Ten per cent (185,000 hectares) of Nova Scotia’s Crown land will eventually be treated like a farmer’s field, where trees are grown as a crop on 30- to 50-year rotations.
Jack pine logs are moved to the roadside for pickup in Cumberland County in 2020. - Aaron BeswickAfter five years of research, planning and much debate, a new paradigm for managing Nova Scotia’s Crown land is in place.
Achieving the anticipated yield of one million green tonnes of wood annually will see sites clearcut, the soil fertilized or limed, planted, potentially sprayed with herbicides to eliminate leafy competing species, pre-commercial thinned for a decade or more and eventually harvested as a block. “I want to emphasize how pleased I am that the triad recommendation has been so comprehensively embraced,” said Lahey when contacted by The Chronicle Herald on Wednesday.
“Everybody has to take a little water with their wine,” said Raymond Plourde, wilderness co-ordinator for the Ecology Action Centre, when asked about the high production forestry leg. In its announcement, Natural Resources unveiled sites it had deemed acceptable for high-production classification in a western ecodistrict straddling Lunenburg, Queens and Annapolis counties , a central ecodistrict straddling Colchester and Pictou counties and an eastern district straddling Antigonish and Guysborough counties .
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