Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on August 19, 2008 at 10:22:17
from the mulch-and-trees-and-trees-and-mulch dept.
This Saturday, the 23rd of August, Clean North's tree-expert volunteers will be available to help you get started planting trees! Come and buy potted trees of locally-adapted species and seed sources, get some Christmas Tree mulch (by donation, bring your own container), and have all your tree-planting questions answered.
"The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is right now."
From 9 am to noon at Lemieux Composting.
Tree species available this year include Norway Spruce, Red Oak, Bur Oak, White Cedar, and Red Pine.
We'll also have bat houses, rainbarrels, and coir fibre blocks for purchase. Coir fibre is the environmentally friendly alternative to peat moss, sustainably produced and not mined.
Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on July 31, 2007 at 08:45:28
from the mulch-and-trees-and-trees-and-mulch-and... dept.
Time to plant trees with Clean North! Do what you can to improve the air and cool the planet!
Saturday August 18 from 9:00 am to Noon at Lemieux's on Black Road. The trees are larger stock this year, so they will sell for $5 per tree. The tree species are mainly Norway Spruce, Red Pine, Bur Oak, Red Oak, and European Larch. The pine and oak are from a local seed source, all grow well in this climate. Do remember to water well during planting and throughout this first growing season to get the trees well established.
Christmas tree chip mulch will be available, by donation. It works well for conifer trees, as it is acidic. Layers of newspaper on top of the soil, then about six inches of tree chip mulch, will prevent weeds and grasses from overtopping your little tree and taking all the nutrients, water, and sunlight. Bring your own container(s) for mulch (first come, first served until it's gone).
Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on March 09, 2005 at 21:40:56
from the a-walk-on-the-wild-side dept.
This just in from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. "The Ontario government is looking for ways to build a better future for Ontario's forests and forest industry. Please join CPAWS-Wildlands League for a discussion about how we can work together to create a brighter future for northern communities and forests."
Discussion sessions will be held in Kenora, Thunder Bay, North Bay, and Sault Ste. Marie. Details of the Sault meeting are below.
Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on August 23, 2002 at 15:33:40
from the wanna-plant-a-tree? dept.
Clean North is planning for its now-annual Green Side Up event! This is our second time for the fall tree planting festival, in the parking lot of Rome's Your Independent Grocer. We'll be giving away baby seedling trees and as much christmas-tree mulch as you want to take away, from 9 am on September 28th. First-come-first-served, while-supplies-last, and all that. We'll also have a limited number of somewhat older potted trees for $3. Bring containers for mulch, and bring any old nursery pots and flats that you want to recycle.
Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on September 07, 2001 at 15:50:05
from the got-an-axe-to-grind? dept.
Late on the Friday of the Labour Day long weekend, The Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) released a new draft of their clearcutting guideline which requires companies to create massive clearcuts in Ontario's public forests. An earlier draft of the guideline was released last fall and called for the use of 10,000 hectare clearcuts (larger than the City of Guelph). Rather than addressing the public outcry that resulted, the MNR has now removed any limit on the size of clearcut allowed. See more details below.
Your comments to MNR are a key element in the fight to get this guideline changed and to stop this dangerous Canadian precedent. Here's how, and why, it's important that you help...
Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on July 30, 2001 at 10:12:37
from the activists-of-the-world-unite dept.
Judd MacRae, Intern Conservation Organizer for the Sierra Club Northstar Chapter, writes: "I am writing because I am setting up a listserv for groups in the upper midwest and Canada that are working on forestry/biodiversity issues. My vision for this is to create more communication between groups in the area, in order to create a more unified, powerful front among environmental groups." Get in touch if you want to be included, or know someone who ought to be on this list. Email Judd or phone him at (952) 457-3405.
Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on October 31, 2000 at 21:45:25
from the municipal-environmental-issues dept.
The City of Sault Ste. Marie calls itself "Naturally Gifted" and by many counts it is. Within our city we have exceptional recreational trails, rivers and streams of all shapes and sizes, a diversity of geological landforms and a wide range of flora and fauna. Outside of our city to the north is the spectacular shoreline of Lake Superior and to the east the historic and productive wetlands of the St. Marys River. We are truly gifted and the ecotourism market is expanding. We must consider this opportunity but we must also protect the ecological values that visitors come to this city to see, without them the visitors will stop coming and we will lose on two fronts.
MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL -- Earthworms may be our friends in the vegetable garden and a useful addition to the bait bucket, but according to University of Minnesota scientists Cynthia Hale, Lee Frelich and Peter Reich, they appear to be an unwelcome intruder in Minnesota's hardwood forests. Hale presented a talk, "Impacts of Invading European Earthworms on Understory Plant Communities in Previously Worm-free Hardwood Forests of Minnesota," Monday, Aug. 7, in Snowbird, Utah, during the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America. Her presentation was part of a session on Invertebrate Herbivore-Plant Interactions.
Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on August 13, 2000 at 20:40:49
from the paper?-who-needs-paper? dept.
Andrea writes: "The latest issue of the "Goulais River Watershed News" is now available. If you would like a copy of our latest newsletter, please send me your snail-mail address (unfortunately, it's only in paper version right now). For more information, check our our website (the newsletters haven't made it there yet) or to get a copy of of the newsletter, write to me (Andrea Maenza), Local Coordinator of the Goulais River Watershed Project, Wildlands League."
Posted by: Kathie Brosemer (kathie) on January 18, 2000 at 22:03:56
from the last-chance-to-comment dept.
The Algoma Forest twenty-year management plan has been approved by the Ministry of Natural Resources. It's the long-term strategy, plus the five-year harvest plan. They're taking public comment until the 15th of February, at MNR offices in the Sault, South Porcupine, and Toronto (during business hours and, by appointment, during non-business hours). Call 705-949-1231 in the Sault. They announce their webpage as www.algomaforest.com but it doesn't have the plan, just some general information and a couple of maps.
