Family Forest Network

Updates from the Field

Watch out! - In this photo, FFN field staff specifically mark a keep-out zone for machinery to avoid during harvest. Drainage areas like this are flagged off in order to minimize rutting hazard and prolonged damage to the soil ecosystem and surrounding forest.

Family Forest Network partners Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute and North Nova Forest Owners Co-op Ltd. are co-hosting a Bird Workshop led by Dr. Cindy Staicer in the Wentworth Valley this weekend. Join them to learn more about the birds in your woodlands. Please sign up through this link: https://forms.office.com/r/dRq9Bi6tB0

A reminder that we are co-hosting a Bird Workshop with North Nova that will be led by Cindy Staicer in the Wentworth Valley next weekend. Come join us to learn more about the birds in your woodlands. Please sign up through this link: https://forms.office.com/r/dRq9Bi6tB0

Updates from the Field

From one of our field staff assessing a woodlot near Londonderry earlier this week:

"Spring beauties were everywhere and the bees were celebrating. The site is also loaded full of trout lilies but only a few were opened. I'm betting they will all be out sometime next week.

I also caught a small bear (just a yearling) napping, we had a very brief staredown at about 10ft before it took off through the woods."

To learn more about spring ephemerals, we recommend checking out this article from Kate MacQuarrie in PEI: https://www.pei-untamed.com/post/spring-ephemerals