{"id":58,"date":"2022-07-03T18:18:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T18:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2022-07-03T18:21:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T18:21:50","slug":"forest-land-capability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/land-base\/forest-land-capability\/","title":{"rendered":"Forest Land Capability"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>1. Potential Natural Vegetation Types<\/strong><br \/>\nIn <a href=\"https:\/\/cdnsciencepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1139\/er-2021-0042\">Natural disturbance regimes for implementation of ecological forestry: a review and case study from Nova Scotia, Canada<\/a> by D.A. Maclean et al., Environmental Reviews 4 August 2021, Table 3, 91.2 percent of the area of NS is Potentially Forest; non forest is 8.8% (4.5% freshwater. 4.3% Other including barrens, open wetlands, salt marshes, coastal beaches, dunes, urban areas). So \u00a0allowing \u00a0for seasonal and permanent settlements of indigenous peoples, pre-columbian forest cover in NS was likely circa 90% of the area.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong> 2. Maps<\/strong> From<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/databasin.org\/datasets\/03503e29b5174537a063f20b37f7525b\/\">Canada Land Inventory &#8211; Land Capability for Forestry, Nova Scotia<\/a> (Interactive Map)<br \/>\nTitle: Canada Land Inventory &#8211; Land Capability for Forestry, Nova Scotia<br \/>\nCredits: Government of Canada,National Archives of Canada,Visual and Sound Archives Division<br \/>\nPublication Date: 1985<br \/>\nPublisher: Government of Canada, National Archives of Canada, Visual and Sound Archives Division<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LandCap1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-62\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LandCap1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"891\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LandCap1.jpg 891w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LandCap1-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/LandCap1-768x605.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 891px) 100vw, 891px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGo to the <a href=\"https:\/\/databasin.org\/datasets\/03503e29b5174537a063f20b37f7525b\/\">Interactive Map<\/a> to enlarge a particular area.A compiled map for all of NS is also available <a href=\"http:\/\/nsforestnotes.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/CanadaLandInventroyNS-scaled.jpg\">here<\/a> (3867 x 2535 px), and is shown below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landCap2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landCap2-1024x671.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"419\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landCap2-1024x671.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landCap2-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landCap2-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landCap2-1536x1007.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/landCap2-2048x1342.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Potential Natural Vegetation Types In Natural disturbance regimes for implementation of ecological forestry: a review and case study from Nova Scotia, Canada by D.A. Maclean et al., Environmental Reviews 4 August 2021, Table 3, 91.2 percent of the area &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/land-base\/forest-land-capability\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/64"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}