BODY {font-family=”Arial”} TT {font-family=”Courier New”} BLOCKQUOTE.CITE {padding-left:0.5em; margin-left:0; margin-right:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; border-left:”solid 2″;} SPAN.TABOOHEADER {display=none} March 10th, 2009 By GRAHAM FORBES, For The Daily Gleaner http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/search/article/597808 To some, the University of New Brunswick woodlot represents recreation, green space, quality of life and ecological services. Photo: REPLACING TREES: New stores at the Corbett Centre can be [...]
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Hypocrisy at the woodlot
Posted in Big Box Stores, Forest Research, Green Space, Public Consultation, Road, Species, UNB, Wetlands on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
CROAKER’S CROSSING AT CORBETT CENTRE WILL DRAW A LINE IN THE ROAD FOR BIG-BOX RETAILERS
Posted in Action!, Events, Road, Species, Wetlands on November 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Fredericton, N.B., Canada October 31, 2008 In the aftermath of the so-called “froggy carnage”, The Friends of the UNB Woodlot will put several hundred popsicle-stick white crosses along a section of Knowledge Park Drive near the Corbett Centre retail complex. Each cross will remember the needless death of these small wetland frogs [...]
UNB Woodlot Rant
Posted in Big Box Stores, Road, Wetlands on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just drove home in the dark on the new paved road that goes through the UNB Woodlot. This new road is littered with the bodies of dozens of dead and dying frogs (species unknown) plus many live frogs awaiting the same vehicular fate. What a sad state. I had mentioned to a friend the [...]
May 1st in the UNB Woodlot
Posted in Big Box Stores, Road on May 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Development Gone Bad
Posted in Road, Wetlands on August 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
After an afternoon rainfall, Mark D’Arcy investigates the mud and silt polluting Corbett Brook from the road construction through the UNB Woodlot.
CBC: N.B. investigating source of Corbett Brook sediment
Posted in Road, Wetlands on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The Department of Environment is investigating whether development projects in Fredericton are the cause of sediment getting into a brook. Read more…
A Chocolate Brown Corbett Brook
Posted in Road, Wetlands on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Several UNB Woodlot Watchers reported a muddy Corbett Brook near Alison Boulevard to the Department of Environment in July 2007. Changes in the colour and siltation of the brook are suspected to be the result of land clearing for the road currently being built through the UNB Woodlot. The Department of Environment has yet to [...]
Replanting Trees
Posted in Events, Road on June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Woodlot Watchers planted trees Saturday, June 23, where clear-cutting has begun for road construction at Kimble Drive and Alison Boulevard. Weekend construction on the road did not stop for the action. This action was taken since UNB has failed to respond to the group. UNB President John McLaughlin said on Earth Day in April that [...]
Fredericton Citizens Voice Opposition to Conversion of City Natural Space for Big Box Development
Posted in Green Space, Road on April 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Conservation Council of New Brunswick News Release For immediate publication April 11, 2007 Fredericton Citizens Voice Opposition to Conversion of City Natural Space for Big Box Development Fredericton – Plans to develop the UNB Woodlot, the wooded area across from Regent Mall, are being met with concern and resistance from Fredericton citizens including those who [...]
