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Review of Forest Practices in Nova Scotia

Hi All,

In the past several months, Nova Scotia had “An Independent Review of Forest Practices in Nova Scotia”. Below is the Executive Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations. This was completed by William Lahey of Dalhousie University.

Note the conclusions on Forestry Professionals on Page 57.

Riley

Lahey_FP_Review_Report_ExecSummary

DOWNLOAD HERE:Executive Summary, Conclusions and Recommendations

The Addendum contains some very interesting material around forestry practices:

ADDENDUM:Addendum for An Independent Review of Forest Practices in Nova Scotia

Provincial Scalers Examinations / Examens provinciaux des mesureurs

DNR will be conducting a Scalers Refresher Course on May 19 and 20 in both official languages at this same location (8:30 – 4:30). This is available to exam candidates only. There is no fee for this refresher. Candidates are strongly encouraged to attend.

Arrangements for the 2015 Provincial Scalers Examinations are as follows:

Location: Florenceville DNR Office, 381 Centreville Road, Route 110, Florenceville-Bristol, NB

May 21, starting at 8:30 AM – General License, Stacked Measure
May 22, starting at 8:30 AM – FBM

Applications (attached) must be received at DNR Forest Management Branch by May 1 (https://www.pxw1.snb.ca/snb7001/b/1000/CSS-FOL-SNB-60-0006B.pdf ).

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Par ailleurs, le Ministère offrira gratuitement un cours de recyclage pour les mesureurs au même endroit, les 19 et 20 mai, de 8 h 30 à 16 h 30. Le cours, qui sera donné dans les deux langues officielles, ne sera offert qu’aux candidats à l’examen. Ces derniers sont donc vivement encouragés à y assister.

Les examens provinciaux de 2015 à l’intention des mesureurs se dérouleront aux dates et lieu que voici :

Lieu : bureau MRN District-Florenceville, 381 rue Centreville, Route 110, Florenceville-Bristol, NB

Le 21 mai à compter de 8 h 30 – permis général et mesurage du volume apparent
Le 22 mai à compter de 8 h 30 – mesurage en pieds-planche (pmp)

Les formulaires de demande en pièce jointe doivent être dûment remplis et doivent parvenir à la Direction de la gestion des forêts du ministère des Ressources naturelles au plus tard le 1 mai (https://www.pxw1.snb.ca/snb7001/b/1000/CSS-FOL-SNB-60-0006B.pdf ).

Putting Our Resources to Work

The New Crown Land Forest Management Strategy has been in the news quite a bit lately and has sparked considerable discussion around the management of our provincial resources. For those who haven’t had a read yet, you should read through it. It’s a strategy so it isn’t very long.

Here’s the link: http://www2.gnb.ca/content/dam/gnb/Departments/nr-rn/pdf/en/ForestsCrownLands/AStrategyForCrownLandsForestManagement.pdf

Free GIS Software

A while back I took over a website that had been owned by Paul Pringey in the USA. ForestPal.com offers all kinds of free land management software, one of which is the flagship product fGIS. This is a fully functional geographic information system software package and it is 100% free.

It is capable of reading and editing ESRI ArcView shapefiles, displaying aerial photography, and has transparency capability. In other words this software has a lot of the functionality of software that costs $1500 – $2000.

The last public build of this software was in 2005 by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. I now have the distribution rights to this software so please feel free to download it. There is a complete set of instructions that come with the software, so you can be up and running in minutes.

Go to ForestPal.com

Professional Development Day

  

Fall 2009 Professional Development Day

You’ve seen the Power Points, now see the trees!

On Thursday, October 9th join us for a field trip to the Green River site where we will have the opportunity to visit recently harvested and standing blocks with a guided tour. We will start in the Edmundston Regional DNR Office at 9:00 a.m. with a brief indoor session and then travel out to the blocks. A 15 passenger van is booked; if there are more participants additional transport can be arranged.

Bring your own lunch, and dress for any weather. There is no cost for the day.

You must reserve your seat no later than October 7 by contacting the office at the e-mail or phone number below.

Jen Hacking, RPF

Executive Director/Directrice générale

1350 Regent St., Suite 221

Fredericton, NB

E3C 2G6

506-452-6933 tel

506-450-3128 fax

info@arpfnb.ca

www.arpfnb.ca