Sustainable forestry development

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About a quarter of Nova Scotia's annual overseas exports are forestry-related. The forestry industry employs 6000 people directly and around 13 000 indirectly. So it's recognised as important to keep this industry flourishing.

Many woodlot owners believe it's essential that forest management practices should be environmentally sound. They've started an association called the Forest Products Association of Nova Scotia, which is committed to the sustainable development of the province's forests.

N. F. Douglas Lumber

One of these environmentally aware companies is N.F. Douglas Lumber, which has been active in logging and lumbering in the Caledonia area since the late 1800s.

At that time, the timber workers would stay out in the woods, in camps, working a 5.5 day week. In the spring, the felled logs were floated down the nearest waterway to the mill. Logging now uses machinery rather than manpower.

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