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Dainty Tract York Regional Forest Ontario Canada

Dainty and Clarke Tracts

Together, Dainty & Clarke have 11.5 km of trails. These tracts are good place to watch a hardwood forest grow and evolve. Ailing pines were removed and replaced with hardwoods in  1985. Make a wide loop in each tract, together making a 7.9 km hike. This mostly flat hike is good for families. These tracts are less well-known, and therefore a bit more secluded. Plan on 2.5- 3.5 hours depending upon pace. A parking lot is located along McCowan at Dainty Tract.

York Country Forests

In the nineteenth century the Whitchurch landscape was subjected to heavy timbering to clear the land for cultivation. Large volumes of Ontario’s softwood forest was shipped to Britain and the United States as square timber. Hardwoods were typically burned in piles to make potash. With the forest cleared, farming could commence.

Most farming activity was supported only for a few decades, the land had given out by the 1890s.

Large areas of wasteland were created in the light sandy soils of Whitchurch Township and elsewhere in southern Ontario. The mistake: to farm the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Realizing the problem, many municipalities like Whitchurch paid landowners 25 cents a tree to start reforesting roadsides and gullies. In 1910 the York County council passed a resolution to consider the problem, but not much was done until 1920. By 1924 an agreement was struck between the County of York and the Province of Ontario where the County would purchase land, and Provincial foresters would plant and manage the forest.

“The open fields had become blowsand deserts, drifting sands had blocked roads, the split rail fences were soon buried, and on dry windy days

the whitchurch sky was yellow from blowing sand.” 

“Drinking water began to dry up and the number of birds, deer, fish, and other animals dwindled.”

“With the top soil gone, there was not enough available nutrient in the soil to support even grass.”In hilly areas, the light soils were readily removed by water flow, the ground being gouged into ever deepening gullies. Sand-filled flash flood waters became common for every one downstream in the spring, while the same patch became a parched, waterless bake oven in the summer sun...Whitchurch had become a wasteland...

Reforestation Begins York County purchased the first property for reforestation in 1922 from Ted Hollidge. It was 197 acres and cost a little more than $4,000. Trees were planted in 1924. Part of the deal was that Ted himself be the first caretaker for the emerging Vivian Forest. 

An additional 400 acres were purchased in 1924. By 1930, 710 acres of land had been reforested; by 1938, an additional 1,166 acres. A little more than 60 years after the first purchase, the public forests across York Region (York County became York Region in 1971) totaled 4,900 acres.

In the present we repeat the bad history of the past. The trees are cut on regular basis as if they are just objects with no  respect for the nature. The name is forest management.

 The forests were managed through prescribed cuttings. Generally speaking, a third of the volume of the plantation is removed in the first thinning, and 10 years later it is again thinned. By the time of the final harvest, there are theoretically less than 200 trees per acre out of the original 800 or 1200 planted.

Prior to 1947, cutting resulted in only enough wood for internal needs and to supply a few local markets. For instance, in 1948 only 300 cords, or 25,000 cubic feet of wood were harvested from the forest.

These early sales proved unsatisfactory to the costs incurred. From 1949 onward, sales were in the form of pulpwood to the Ontario

Paper Company. Second cut produced larger material by 1957, in which sales were focused toward product for pole barn construction. A profit was finally being realized, 33 years after the first tree was plante.

So again the land and the forests and used for profit only with no respect for either of them.

The former York County forests were managed by the Ontario Department of Lands and Forests (now Ministry of Natural Resources) until 1998,

when The Regional Municipality of York assumed full management responsibility for the forest.They act like savages. It is a shame that the environment is used as profit making machine by a government of savages.

York Regional Forest system is comprised of 22 tracts totaling over 5,700 acres, in four of the nine towns and cities in York Region. Whitchurch- Stouffville, with 11 public forest tracts including new acquisitions, claims 52% of the forest system, or roughly 3,000 acres.

So the government is using the tax dollars to buy the land from the people where it plants trees that they let live only 10 years or less. And this is suppose to be good.

About 10 years ago the red pine in some area started to die out, generally called Red Pine. Decline associated with two pathogens; both are a form of root rot and not easily controlled. The moss covered remains of red pine stumps and

trunks are readily seen in areas of the forest. In recent years, the Region’s ash trees are under threat of being wiped out entirely as a result of the Emerald Ash Borer. All untreated ash trees are expected to die as a result of this infestation. Ashes represent 12% of the tree canopy cover in York Region, 8% in Whitchurch-Stouffville - this is devastating. Green slashes on trees are abound inthe forest, marking ash trees near the trail that are being removed.

Since old trees are removed only young trees are kept they do not know how to fight the diseases and cold and fungus.  So the are dying.

Solution. Stop using the forest as money making machine. The forest is a community of plants animals. The land is still used as the colonists used them when the arrived in North America. Kill destroy everything as if there is other planet to move onto.

The planified destruction of the Romanian Environment and Forest by Schweighofer Group

The group has 5 locations across Romania.
They have a detailed description of Romanian Forests and the declared intention to cut the Romanian Forests while preserving those in their country.
Here are links to the exact areas they plan to erase

https://www.schweighofer.at/fileadmin/files/all_ro/Ocol/2016/Localizare_suprafete_2016.pdf
https://www.schweighofer.at/fileadmin/files/all_ro/certificare/Rezumat_Public_plan_de_monitorizare_ian_2017.pdf

They keep record of every forest in Romania.
https://www.schweighofer.at/fileadmin/files/all_ro/certificare/PVRC_OS_Cascade_Empire_2017.pdf
Using the company Cascade Empire SRL they purchased forests of Romana which they log as there is no tomorrow.

http://saptamana.net/articol/7434-cascade-empire-proprietara-a-trei-munti-din-valcea-retrocedati-cu-acte-false

They own forests in Vilcea  which they got using illegal acts. Actively purchasing forested land that they are destroying with high diligence like is their own country buying politicians using the destruction of structures in former communist country for one of the largest theft in human history.

This foreign company registered as a small SRL
https://marketplace.fsc.org/details/23593

while the intentions are as bad as they can be. The weather in Romania is affected by the malefic effect of this company on the Romanian soil.

Here is the detail record of the forests they own or plan to erase from Romania. The arrogance of this company is incredible.

https://www.schweighofer.at/fileadmin/files/all_ro/certificare/PVRC_OS_Cascade_Empire_2017.pdf

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