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Tapping Into the High-End Birch Syrup Market Wisdom in the Woods WAM to tackle province-wide firewood safety concerns By Sheilla Jones property damage. In 2011, according to the Office of the The growing market for firewood in Manitoba has Fire Commissioner (OFC), there were 60 house fires in been a boon for woodlot owners, but it comes with an Manitoba that were the direct result of chimney fires and alarming down-side. More and more people who are safety issues with fireplaces and woodstoves. That buying firewood don’t seem to have a basic number, said Bedford, is likely higher, since there are understanding of the safe use of firewood and fireplaces. always a significant number of house fires where the “The knowledge about using wood stoves has really cause cannot be determined with certainty. dropped,” said Murray Bedford, a former inspector with WAM is taking the problem seriously. With a grant the Office of the Fire Commissioner in Brandon. “Too from the Manitoba Community Services Council, WAM many people don’t have a clue about wood seasoning is developing a firewood safety program to address and creosote.” safety issues. The new program, said WAM president The fallout from a lack of understanding about Irene de Graaf, will include hands-on workshops in firewood and fireplace safety issues is injury and Continued on page 2 Tapping into the high-end birch syrup market By Sheilla Jones The birch syrup business is hot, intense, and sweet, and timing is everything when most of the work is concentrated into the few weeks in the spring when the sap is running. Glenda and Rory Hart are in the second year of their birch syrup business, The Canadian Birch Company, on their 47 acres of birch trees in Grand Marais, and they’ve had a steep learning curve. “We tried the first year to make our own syrup,” said Glenda, the featured speaker at the WAM AGM in April, “and we boiled it for days. We gave up. We said we can’t do it without the right equipment and we don’t have enough trees.” That prompted the Harts to buy the lot of large birch trees next door, and invest in the high-end ultra-violet pasteurizer and reverse osmosis equipment needed to reduce the fresh-tasting, pale blue sap into golden brown syrup. Timing is critical for sap collection and for processing. “We have a very small tapping window,” said Glenda, “between the trunk thawing out and the roots thawing out. And we stop tapping the moment the buds on a tree pop. Whenever the buds pop, we’re done, because the sap changes right away and turns cloudy.” She noted that all the trees don’t produce buds at the same time, so tapping can continue in different parts of Continued on page 9 Glenda Hart answers questions from Bob Austman about the pellet fuel-fed evaporator in The Canadian Birch Company “sugar shack” during a WAM tour of the operation in Grand Marais in April. April/May 2013 1 WAM tackles firewood safety Continued from front page Winnipeg, rural Manitoba and First Nations, and a Woodlot Association of Manitoba comprehensive and easy to use website that will be a Board of Directors 2013/2014 clearing house of information on firewood and firewood safety. President: Irene de Graaf, Narol, (204) 661-2068 Ernie Reimer, who runs a busy firewood yard on Secretary-Treasurer: Highway 44 near Tyndall, said his business has more than doubled in the past three years. He anticipates •Allan Webb, Stonewall (204) 467-8648 selling two-thousand cords of firewood this year. Past President: Len Riding, St. Malo “The increase in firewood sales,” said Reimer, “can be Directors: attributed to two groups. One group of new buyers is •Mike James, Winnipeg, Beaconia older people who used to cut their own wood but don't •Bob Austman, Beausejour want that task anymore. The second group is people who •Tom Dykstra, Balmoral are just starting to use firewood. This group may be •Bruce MacLeod, Winnipeg people who have, perhaps, inherited a grandparent's •Louise Matthewson, Gimli cottage or want to replicate the time when their parents had a wood stove or a wood-burning fireplace, and that's •Clint Pinder, Stony Mountain where you see the knowledge gap.” •Chris Matthewson, Oakbank Bedford, who recently retired as a fire inspector, said people who are new at using woodstoves have got to The Manitoba Woodlot is published six times educate themselves. annually as a service to the membership of the Woodlot “One of the biggest problems is that people don’t Association of Manitoba (WAM). know how to build a fire correctly. When I was a kid, the WAM seeks to promote an understanding of stove was stoked up first thing with an open damper to sustainable woodlot management, increase income and get it burning hot. Then the damper was shut down for a employment potential for the woodlot sector, promote slower burn. You have to heat up the chimney or you’ll the use of woodlot products in the place of non- get creosote. Even with higher efficiency stoves and renewable and imported products, and develop human better chimneys, you still get creosote if you don’t warm resources in woodlot management. up the chimney.” WAM represents the interests of our members within Firewood seller Clint Pinder said that at least some the Canadian Federation of Woodlot Owners (CFWO). firewood buyers are asking the right questions. The CFWO makes those interests known to forestry “One of the questions I get from a safety standpoint,” ministers at both levels of government. said Pinder of Firewood Manitoba in Stony Mountain, “is WAM also has a representative to the Manitoba about what causes creosote.” Model Forest, another organization that promotes The WAM firewood safety program, said de Graaf, will sustainable management of Manitoba’s wooded areas. be developed over the next few months and rolled out this fall. WAM is a non-profit organization led by a volunteer Board of Directors, which meets monthly. Our Annual General Meeting (AGM) is held each year before the end of March and is open to all members in good standing. THE MANITOBA WOODLOT Editor: Sheilla Jones Email: [email protected] Website: manitobawoodlotassociation.com Woodlot Association of Manitoba 900 Corydon Ave., Winnipeg, MB R3M 0Y4 2 The Manitoba Woodlot WAM adds to consultation on locating transmission lines By Sheilla Jones The Woodlot Association of Manitoba was at the table in early May for the roll-out of Manitoba Hydro’s pilot project on siting transmission lines in southern Manitoba. “This is important for woodlot owners,” said WAM president Irene de Graaf, who participated in the consultation. “It’s important when planning the location of power lines to know where there are managed woodlots and to avoid them.” The draft Alternate Corridor Model has nothing to do with the controversial Bipole III transmission line, noted de Graaf, but rather a way to help Manitoba Hydro understand the many issues to consider before controversy arises when planning where to run new lines. The workshops looked at the The diagram used in the Manitoba Hydro consultations illustrates all the issues routing methodology developed by going into the "hopper" that lead to a preferred route for a hydro-electric transmission line. (EPRI-GTC Siting Methodology) the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Georgia Transmission Corporation (GTC), they are built upon the foundation of this work.” with focus on the three key areas of geographical and Organizations participating in the Natural Environment geotechnical issues, community issues, and natural workshop included WAM, Nature Conservancy, Ducks environment considerations. Unlimited, Manitoba Lodges & Outfitters Association, Participants in the geographical workshop, for instance, Seine-Rat River Conservation District, Department of noted routing features such as wetlands and the 100-year Fisheries and Oceans, Bird Studies Canada, and flood plain, while natural environment workshop Manitoba Conservation (Forest Management and participants pointed out the need to identify areas of high- Development, Parks and Natural Areas Branch). quality wildfowl habitat and the need to avoid woodlots under management plans. Maggie Tisdale, senior environmental specialist with Manitoba Hydro, said the input from the consultation will be used to follow up directly with specialists for more detail in developing the Alternate Corridor Model. “Once this is complete,” Tisdale advised in an email thanking participants, “we will proceed with testing the model on upcoming projects to visualize the alternate corridors that the model produces.” Tisdale said that, at this stage, Manitoba Hydro would “invite all participants back to revisit our discussion on how the next steps of the routing methodology unfold as April/May 2013 3 4 The Manitoba Woodlot WAM Board of Directors 2013/2014 President: Irene de Graaf, Narol Secretary-Treasurer: •Allan Webb, Stonewall Past President: Len Riding, St. Malo Directors: •Mike James, Winnipeg, Beaconia (WAM rep on MBMF board) •Bob Austman, Beausejour (first vice-president, CFWO) •Tom Dykstra, Balmoral •Bruce MacLeod, Winnipeg •Louise Matthewson, Gimli (alternate on MBMF board) WAM board members, L-R, back: Clint Pinder, Allan Webb, Len Riding, •Clint Pinder, Stony Mountain Bob Austman, Mike James, Tom Dykstra. L-R, front: Bruce MacLeod, •Chris Matthewson, Oakbank Irene de Graaf, Louise Matthewson, Chris Matthewson. Lively discussions at WAM AGM The WAM AGM was, at times, both lively and to meet demand for dimensional lumber. informative. Along with reports from president Irene de Carl Smith, president of the Manitoba Model Forest, Graaf and newsletter editor Sheilla Jones, members were spoke briefly about the impact of government funding introduced to the Manitoba Forestry Association’s new cuts to forestry and MBMF. Private Land Resource Planning woodlot management “We’re reinventing ourselves,” said Smith, “and plans by MFA forester Andrea Kraayeveld.
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