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A Petition in Support of New Brunswick's 40,000 Woodlot Owners.

Started by SwampDonkey, April 04, 2008, 08:23:29 PM

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SwampDonkey

The online petition can be found HERE.

My blog for the cause can be found HERE.

Here are some news items.

Predicted Job Losses

Cuts to silviculture stunts climate change goals

Woodlot Owners Push for reversal of budget cuts, change in policy

Woodlot improvement programs implemented by Forest Products Marketing Boards



Removing diseased and cull trees from a maple stand, leaving healthy maples for the future. Post treatment conditions.



Woodlot owners invest money in new facilities and wood yard providing new opportunities.

Silviculture



Planning the work area with Mobile GIS, mapping future treatments.

Tree Planting






Some of us promote more than softwood plantations, not funded by the silviculture program





butternut seedlings



butternut pistillate (female) flowers where the nuts are born.



red oak

Pre-commercial Thinning and Plantation Tending



Maintaining diversity of the forest and supplementing with planting native softwood.

Maintaining habitat for the fish, animals and birds



American bittern



Great Blue Heron



Bobcat Tracks



Eastern Coyote

Moose Wintering Areas



Trails



Antler



Moose bed in snow
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

farmerdoug

SD,  it sounds like a good idea but will us Americans signing the petition be of any use?
Doug
Truck Farmer/Greenhouse grower
2001 LT40HDD42 Super with Command Control and AccuSet, 42 hp Kubota diesel
Fargo, MI

SwampDonkey

No, but hopefully there are some more New Brunswick ones besides me. ;)
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

Woodhog

I dont follow the N.B. industry enough to know what is really going on there, but it always seems to be in an uproar, here in N.S. you dont hear much of anything about forestry, it just stumbles along almost on its own.

Is the fact that the crown owns so much land in N.B. the root of the problem???

What are they doing with the money they are  not going to spend on Private lands work???

Here you get faint rumblings now and then when the crown buys or trades land with some of the larger mills, which has been going on lately, I think they are buying it to keep the mills from going broke.

They take some of the bought pieces and call them protected areas and most people yawn and go back to the rum bottle or dope bag.

SwampDonkey

For those none residents of New Brunswick who own woodland in the province, your vote counts to folks.  :)
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

SwampDonkey

Folks, for anyone interested we are meeting at the New Brunswick Woodsmen Museum in Boiestown for a media rally. Anyone with an interest in woodlots and silviculture are encouraged to attend. Meeting starts at 7:00 PM tonight Wednesday April 9th. Don't sit back and let "Joe" do it or you'll find yourself back in 1960. The government needs to come to their senses on this issue.

This is only the beginning!!
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

SwampDonkey

So far I see support from as far away as Colorado and Ontario.  ;)
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

SwampDonkey

New Brunswick Woodlot Owners and Silviculture Workers will meet at Premier Shawn Graham's Constituency Office at 79 Main Street, Rexton, N.B. for a media rally concerning the cuts to the woodlot silviculture program. The meeting will be held on Monday April 14th at 10:30 am.

Be there and be counted!
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

Bill Johnson

Bill

SwampDonkey

"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

Dom

I'll be sending this to all my previous work colleague. :)

SwampDonkey

"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

SwampDonkey

Several hundred woodlot owners and workers appeared in front of the Rexton office of the Premier today.

More written on my blog, link in post one.
"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

JJackson

I finally made it over to this site and signed today.  I am a woodlot owner and property owner in New Brunswick.
BSc. FOR, Certified Arborist/Utility Specialist

SwampDonkey

"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

SwampDonkey

We've gotten 629 signatures the last 27 days.   8)



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"No amount of belief makes something a fact." James Randi

1 Thessalonians 5:21

2020 Polaris Ranger 570 to forward firewood, Husqvarna 555 XT Pro, Stihl FS560 clearing saw and continuously thinning my ground, on the side. Grow them trees. (((o)))

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