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Friends of the Muskoka Watershed begins calcium restoration field study

October 22, 2019 by pg

In August, Friends of the Muskoka Watershed met with Dr. Shaun Watmough, Professor and Director of the Trent School of the Environment and a leading expert on calcium decline, and four of Dr. Watmough’s graduate students, to officially start the collection of field data for the applied research component of the ASHMuskoka three year project.

Twenty, 10 x 10 meter plots were laid out in three local OMSPA (Ontario Maple Syrup Producers Association) sugar bushes marking 60 plots in total. In each plot, leaf litter, saplings, foliage from the canopy of leaves high up on the trees, and soil samples were collected.

“We are thrilled to be working with Dr. Watmough to determine the effect of residential wood ash on forest health.” states Dr. Shakira Azan, Project Lead.

Dr. Azan continues, “With the findings from this research, we hope to identify a wood ash dosage that would make a positive difference in forests with low calcium concentrations.”

In addition to these samples, last March, Dr. Azan visited all three sugar bushes and took samples of maple sap from tagged trees.

Friends of the Muskoka Watershed, in collaboration with Trent University and volunteers, plan to distribute the wood ash collected thus far in all 60 plots in late October.

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