[EyeBrock]

You have to dig deeper on Wiki.
They kept the Canada West Detachment out the spotlight due to the Official Secrets Act.
The very first RE military balloons were flown from this secret unit based in Wiarton in the 1860’s. The British attempted to divert local attention with various festivals including the now famous ‘Wiarton-Willy.

By the time the balloons were operationally ready for deployment, they had a good 15 years of proven ability gained at cost (Seaman Staines’s tragic loss) in those early flights over Canada West.

[ManifestDestiny]

PostFactum PostFactum:

Ok, guys don't be clowns, lets pick our asses from the computer and plant some trees, nature needs us

I own a landscaping company last year 2009 (which was a bad year) my company planted about 3000 trees and bushes.

[ManifestDestiny]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

You have to dig deeper on Wiki.
They kept the Canada West Detachment out the spotlight due to the Official Secrets Act.
The very first RE military balloons were flown from this secret unit based in Wiarton in the 1860’s. The British attempted to divert local attention with various festivals including the now famous ‘Wiarton-Willy.

By the time the balloons were operationally ready for deployment, they had a good 15 years of proven ability gained at cost (Seaman Staines’s tragic loss) in those early flights over Canada West.

Sorry guy its your claim, its your responsibilty to provide the link. I would like to beleive you but no link its just hearsay.

[Akhenaten]

$1:

we are led to believe that the lumber companies want to strip the earth of all trees. Yeah that would be smart THEY WOULD BE OUT OF WORK! AND THEN CANT MAKE MONEY!

No there's more trees in the US now because you buy more from us than you cut down and you've been very active at replanting....an action you would've sneered at as crazed environmental activism if you were around at the time.

So this article is about replanting trees and that's what the US has done ...and that's why they have more trees now. A combination of cutting them down less and planting many many more. Sounds illogical I know but....

[ManifestDestiny]

Akhenaten Akhenaten:

$1:

To Ahkenaten - Why did you choose the "heretic" pharaoh's name as a moniker? Just curious.

No there's more trees in the US now because you buy more from us than you cut down and you've been very active at replanting....an action you would've sneered at as crazed environmental activism if you were around at the time.

So this article is about replanting trees and that's what the US has done ...and that's why they have more trees now. A combination of cutting them down less and planting many many more. Sounds illogical I know but....

Point well taken. Was thinking this myself and I am looking into it.

[EyeBrock]

ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

You have to dig deeper on Wiki.
They kept the Canada West Detachment out the spotlight due to the Official Secrets Act.
The very first RE military balloons were flown from this secret unit based in Wiarton in the 1860’s. The British attempted to divert local attention with various festivals including the now famous ‘Wiarton-Willy.

By the time the balloons were operationally ready for deployment, they had a good 15 years of proven ability gained at cost (Seaman Staines’s tragic loss) in those early flights over Canada West.

Sorry guy its your claim, its your responsibilty to provide the link. I would like to beleive you but no link its just hearsay.

We'll just have to keep it as an 'Official Secret' then eh? Happy New Year!

[ManifestDestiny]

Akhenaten Akhenaten:

$1:

To Ahkenaten - Why did you choose the "heretic" pharaoh's name as a moniker? Just curious.

No there's more trees in the US now because you buy more from us than you cut down and you've been very active at replanting....an action you would've sneered at as crazed environmental activism if you were around at the time.

So this article is about replanting trees and that's what the US has done ...and that's why they have more trees now. A combination of cutting them down less and planting many many more. Sounds illogical I know but....

I found this it does not help your theory

$1:

In contemporary times, the boreal forest has suffered little deforestation, defined as the permanent conversion of forest area to non-forest due to activities associated with agriculture, urban or recreational development, oil and gas development, and flooding for hydroelectric projects. In Alberta, the province with the largest oil and gas industry, more trees are cut for agriculture or oil and gas exploration than for timber.[12] In eastern Canada, over 9,000 square kilometres of peatlands and forest have been flooded over the past four decades for hydroelectric projects. Even so, the statistics don’t measure afforestation and such deforestation as is occurring is a fraction of the boreal’s 3,100,000 square kilometres. Canada as a whole has 91% of the forest cover that existed at the dawn of European settlement. More deforestation has occurred outside the boreal region, in more southerly areas of the country.[12] The forest sector annually harvests approximately ½ of 1% of the region. However, this is not considered deforestation by some, given that provincial laws ensure that areas harvested by the forest sector are replanted or regenerated naturally.[12]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boreal_for ... orestation

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Canada as a whole has 91% of the forest cover that existed at the dawn of European settlement

I found this to be a amazing fact you would never think so listening to all of the doom and gloom from the media.

[herbie]

We just spray painted a lot of square blocks of trees different shades of green to fool people on Google Earth. They're not really logging sales, they're "contemporary art".
And those little 6" twigs... they're still counted as trees. There's twice as many trees on Vancouver Island as there used to be.
And the US counts the trees piled up at Home Depot too.

[Gunnair]

ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:

Gunnair Gunnair:

ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:

Yeah 1860 arial map yeah sure!

Are you purposely being thick?

Where was there any reference to 1860 in my post?

Was not refering to your post, was aimed at Hyack's previous post.

Are you purposely being self centered?

Another hard time using the forums. I understand.

[ManifestDestiny]

No hard time here looks like I handed everyone their asses.......loser

[Gunnair]

ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:

No hard time here looks like I handed everyone their asses.......loser

Yeah. Looked back over the last couple of pages. Sorted everyone out swinging that big sock full of wiki.

..........

[Gunnair]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

You have to dig deeper on Wiki.
They kept the Canada West Detachment out the spotlight due to the Official Secrets Act.
The very first RE military balloons were flown from this secret unit based in Wiarton in the 1860’s. The British attempted to divert local attention with various festivals including the now famous ‘Wiarton-Willy.

By the time the balloons were operationally ready for deployment, they had a good 15 years of proven ability gained at cost (Seaman Staines’s tragic loss) in those early flights over Canada West.

Sorry guy its your claim, its your responsibilty to provide the link. I would like to beleive you but no link its just hearsay.

We'll just have to keep it as an 'Official Secret' then eh? Happy New Year!

Oh my god, make it stop!

[Akhenaten]

ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:

No hard time here looks like I handed everyone their asses.......loser

<shrugs> Sure. I made a comment about American (U.S.) reforestation efforts and you gave me a wiki about the Canadian boreal forest. Good 'un.

[DerbyX]

http://www.globalforestwatch.org/englis ... /faqs.htm#

http://powerpoints.wri.org/gfw_2000/sld018.htm

Its not just about counting replanted trees because the vast majority of replanted trees are the most commercially valuable and they are planted over land that was a different arboreal ecosystem prior to logging. While MDs wiki link might be correct that 91% of Canada's boreal forest (not Canada's entire forest cover) he obviously didn't read this part of the quote: "More deforestation has occurred outside the boreal region, in more southerly areas of the country.", which means that the areas where the population lives has been more extensively deforested since that's where the cities are.

Its beyond stupid to suggest that there is anywhere near the level of forest cover since pro-European times as it ignores the obvious fact that all the cities we live in and the farms we use to grow our food used to be forests with the exception of the praries. What forests we do have that aren't threatened are like that simply because they are for the most part remote and economically less exploitable. Just as Hyacks map of Vancouver Island showed there is massive deforestation in populated areas and areas with high valuable timber.

Simply replanting trees isn't enough especially when dealing with old growth ecosystems or replanted larger areas that used to be mixed deciduous with almost single species coniferous.

[PostFactum]

ManifestDestiny ManifestDestiny:

PostFactum PostFactum:

Ok, guys don't be clowns, lets pick our asses from the computer and plant some trees, nature needs us

I own a landscaping company last year 2009 (which was a bad year) my company planted about 3000 trees and bushes.

we will build a monument!