During the 2025 field season, thanks to Forested Landscape Priority Place (FLPP) funding, Island Nature Trust was able to look at the importance of forested features on agricultural lands, specifically in terms of our local avian species at risk. Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum from Rustaret Farms kindly provided a testimonial to what forests mean to them and why they see value in retaining trees on their farm.
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Analysis of a Surveyor’s Fieldbooks Tells Us a Lot About the Island’s Pre-settlement Forests
A brief summary of Dr. Doug Sobey‘s (Research Associate of the Institute of Island Studies at UPEI) most recent work, the analysis of the fieldbooks of Alexander Anderson, the surveyor for Prince County from the 1830s to the 1870s.
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