Macphail Woods Articles
Clearcuts and biq plantations - so what else is new?
by Gary Schneider

In an interesting twist of fate, my partner and I purchased a property within the proposed Provincial Forest in the Klondyke Road area east of Iona. The Round Table on Land Resource Use and Stewardship, of which I was a member, agreed "with a number of groups who believe that Provincial Forests must reflect the highest standard of management, they must demonstrate best practices and they must show the full range of appropriate silvicultural techniques."

The report recommended that Provincial Forests (large acreages of forests with a high percentage of public ownership) be designated and that plans should first promote an increase in biodiversity. "In practice, this means that the preferred treatments should be: small patch-cuts or shelterwood cuts, managing for natural regeneration and planting long-lived, native species of late successional hardwoods and softwoods," the report stated.

The report went on to say that "management plans should be subjected to public consultation and input at five-year intervals" and that "the public be involved in making decisions, and not become just the audience for a Government effort in public relations."

CBC is reporting that in areas of Tignish, the maple trees have lost most of their leaves and it looks like fall on some streets. There is the spot fungus that we see on a lot of maples all over the island, but apparently, this one is different.

It's only mid-August, but leaves are already falling off some trees on Prince Edward Island because of a fungus that targets maple trees.

Streets and lawns in the community of Tignish, on the northern tip of the Island, are blanketed with fallen brown leaves.

"It's almost as if it's late October," said resident Leo Perry. "I've noticed they're especially maple trees."

Village officials blame the early fall-like conditions on a fungus that targets maple trees and hits sugar maples and Norway maples the hardest.

"It could be a disease called anthracnose," said Jamie McCue, a landscaper for the village.

Tree fungus attacking P.E.I. maples
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/prince-edward-island/story/2010/08/17/pei-tree-...

Whatever it is, it is important to collect the leaves and bury or burn them. The leaves are where the next years crop is going to come fron.

Acadian Forests of Prince Edward Island

On December 13, 2005, Minister of Environment, Energy and Forestry Jamie Ballem announced today that the Province has reached an agreement with the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island to manage 800 hectares of public land in southeastern PEI. Under the 10-year lease agreement, the Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project in Orwell will use the lands to demonstrate sustainable forest management and restoration of our native Acadian woodlands.

Forests have been my interest for a long time, starting from a love of the outdoors, growing with curiosity about woodland communities and continuing with employment in the forest industry. Yet as a treeplanter, woodsworker, naturalist and woodlot owner, I began to feel something was wrong. The clearcut-replant-herbicide cycle was not leading to healthy forests. Books and magazine articles started appearing on ecological methods of forestry. Foresters, especially those trained in Europe and working in Canada, were voicing concerns over industrial-style management. I learned more about Dr.

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February 26, 2008

Horse-logging project underway in provincial forests
Use of animals to move trees harkens back to earlier time
The Guardian

DUNDAS — Way down along a snow-covered logging road near Dundas, two horses and a sleigh pull three generations of Taylor men through narrow pathways in the woods.
The men pick through a four-acre area of Crown land, choosing dead or crooked trees in the stand for firewood. Their chainsaws mark the only sound of machinery for miles as they slice through the trunks of their handpicked trees.

February 6, 2008
CBC News

The ice storm that swept the island last week damaged nearly 70 per cent of trees in the city of Summerside and left enough hanging and broken tree limbs in P.E.I. National Park that the park has had to close some trails.

Trent Williams, horticulturist and arborist for Summerside, told CBC News Wednesday he has been busy surveying the damage.

"Spruce, pine seemed to get hit fairly well, also some of your softer softwoods. Everything from immature … newly planted trees … up to 60-foot, 70-foot mature trees [is damaged]," said Williams.

Irving closes Georgetown Timber sawmill
Last Updated: Thursday, September 13, 2007 | 3:55 PM AT
CBC News

Thirty-three employees in Georgetown, P.E.I., are out of work following a decision by forestry conglomerate J.D. Irving Ltd. to shut down the province's largest lumber yard indefinitely.

The North American lumber industry has been going through some trying times, and the closure of the Georgetown Timber plant in eastern P.E.I. is unavoidable, J.D. Irving spokeswoman Mary Keith told CBC News Thursday.

P.E.I. sees trees, not the forest
Last Updated: Thursday, December 7, 2006 | 4:48 PM AT
CBC News

The government of P.E.I. has set aside about 800 hectares of Crown land for a sustainable forestry project, with an eye towards harvesting high-value trees instead of knocking down forests for pulp.