Stewardship

Northern Pulp is dedicated to sustainable forestry and silviculture. We voluntarily practice non-declining inventory management across all our lands. Our forest management and regeneration practices ensure the long-term viability of our business and the forestry sector in North and North central Nova Scotia.

  • We follow multiple international environmental/forest management standards – standards developed by scientists, environmentalists, and foresters
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  • Our scientific-based forest management plans ensure perpetual wood supply for operations
  • We harvest less than 3 percent of the trees we manage each year
  • Our management plan decisions are supported by years of academic and industry research

Forestry management practices

  • Our structured, systematic approach to forest operations begins with developing a site specific management plan that ensures:
    • Efficient, responsible harvesting
    • Protection of all values on site
    • Site is set for regeneration
    • Regeneration
  • We are audited to numerous third party certification systems all of which use forest sustainability as the guiding principle. This ensures our plans are executed to the highest standards
  • We allow a two-year post-harvest natural regeneration phase on each harvest site to maximize the success of re-planting

Regeneration

For Northern Pulp, planting trees is just as important to us as harvesting. For over 40 years, we have been managing forests sustainably, and our regeneration program is an integral part of our operations.

  • We assess every site after two years of natural growth and determine if planting is required to achieve full regeneration
  • We plant native seedlings grown at our own nursery
  • Re-planted sites are monitored and checked regularly throughout the first 15 years of regeneration to ensure growth quality
  • We operate a seedling nursery (comprised of 27 greenhouses) and tree orchards in Debert, Nova Scotia, with the capability of producing in excess of 10 million seedlings annually
  • Northern Pulp's nursery has been growing seedlings since 1980, and in 2009, the total output exceeded 162 million seedlings
  • Northern Pulp is the only Nova Scotia forestry company to grow every seedling we plant
  • Our Debert nursery supplies our entire planting operation as well as other forestry companies in the Province
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