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Assessing the validity of wild food production in Manitoba

Can Manitoba landowners harness the potential that grows in untouched wooded areas?

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Manitoba forests and wooded areas could be a cornucopia of wild edibles ranging from mushrooms to herbal teas, the Woodlot Association of Manitoba (WAM) says. It has been consulting with woodlot owners this spring about the potential for creating a sustainable woodland food industry. “We are trying to suggest to landowners that they can do
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Province bulldozes Agro Woodlot Program

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Manitoba Woodlot Association “disappointed” that the one-of-a-kind 
program assisting small-scale forestry has been cancelled


Manitoba’s Agro Woodlot Program has fallen to the provincial budget axe. Short-term contracts for four forestry technicians based in communities in the southern part of the province were allowed to expire in March, and grants for logging based on beneficial management practices will no longer be offered. A provincial spokesperson confirmed the Manitoba Agro Woodlot
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To Clear-Cut Or Not, That Is The Question

Tree huggers think clear-cutting is a sin, but woodlot foresters say it’s sometimes the right thing to do. “There’s basically two stand types in southern Manitoba,” Carol Graham, a MAFRI woodlot forester based in Souris, said at a recent presentation at the Forester’s Memorial Hall in Baldur. “The one that’s most prevalent is an even-aged
Country Crossroads

Will It Stay The Same After You Are Gone?

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Have you ever wondered what your place will look like long after you are gone? Well, that thought crossed the minds of Shirley and Ted Ross and they decided not to leave anything to chance. “There is quite diverse wildlife and plant life on our property,” said Shirley, a landowner near Roseisle. “We didn’t like
Opinion

Breaking Down The Windbreaks

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It’s common to hear the chainsaws buzzing this time of year, as the untold number of residents in this province who heat with wood at least some of the time go about gathering, stacking and splitting their winter supply. It’s hard to imagine a more annoying sound than these saws cutting through the afternoon’s calm,
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Money Grows On Trees

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By actively managing about 100 acres of hardwood forest, David Pogson figures he and his brother Barry’s sawmill sideline might eventually account for about one-third of their farm income within a decade. Out of the seven-acre plot from which they are doing a managed harvest, they have already removed 30 cords of firewood in the
Crops, Other livestock

What’s Up – for Aug. 27, 2009

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Wooded landscape inspires sawmill business

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“It would be nice to see a younger generation take this up.” – BEAT CHRISTEN When Beat Christen bought 68 acres of land along the Boyne River 20 years ago, most of it was heavily treed with mature oak and ash and basswood. It remains so today, even after he’s removed plenty of lumber from
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Incentives available to encourage woodlot harvest

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Hardwood floors are beautiful with their distinctive cache. But a hardwood floor made from local trees, well, that gives the owner some bragging rights. Manitoba has the hardwood and Shane Tornblom believes there are buyers willing to pay a premium for a locally produced, high-quality product. “That’s why we want to get a micro-forestry industry

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