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> not need ei Hello David and all, I imagine our world views aren't actually too far apart. For the good of all in this group, I won't get into the clear cutting thing too much except to say that it has its place in some cases. I have friends working in forestry and I'm actually pretty okay with forestry done with care. That said, I do have to comment on the Minister's claim on clear cuts being the exception. Those of us who have witnessed variable retentions of 10, 20 or 30% will definitely beg to differ. As I read the recent story about Port Hawkesbury Paper being in hot water for not leaving "at least 10 living or partially living trees per hectare" or "at least one clump of no fewer than 30 trees for each eight hectares cut" as wildlife habitat, the craziness of this system fully struck. What???? Did I read this correctlyg??? 10 *partially living* trees? I commented about this to a forestry worker who hangs out in our Annapolis facebook group and didn't get much response. I suspect the only logical response would be sheepish embarrassment. In any case, there is cause to worry if forestry carries on "business as usual" this season while most of us are hunkered down in our respective homes for the next couple of months. Who will be monitoring to see if they are carefully checking for migratory bird nests before they take down forests -- except for the 10 partially living trees? As we have seen from the Forestry Maps HPMV site, there has been no slowing of parcels up for approval for harvest in spite of a pandemic. It seems that forestry in NS is a bit like the USPS motto, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, nor supposedly closed sawmills, stays the slayers of the natural forest." Bev Round Hill
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