“A lot of stuff is manageable if you're smart and you do the right thing, but you can't control a hurricane with winds up to 176 km/hr.”
This photo which is stated to show damage on Mt. Thom caused by Fiona, quickly went viral. FACEBOOKAn ariel photo of Mt. Thom went viral this week and for good reason. The image posted by Pat O’Shea was shared more than 3,500 times and shows the forest on the mountain blown down like prairie grass. Large swaths of forest are decimated.Marshall Bateman is the owner of ABL Timber Ltd. and has a number of woodlots in Pictou County.
He said he was particularly sad to see a woodlot he had maintained with Acadian forest spruce, hemlock and yellow birch get destroyed by the storm. The hardest hit areas seem to have been in Pictou County and Antigonish County and parts of Guysborough County, he said. Some sections of Colchester and Cumberland counties also suffered forestry losses.Many people keep their woodlots carefully managed as retirement savings. For some, that lifetime of investment was gone in a matter of hours.
In 2003, there were three operating pulp mills in the province: Port Hawkesbury, Northern Pulp and Bowater. Now there is just Port Hawkesbury. He suspects over the coming months, the price woodlot owners receive for their wood will drop as the market becomes flooded and there will come a point when sawmills and other buyers simply won’t be able to take anymore.
He encourages landowners to have a professional come in and assess the damage to start with and then establish a plan. Some places won’t have enough trees down to justify the cost of bringing in machinery and trucking it to a sawmill.“That's going to be in the way of cleaning up your logs. It’s just going to be just left there I would assume.”
The initial assessment shows there are areas, particularly in the northern area of the province with large swaths of trees down.
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