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We have forty days and forty nights to comment on the 5-year PHP (Port Hawkesbury Paper) harvest plans under Nova Scotia’s new OBFM (Outcomes Based Forest Management). There is no mention in the various documents of the Forest Environmental Assessment and the related Forest Stewardship Guide. The EA would provide comprehensive descriptions of the harvesting plans and much more time, process and scope for public input than afforded by the current process without an EA. Commented Lahey in 2018: ” If done properly, with openness and transparency and based on strong science, it [The Forest EA] will reduce the pressure for intense scrutiny by DNR or the public of individualized harvesting decisions.” The plan to include an EA provided a large part of the trust created by Prof. Lahey and that prompted folks skeptical about the Triad to support the Lahey recommendations overall. As commented recently by Nina Newington, “Lahey’s triad model is a tradeoff…The bargain is not being kept.”
Subscribers to the Harvest Plan Map Viewer notifications learned from e-mail #1 on Aug 1, 2024/4:23 p.m of the implementation of a pilot project on “Outcomes-based forestry” by Port Hawkesbury Paper in partnership with the Department of Natural Resources and Renewables. Read More