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Category Archives: Fire Ecology
Common Nighthawk is HRM 2024 Bird of the Year 29Jun2024
It’s not common, it’s not a hawk, and it doesn’t hunt at night, but the Common Nighthawk IS “HRM 2024 Bird of the Year”! The announcement was made by Jess Lewis on Mainstreet NS in conversation with host Jeff Douglas … Continue reading
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” Large Increase in Fine for Illegal Burning During Wildfire Season” – NS Gov. 16May2024
” The Province has increased the fine for violating the daily burn restrictions to $25,000, effective today, May 16. “Almost all wildfires in Nova Scotia are human caused. With the weather starting to get warmer and dryer, I cannot stress … Continue reading
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Prime fire season for the Backlands coming up 30Apr2024
The Spryfield Fire of 2009, which burned about 2/3 of the Backlands, destroyed 8 homes and damaged 10 others, occurred April 29-May 1, 2009. Fire Season in NS: April to October Fire season in Nova Scotia is considered to be … Continue reading
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Towards a combined Conservation/Fire Management Strategy for the Backlands 26Oct2023
Yours Truly (David P) talked about Fires, Conservation and Fire Management in the Halifax Backlands in an online presentation to the Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society on Oct 29, 2023. The presentation is available on YouTube and the slide deck … Continue reading
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Shaw Wilderness Park – Camp Fire Sighted! 31July2023
A camp fire was sighted in the Shaw Wilderness Park by residents of Williams Lake the evening of July 31. Fire Fighters could not reach the camp site and could not verify if the fire had been extinguished properly. Residents … Continue reading
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Golden Heather in flower in the Backlands 30Jun2023
And some thoughts about what’s involved in keeping it around. By David Patriquin I have been observing Golden Heather (Hudsonia ericoides ) in flower in the Backlands over the last last 10 days or so. Golden Heather is hard to … Continue reading
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Jack Pines are in flower in the Backlands (Halifax, NS) 30May2023
We generally don’t think of conifers or Gymnosperms as flowering and if you follow the strict definition of flowers as ‘the reproductive structures of Angiosperms – the flowering plants’, they do not. However conifers do produce the reproductive structures equivalent … Continue reading
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Fire-scarred white pines are a reminder that it’s Fire Season – especially in the Backlands (Halifax, NS) 19May2023
Contributed by David Patriquin Update May 28, 2023: Out-of-control fire in Upper Tantallon Area, All of HRM under Fire Ban. View The Coast ———- On the last weekend in April, I participated in two walks in the Backlands in which … Continue reading
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Recent fire and fire management in the New Jersey Pine Barrens: a model for the Backlands? 12Jul2022
“Fueled by high winds and dry conditions, New Jersey’s largest wildfire in 15 years swept through Wharton State Forest in the Pine Barrens two weeks ago, burning more than 13,500 acres.” So begins an article titled Pine Barrens natural landscape … Continue reading
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Mapping forest fire risk in the Eastern Chebucto Peninsula Backlands
Sasha Mosky, a Master of Planning student at Dalhousie University, examined fire risk in the Eastern Chebucto Peninsula Backlands. Using civic address point data, Sasha created a 4-kilometer buffer around all homes in the backlands. Then, using Ecological Land Classification … Continue reading
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