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Healthy Forest Coalition

Nature & Wildlife

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Acadian forests once provided a host of habitats for wild plants and animals. Many of the original tree species lived for several hundred years and provided clean water for streams, nesting opportunities, holes for shelter, denning sites and environments where lichens and mosses could grow.  Now, with the forest industry's short rotations, trees are cut at 20 to 40 years of age.

Since the 19th century Nova Scotia's forests have been forced up a steeper and steeper ramp to larger and larger-scale, bigger and bigger machine-driven forest felling.   Roughly 40% of Nova Scotia's forests have been clearcut in the past 25 years.   What's left?  A legacy of degraded soils and forests, destroyed habitats for wildlife, and dried up streams.


Nature is taking it in the ear.


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Bancroft - Bad Forestry Path Not Shared with Wildlife
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Bancroft - Degrading Forests for Private Profit with Government Help
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Bancroft - Seed Trees Determine Forest Future
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Bancroft - Give Our Forests Back to the People
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Bancroft - Bad Forestry, Affect on Fauna
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Bancroft - Give Wildlife a Chance
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Our forests can again become a great ecological and economic asset for Nova Scotia.
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  • Home
  • NS Forest Notes
  • The Moose Blockade
    • Ecojustice: Notes from Court
    • Gutted: The Habitat of the Endangered Mainland Moose
    • Mainland Moose in Nova Scotia
    • Moose Postcard Campaign
  • For The Birds
    • Migratory Birds in Nova Scotia
    • Migratory Birds Convention Act - Explained
    • What Can I Do?
  • ACTION
    • New Old Growth Forest Policy
    • Support Biodiversity Act
    • Our current campaign
    • Our Mission and Our Story
    • How you can help: Speak up for our Forests
    • How to contact your MLA
    • Contact Us
  • Resources
    • Clearcutting
    • Biomass
    • Soils
    • Water
    • Nature & Wildlife
    • Law & Policy
    • Forest Strategy
    • Economics
    • History
    • Natural Resources Strategy - Summary
  • HFC Blog
  • HFC Supporters
  • HFC FOREST BRIEFINGS
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  • 2021 Provincial Election
  • Lahey Assessment/Press Release
  • Forest Alerts
    • Atlantic Whitefish at Risk