We finished 2023 on a high note after a huge year with some significant changes. Overall, 2023 was a whirlwind, with the launch of our Hemlock Conservation Initiative, new species at risk detections, and rapid growth of our affiliate organization, the NS Working Woodlands Trust.

The MCFC is seeking to procure trail construction for the development of a network of accessible and footpath-style trails in the Stave Lake region of the MCFC license area, between Maitland Bridge and South Milford in Annapolis Co.

We have new harvest blocks up for comment on the Province’s Harvest Plan Map Viewer (HPMV). They will be open for comment until September 25th, and we encourage our members, and members of the community to provide feedback.

In efforts to build our operating capacity and market opportunities, we’re seeking proposals to research and analyze ways to help build efficiencies for MCFC harvest operations.

An exciting new opportunity for the MCFC and the local community, we’re taking the next steps to start planning construction for our backcountry-style walk-in campground.

We have new harvest blocks up for comment on the Province’s Harvest Plan Map Viewer (HPMV). They will be open for comment until September 13th, and we encourage our members, and members of the community to provide feedback.

The MCFC is seeking bids for pre-commercial thinning work on our Crown license area. We have 84 hectares to be treated in total, all within 15min of Highway 8, adjacent to the communities of Kempt, Maitland Bridge and South Milford.

Applications are now closed - thanks to all that applied! We’re looking for a summer Community Outreach Intern! Are you passionate about Nova Scotia forestry with a knowledge of design, marketing and outreach? We’d love to have you join us this summer.

Greetings from the depths of winter! If you can believe it, the MCFC signed our original pilot project agreement 5 years ago, on January 31, 2015. Whether you're new to the MCFC or a long-time supporter, have a look back on our early days on the website as a great reminder of how far we've come.

We’ve been very busy this fall speaking, hosting and participating in numerous conferences and events. In October, we sent our General Manager, Mary Jane Rodger to the Land Trust Alliance Rally in Raleigh, North Carolina

From a desk in downtown Toronto, I write this as I am wrapping up the final few months of a Masters of Forest Conservation program at the University of Toronto, missing the Acadian forest and rural Nova Scotian lifestyle. It’s one thing to study what you love at a computer, in the classroom, on field trips and in labs, but another to be fully inundated day after day, watching the forest change with the season.

It’s been awhile, but we have new harvest blocks up for comment on the Province’s Harvest Plan Map Viewer (HPMV). They will be open for comment until November 30, and we encourage our members, and members of the community to provide feedback.

After departing university and plunging into a career, I find there are only so many chances to meet with those you might consider experts or ‘gurus’ in your field. Luckily, last month we had the opportunity to host a leader in Acadian forest silviculture, Dr. Robert Seymour.

According to a study released by Avian Conservation and Ecology is estimated that between 616 thousand to 2.09 million nests are destroyed by industrial forest harvesting during bird breeding season in Canada per year.

Thank you to all our new members who responded to our membership drive last month. We’ll be sending out your certificates very shortly. If you’re not yet a member, you can join anytime on our website. Remember, the more members we have the more influential we can be in promoting ecological forestry for Nova Scotia.

We hope everyone had a happy and relaxing holiday and we wish you a productive start to 2019. This year has already been a busy one for us, as we build a preliminary 5-year business plan for the Department of Lands & Forestry. We're looking forward to what 2019 will bring, and see it as a year of big developments for the MCFC and forestry in the province overall.

With the fall now upon us, the MCFC is looking ahead to October and the beginning of the next chapter for our organization. As usual, this summer was quite busy, we hosted numerous events including a wild foods workshop, forest research tour, old growth forest tour and of course, our forest market and fair.

It’s crazy to think that my second summer working as a Summer Intern with the MCFC has come to a close! I am so thankful to have been given another season in (as I would call it) the best job in the world.

As many of you know the MCFC has now gone into a year long extension of our three-year lease on crown land as a pilot project with the Department of Lands and Forestry (previously DNR). Now that the Lahey Report has come out, we will be able to go into talks with the Department of Lands and Forestry about a long-term lease.

Happy summer to all our members and the extended MCFC network. Another spring has come and gone here at the MCFC and unfortunately, we seem to have lost track of time and missed our spring newsletter. Oops! We hope you will forgive us.