In the rolling hills near Penobsquis, almost every tree has been cut down for as far as the eye can see.
Greying piles of stumps and woodchips occasionally clot the bare landscape, and a single strip of trees has been left to shade the small streams at the base of the hills.
The former forest in southern New Brunswick, now a series of clearcuts, is known to local conservationists as the Red Dragon.
And according to some scientists and conservationists, the Red Dragon, along with countless other tree-shorn areas in the province, contributed to the record flooding along the St. John River this spring.
Rapid warming Clearcuts on the hills near Penobsquis in southern New Brunswick have
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