For me, Thursday is Register/Reader day.
Fortunately, Anne Crossman sends me her column by email, from the Register.
This week, it was titled ‘The World is Changing’, with particular reference to the Long Lake fire (see post Short Stories). In a separate email, Anne forwarded a link to an email by Francis Campbell, published in the Register, August 28 ‘Nova Scotia government stops releasing glyphosate spraying details’.
‘ Looking out of the window of her Mount Hanley’ home on North Mountain in Annapolis County this week, Nina Newington said the goal of spraying glyphosate on a recovering clearcut is to kill hardwood trees to promote the growth of marketable softwood’.
‘The goal is to kill the most fire-resistant trees, leave the most fire-susceptible trees, the conifers, the softwood, the spruce and fir’, she said (see also, posts What is Truth?, A Green Future?, and SOOF Soup Sunday)
Meanwhile, the Bridgetown Reader is full of community events.
From page 1, ‘Play Music on the Porch Day (Centrelea), Getting to know Upper Clements trails, Lawrencetown Baptist Church invites you to a quiet place’.
If the Annapolis County citizen wants to understand their landscape and the actions of both government and industry. There needs to be a closer relationship between these agencies and the technological/educational resources available at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS). I see some evidence of change (e.g. the quality of the Long Lake fire extent mapping).
More could be done by mapping the quality and extent of management practices that impact our landscape — forestry, agriculture, mining, access to infrastructure, and water quality. This would bring technology and geographic science to the day-to-day landscape management. At the same time, it would support the ‘creative rural economy’.
Let us learn the hard lesson.
‘Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive’.
Charlotte Bronte from Jane Eyre. quoted on page 1, The Bridgetown Reader, August 29, 2025
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Anne Crossman for providing access to electronic media.
Edward added the graphics and researched the links.
Reference
Francis Campbell, ‘Nova Scotia government stops glyphosate spraying details’, Published Chronicle Herald, August 28, 2025
Ernest Blair Experiment 