by Nina Newington

Forest around Goldsmith Lake November, 2022. Drone photo credit Malachi Warr
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Part I: Just not true?
By Nina Newington
One frigid November day in 2022, CBC came out to film citizen scientists on the South Mountain in Annapolis County. The group had identified 7 species at risk occurrences in areas the Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (NRR) had approved for logging around Goldsmith Lake.
Breck Stuart, General Manager of WestFor penned an op-ed in the Chronicle Herald in response. It began:
The area around Goldsmith Lake in Annapolis County has caught the eye of anti-forestry perspectives here in Nova Scotia. These 10,000 acres have been painted in the media as old, untouched pieces of forest that should be protected because of these qualities. We thought it would be important for the public to know this is just not true.