Youth on Bonnington Green team learn about interactions between logging, wildlife, watersheds, types of trees, fire interface, etc.

1. A trip to Brent's woodlot

6. What was the day about?
We learned about how Brent's woodlot is part of the Smokey Creek Watershed.
It's a pretty small watershed compared to Fall's Creek, but important!
People need to know that their water is clean and drinkable. Brent leaves a
100m buffer zone where he doesn't cut down anything by the creek. We went
in there and saw a lot of wildlife trees, habitat for bears, really wet ground and
learned how to read a contour map.
Brent told us about different ways to log - clear cut and selective harvesting.
He tries to cut in the best way so that he won't affect the environment as much
as a big cut. He works with experts who help him decide what trees are safe to
cut, without hurting animals. It's important for him to be ethical about the
choices he makes. He considers the wildlife, water, forest and native plants.
It was very fun and WET! We learned a lot!