Eco Forestry

Livingston was awarded by the Nova Scotia Government in 2008 Woodlot Owner of the Year-Eastern Region. http://www.gov.ns.ca/NATR/extension/woya/pdf/EasternHandout08.pdf Neal also founded, and operates since 1984 Black River Maple Products a maple syrup farm.

Livingston was the first landowner on Cape Breton Island to have his woodlot FSC (www.fsc.org) certified, an international green certification system. This was done with a group of Nova Scotia small woodlot owners called Nagaya. These woodlots use closed canopy, non-clear cut, non-chemical methods of forestry in the Acadian forests of Eastern Canada. Livingston offers FSC certified lumber for sale from his woodlot. See www.acadianforest.com