<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Ontario protects gigantic forest area]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by jchret http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:47:35 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/1 Did I miss something?

This is starting to sound like an election year. First the pesticide ban, now a meaningful conservation area? What will be next?

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This is starting to sound like an election year. First the pesticide ban, now a meaningful conservation area? What will be next?

]]> Comment #2 by el mono http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:58:13 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/2 climate change

Actually, removing the boreal forests would increase the albedo of the earth and help slow global warming.  But that would be short-sighted for a myriad of other reasons.

Way to go Canada ... this conservation effort sounds great!

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Actually, removing the boreal forests would increase the albedo of the earth and help slow global warming.  But that would be short-sighted for a myriad of other reasons.

Way to go Canada ... this conservation effort sounds great!

]]> Comment #3 by Wolverine http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:30:34 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/3 Right On!

Apparently, Ontario is a lot cooler than Alberta.

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Apparently, Ontario is a lot cooler than Alberta.

]]> Comment #4 by caniscandida http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/ Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:11:38 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/4 Alberta

has recently been described as "the Texas of Canada" -- which is most vexing to me, because I have had terrific fun in the Rockies there, and looking at paleontological stuff in the Red Deer Valley.

Next Monday, we three are off for three weeks in eastern Canada, including the Gaspe' Peninsula, the northern shore of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.  I am hoping to see lots of trees, whether or not they may technically be considered part of the Boreal Forest.

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has recently been described as "the Texas of Canada" -- which is most vexing to me, because I have had terrific fun in the Rockies there, and looking at paleontological stuff in the Red Deer Valley.

Next Monday, we three are off for three weeks in eastern Canada, including the Gaspe' Peninsula, the northern shore of New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.  I am hoping to see lots of trees, whether or not they may technically be considered part of the Boreal Forest.

]]> Comment #5 by Des Emery http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/ Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:47:29 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/5 The Boreal World

May I be the first to welcome caniscandida to Canada?  The Maritime Provinces he mentions are among the most beautiful parts of the world, but  unfortunately they no longer contain the Boreal Forests.  

 Most of those trees were logged in past centuries to provide the masts for the ships that carried European civilization around the world.  Even the Boreal Forest in northern Ontario is no longer pristine.

The reason for McGuinty's protection has more to do with First Nation (or aboriginal) concerns about mining companies being able to appropriate land without notice to the registered owner(s), mostly Indian Bands, in that area of the province.  

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May I be the first to welcome caniscandida to Canada?  The Maritime Provinces he mentions are among the most beautiful parts of the world, but  unfortunately they no longer contain the Boreal Forests.  

 Most of those trees were logged in past centuries to provide the masts for the ships that carried European civilization around the world.  Even the Boreal Forest in northern Ontario is no longer pristine.

The reason for McGuinty's protection has more to do with First Nation (or aboriginal) concerns about mining companies being able to appropriate land without notice to the registered owner(s), mostly Indian Bands, in that area of the province.  

]]> Comment #6 by henderk http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/ Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:19:12 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/boreal/6 Boreal etc

Hi all:
Just a few little quibbles:
-It is not necessarily en "election year" in Ontario, Alberta or Canada at large.

-Actually, the forests of the maritime provinces are not Boreal, they are a close relative mixed forest, the Acadian forest, which we share with the Northeastern USA.(
http://www.acadiau.ca/botanicalgardens/acadianForest.html ...

That is to say, the natural forest is Acadian--thanks to forest plantations by the pulp and paper and lumber companies with the attendant suppression of  hardwood growback, much of our forest does seem to be Boreal in nature.
I suspect, but will leave it to those more in-depth knowledge that I for confirmation, that the continually green Boreal is a superior carbon sink to the party-deciduous Acadian forest.
Anyway-- I hope you have a good time in the Maritimes; why not consider swinging through Nova Scotia as well--scenery, seafood and the best of Devonian fossils!






]]> Boreal etc

Hi all:
Just a few little quibbles:
-It is not necessarily en "election year" in Ontario, Alberta or Canada at large.

-Actually, the forests of the maritime provinces are not Boreal, they are a close relative mixed forest, the Acadian forest, which we share with the Northeastern USA.(
http://www.acadiau.ca/botanicalgardens/acadianForest.html ...

That is to say, the natural forest is Acadian--thanks to forest plantations by the pulp and paper and lumber companies with the attendant suppression of  hardwood growback, much of our forest does seem to be Boreal in nature.
I suspect, but will leave it to those more in-depth knowledge that I for confirmation, that the continually green Boreal is a superior carbon sink to the party-deciduous Acadian forest.
Anyway-- I hope you have a good time in the Maritimes; why not consider swinging through Nova Scotia as well--scenery, seafood and the best of Devonian fossils!






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