Bay Of Islands Center Pictures of Liscombe Game Sanctuary in Nova Scotia

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"A sustainable environment is one in which the natural environment, economic development and social life are seen as mutually dependent".
-- Centre for Innovative Education

A Walk in Liscomb Game Sanctuary - May 14th, 2005

Throughout the walk we were struck by the evident absence of respect for everything that sustains us all. A triumph of short sighted greed and indifference. When will they understand that a forest is an interdependent community of life forms that cannot be treated like a field of wheat?
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Almost Perfect - Even on a Cloudy Day	Beware, this land is protected !	After manual hardwood suppression treatment
"Protected" game will be impaled on these sticks when breaking through a snow crust	Regeneration after a previous clearcut Note the age of the stump. It gives an indication of the time required to even regenerate the modest saplings shown in this picture.	Regeneration after a previous clearcut
Regeneration after a previous clearcut	More manual hardwood suppression	It's not all manual. Sign advising of chemical (herbicide) treatment near water reservoir
Gail Martin & Valerie Horne find a pond in the woods alnong the road	Recent clearcutting in a stand that was just beginning to recover from a previous cut (60-80 years ago)	Adding insult to injury - A large, perfectly healthy tree cut down and left to rot. What a waste!
It will be another 60-80 years before this will look anything like a healthy forest again.
This tree was a 'survivor' having endured crowding, wind and disease and growing actively until it was cut prematurely	A 'mother' tree of excellent genetic stock, growing vigorously is no more.
	Once the moss and the humus is washed into the lakes and rivers, this will be as barren as the battlefields of Flanders for many years to come.

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