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Living, working, volunteering, and sometimes playing in the forests, rivers, trails, and coasts of New Brunswick.
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Maple sap running is the first sign that the forest is waking up for spring. The Wolastoqiyik called sugar maple trees sonaw. Every Canadian should know that tapping maple for sap started with indigenous knowledge that was shared freely out of friendship.

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Bobcats are beautiful animals. I snuck up on one today on a trail through the Woolasook protected area and got within 20 feet of it before we both noticed each other. It took off like a ghost on the hard crusty snow. If it weren't for a dusting of powder on top it may not have left a track at all.

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Tree lungwort is a symbiote and a pollution sensitive epiphyte. This maple 🍁 was completely carpeted.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

To celebrate the Once-ler being appointed as the head of the US Forest Service I wanted to share the story of the Lorax... rapped as Dr. S surely meant it to be. youtu.be/olagQ88D2VA

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Sharing a screencap from climate.NASA.gov before it gets taken offline and replaced with 'alternative facts'. Ice cores provide a view into the earth's past. There is incredible work being done by the Canadian Ice Core Lab at the University of Alberta. #climatescience #ForWinter

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It's 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗶𝗿𝗹𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲. I only know because this is being shared a lot across all platforms.

submitted 45 days ago • 19 comments

It's been 25 years since this old forest was harvested with a continuous canopy system. The landowner had a long term plan. Today saplings of red spruce, cedar, red maple, and hemlock are abundant. Despite doing everything right this stand is threatened - being at the edge of a growing city.

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Pictured is grove of red spruce in the Fundy region. These trees are growing strait, limbless, and tight-grained. They have rained seed down to the forest floor to create a thick carpet of seedlings in the moisture of the fog-belt. This forest is at risk to climate-change driven drought.

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Balsam fir in southern NB is experiencing the impact of climate change. While random events have caused healthy, young, canopy trees to snap, uproot, or die for eons - the rate is accelerating. Numerous studies suggest the species is maladapted to today's conditions throughout the Acadian forest.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

News from the Atlantic Forest Health workshop is that trace amounts of e-DNA has been found at several southern NB sites associated with the Hemlock Wooly Adelgid. This invasive species threatens these majestic trees that can live >500 years and have been part of this land since glacial retreat.

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A fascinating winter scene where the track of a small mammal (maybe a shrew) came to an end with an impression of two large wings in the snow. My guess is a barred owl

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A winter storm has snapped the trunk of this dead tree. At this point it's considered coarse woody debris. This one received considerable attention from a pileated woodpecker.

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Old spruce-fir forest provides important winter habitat for many species. The canopy intercepts snow and provides thermal cover for deer. Dead trees on the ground create space for subnivean (under snow) critters.

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Old coastal red spruce forest after a Christmas eve storm.

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Old growth white pine / red oak / hemlock forest at Currie Mtn

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Old red spruce forest along the little Pokiok

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