Trees of Stillwater Lake

Trees of Stillwater Woods
Hardwoods	abrev	notes
Beech	Be	often diseased, may recover
Grey Birch	gB	a smallish tree, unusual, not much value
White Birch	wB	Paper Birch, rare, not in inventory
Yellow Birch	yB
Sugar Maple	sM	great maple syrup
Red Maple	rM
Striped Maple	stM	Moose Maple, no value
Alder	Al	Speckled Alder, no value but fixes nitrogen
White Oak	wO	Ours may be Red Oak, according to trees of Canada, rare
Pin Cherry	cH	sparse, no value
sumac or mountain ash		rare, no value - these two are different plants, I am not sure which is present here
Poplar		rare, little value - this may either Trembling or Largetooth Aspen
Softwoods
Balsam Fir	bF	Christmas Trees
Red Spruce	rS
Eastern Hemlock	eH
Eastern White Pine	wP
Larch	L	Tamarack, large samples have value, rot resistant
Eastern White Cedar	Ce	Arbor-Vitae, introduced species NB native

Stillwater Woods Subdivision

About Stillwater Woods subdivision

Our family is proposing to build a small subdivision on our land bought in 1972. This woodlot will contain some twenty homes built on land zoned to accommodate family businesses within the home. Our hope is that professional people with a family centered philosophy will reside here.

The woodlot will continue to be used by the families for heat and for shade. We hope to engage the services of Don Roscoe (solardon@chebucto.ca) to assist in sighting and construction of many of our homes. Don runs the Solar building course and is renowned across Canada for his work on ‘passive solar’ design.

It is our intention to move to a lakeshore home built by Don. This is our primary motivation for the subdivision. We estimate that Don’s designs cut back heat costs by 80% and that no cooling will be required in his designed homes. (This means heating with one cord of wood – which is the amount that is surplus from a building lot each year – sustainable.)

Our engineer and subdivision designer has been Soori from CKM Engineering. We believe that he has done a great design so that this subdivision will have minimal impact on the environment. We plan that the homes will blend into the surroundings and we will retain the forest nature of this area as much as the current rules will allow.

For some pictures around Stillwater Lake and of our garden see www.flickr.com/photos/frizzle-kelly/