Other sites of interest for people in the Acadian Forest Region…

Ecology Action Centre
The Ecology Action Centre
has been an active advocate, protecting the environment since 1971. The Centre's earliest projects included recycling, composting, and energy conservation, and recently the Wilderness Committee has started to focus on protecting wilderness areas and promoting sustainable forestry........more.

GPI Forest Accounts Report
GPI
Atlantic is a non-profit research group, founded in 1997, to develop an index of sustainable development and well being - the Genuine Progress Index.......more

FSC Canada
The
Forest Stewardship Council is an international non-profit organization founded in 1993 to support environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests.......more.

elements
Seeing the forest
AND the trees - Sustainable forestry......more
(Bilingual site)


Clearcut Nova Scotia

In
Nova Scotia, we have a problem called clearcutting. It ruins the woods and it's out of control. Since the early 1990s clearcutting has claimed over 500km2 of Nova Scotia’s forests every year..........more.

Maine Low Impact Forestry Project
The
Maine Low Impact Forestry Project is a group of Loggers, foresters and woodlot owners interested in developing and promoting the methods and technologies of Low Impact Forestry...........more.

The Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project
A joint effort of the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island and the Sir Andrew Macphail Foundation, The Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project combines protection of the natural area
along the streams with.......more.

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