TREPA

There will be a peaceful demonstration Sunday Nov 29th from 11 am to 2 pm in New France. (MEET AT CARLETON STORE at 9:30 to follow someone to the site!)

This is to bring attention to the clearcuts scheduled on the Crown lands bounded by Fourth Lake Flowage to the north, the Tobeatic Wilderness Area to the east, the Napier river to the south and a combination of the Silver River Wilderness Area and private lands to the west.

This is prime moose country. It’s also a region that’s a buffer to our UNESCO designated biosphere which we are at risk of losing as it’s the LAW to have a buffer zone (where some of the clearcuts are planned). Bring a 6 ft scarf, or stick or rope to help form a human chain.

Let sandracphinney@gmail.com know if you wish to take part.

Pickerel are here to stay, and more people need to appreciate that they are very edible.  The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq – Mi’kmaw Conservation Group’s Chain Pickerel Cookbook is now out.  It is available on the Mi’kmaw Conservation Group website: https://mikmawconservation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/CMM_ChainPickerelCookbook_Final.pdf.

Happy fishing and happy eating!  Throw in a few smallmouth bass, as well.  Both species are introduced invasives.

See link for more information.

https://mailchi.mp/cc46f3fcd805/global-bird-rescue-8037192?e=c3deeea5ab

This is a very interesting and informative video. Created by a flight simulator and Google images it makes you feel like you are really there. Quite clever.

The origin of the term “Tree hugger”

The first tree huggers were 294 men and 69 women belonging to the Bishnois branch of Hinduism, who, in 1730, died while trying to protect the trees in their village from being turned into the raw material for building a palace. They literally clung to the trees, while being slaughtered by the foresters. But their action led to a royal decree prohibiting the cutting of trees in any Bishnoi village. And now those villages are virtual wooded oases amidst an otherwise desert landscape.

Not only that, the Bishnois inspired the Chipko movement (chipko means “to cling” in Hindi) that started in the 1970s, when a group of peasant women in the Himalayan hills of northern India threw their arms around trees designated to be cut down. Within a few years, this tactic, also known as tree satyagraha, had spread across India, ultimately forcing reforms in forestry and a moratorium on tree felling in Himalayan regions.

Photo: The village women of the Chipko movement in the early 70’s in the Garhwal Hills of India, protecting the trees from being cut down.