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Recent Posts
- What is getting in the way of protecting 20% of Nova Scotia’s lands and waters? 16Apr2025
- Stories Maps Tell III: Where the Bowater map got it wrong and a new map to enjoy 10Apr2025
- Geoff Hurley on “A Balanced Path” for Nova Scotia 7Mar2025
- In the News on Nova Scotia Forest Matters: NS Democracy Issues 28Feb2025
- Stories Maps Tell II: Where the Bowater map gets it right 14Feb2025
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Category Archives: Conservation
Stories Maps Tell III: Where the Bowater map got it wrong and a new map to enjoy 10Apr2025
By Nina Newington At right: At right: This old Yellow Birch in the Goldsmith Lake area was revealed by our coring to be well over 300 years of age. It is located in an area that the Bowater map shows … Continue reading
Posted in Citizen Sceince, Citizen-proposed Protected Areas, Conservation, NS DNR, Uncategorized
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Geoff Hurley on “A Balanced Path” for Nova Scotia 7Mar2025
In a Commentary published in the Chronicle Herald on Mar 4, 2025, Geoff Hurley offers specific, practical recommendations for ensuring long-term well-being of Nova Scotians and our natural environment while moving ahead with more resource development in NS. Mr. Hurleys’s … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Freedom of Information, Landscape Level planning, NS Gov, NS NRR, ProtectedAreas, Resource Development
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Stories Maps Tell II: Where the Bowater map gets it right 14Feb2025
At issue in this ongoing series by Nina Newington is whether 3900 hectares of Crown land around Goldsmith Lake in Annapolis County should be protected, as citizen scientists propose, or whether it should remain available for forestry and other industrial … Continue reading
Posted in Citizen Sceince, Conservation, Landscape Level planning, ProtectedAreas, Species At Risk
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Stories Maps Tell 1: Just not true? 2Feb2025
by Nina Newington 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Citizen Sceince, Conservation, Forest Roads, Landscape Level planning, ProtectedAreas, Wabanaki Forest
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More on Nova Scotia DNR’s Zombie Forest Harvest Plans 15Jan 2025
By Nina Newington* *First posted on Friends of Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area on Jan 12, 2025 I thought I’d expand on the zombie harvest plan news included in the Information Morning interview that aired on January 9th. The maps accompanying … Continue reading
Posted in Citizen Sceince, Conservation, Landscape Level planning, Species At Risk, Wabanaki Forest
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Are magnificent stands of old-growth forest on Crown lands a State Secret in Nova Scotia? 10Jan2025
By Nina Newington* ___________________ *Posted earlier today on Friends of Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area (Public FB Group) Check out this interview about some of DNR’s shenanigans at Goldsmith Lake: – Is the province favouring forestry over conservation? (Audio 8 min) … Continue reading
Posted in Citizen Sceince, Conservation, ProtectedAreas, Triad, Wabanaki Forest
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Corbett-Dalhousie Lake Peninsula Old Forest revisited 4Jan 2024
By Nina Newington On Boxing Day six years ago, local resident Bev Wigney organized a gathering on the peninsula between Corbett and Dalhousie lakes. She shone a light on the value of the old, beautiful forest there to wildlife and … Continue reading
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NSWOOA providing “Live, in-the-woods demo of new ecological forestry equipment” Dec 13, 2024
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Harvesting in citizen-proposed Nova Scotia Protected Area continued…Chain Lakes Wilderness Area 8Dec2024
An item in the most recent Blomidon Naturalists’ Newsletter (Dec 2024 issue) provides yet another example of intent to log Crown land forest in a citizen-proposed Nova Scotia Protected Area, in this case the Chain Lakes Wilderness Area: Chain Lakes … Continue reading
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Protecting a Special Place – The Chain Lakes Wilderness Area 8Dec2024
By Alan Warner CONTENTS – Introduction – Why Protect the Chain Lakes? – Building Support for the Proposal – Whatʼs Next? – Stay up to date on the Chain Lakes campaign – Notes _____________ *Post reproduced, with permission, from “Protecting … Continue reading
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