 2013 at 1:32 PM Tuma Young &#60;tumayoung@me.com&#62; wrote:
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    The Mi&#39;kmaq have been harvesting birch bark for thousands of years for wide variety of uses and there is a method in which you use to properly peel the bark without killing the tree. &#160;In fact, I will be going out this weekend to harvest bark to make birchbark oil that is used by traditional Mi&#39;kmaq healers. &#160;Generally speaking the tree suffers no damage and quickly heals. &#160; Trees that have been harvested are &#160;called CMT&#39;s (Culturally Modified Trees) by researchers and this also applies to longer growing species. &#160;CMT&#39;s have recently become the subject of archaeological and anthropological research in BC. &#160;Locations where CMT&#39;s are found have formed the basis for protection against logging, clear cutting or biomass harvesting. 
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       On 2013-07-05, at 7:59 AM, nancy dowd &#60;
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            The following text of an ad on p.10 of Northern Woodlands magazine (Summer &#39;13) caught my attention:
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          </div> From the contact email I tracked down the company website:
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          http://www.birchbarkvt.com/
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         </div> I though stripping birch bark from trees would kill the tree. The website says nothing about the safety to the trees (or lack thereof) of this activity.
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