I took around 300 pictures and will post every single one during the next 12 hours!!!!
It's a beautiful area!!!!
Sunday, April 22, 2007
UNB AND THE CITY OF FREDERICTON ALL SET TO DESTROY THIS BEAUTY????
A person don't know what's truly going on until you see it with your own eyes!!! I was in that area all day and I'M BEAT!!!!
I took around 300 pictures and will post every single one during the next 12 hours!!!!
It's a beautiful area!!!!
I took around 300 pictures and will post every single one during the next 12 hours!!!!
It's a beautiful area!!!!
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TREES??
You Irving people are all alike.
Green dollar bills
What a shame.
I've never actually heard of the UNB woodlot until they started talking about cutting some of it down. Were people using it before?
No pinhead, because you never heard of it nobody ever went there. They were waiting for you to hear about it, now we can go!
It is F'ton's best kept non-secret. Miles of mixed use forestry/recreational woods and it actually (not like walking through Irving silviculture). The attractions are the wetlands (and associated birds and other wildlife), the Corbett Brook, Corbett Caves, and Corbett Falls. The old hardwood stands are beautiful and you can find owls. Get out to this place and then let UNB know what you think about it being paved over for parking lots and more big box stores we don't need.
Can anybody else hear Big Yellow Taxi playing?
I'd rather see UNB make some money from this land and SLOW the tuition increases. Another 4.5% increase this year. The increases are always much higher than inflation.
So a few hundred people will have to find somewhere else to go for a walk/cross-country ski in the woods or take their dogs out for a walk. Poor babies. I don't care - I want to see the economy grow and UNB make some money other than from their students.
I can't believe 8:44 wrote that, thats disgusting to say.
Yeah, thats pretty funny. If you think cutting the woods down is going to lower tuition, I've got a bridge to sell you. There are already many low wage retail jobs available, more stores certainly won't grow the economy. One of Frederictons few features it can compete with globally for industry is its quality of life. Try finding a place like that in Toronto or southern ontario and you'll find a new development opening. Once Fredericton loses that it won't have anything to offer industry or people, which will mean even more people heading west.
Here in Moncton, we have two green areas like this that a huge number of citizens enjoy. One is Mapleton Park and the other is the Irishtown Nature Park.
Why would anyone think that by UNB cutting these trees down and selling the land this would ever amount to a reduction in tuition fees is beyoned comprehension. That would never happen. Keep the greenspaces and tell the University to cut from the top down to save the dollars needed. Just imagine the amount of wasted dollars spent by this university (all of them do it). Run it like a business and cut back.
8:44 is living in another universe if he thinks that clear-cutting translates into lower tuition.Illogical thinking.Scary.
Wow, are you last few posters not able to read? I did not write that it would lower tuition or result in tuition reductions. I stated that I'd like to see the increases slowed. There's a huge difference.
A bunch of trees for people to go for walks with their dogs or go skiing doesn't translate into any money for the economy. You can try to argue "Yes it does, people will move to Fredericton for the environment" but come on, be realistic, a patch of green won't be a dealbreaker for people to move here. Retail jobs are still jobs - they are not all minimum wage positions and tax dollars are tax dollars, whether from employed people or from the businesses themselves. It's not like we live in the middle of NYC where treed areas are rare.
12:15 does not get it.
so you're comparing fredericton to NYC, gee maybe we should pave the whole country.
I don't think that it is such a big deal as everyone is making it. Yes the woodlot is great for walking and recreational activities. But it also serves a purpose to UNB as revenue and learning. The woodlot is used by the students for school projects and developing sound management practices. In case you haven't realized it, UNB has been performing silviculture techniques like cutting and thinning for some time now. I'm sure the manager of the UNB woodlot will not destroy the ecological integrety of the UNB woodlot.
ok putting a highway through there is diffinitly going to disrupt everything, how can you compare 500 vehicles on a road a day to going in there with a harvester and cutting a few trees, forest management, etc. You don't need a university degree to figure out that this is going to disrupt everything.
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