Category Archives: Conservation

What is Lichen Camp 2025? 24 Apr2025

Posted on April 24, 2025 by Admin

Nina Newington Lichen Camp is a research camp dedicated to educating the public and the government about biodiversity and the importance of protecting it. The camp is run by a loose collection of people working to protect the proposed Goldsmith … Continue reading →

Posted in Citizen Sceince, Citizen-proposed Protected Areas, Conservation | Comments Off

Stories Maps Tell III: Where the Bowater map got it wrong and a new map to enjoy 10Apr2025

Posted on April 11, 2025 by Admin

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 | Comments Off

Geoff Hurley on “A Balanced Path” for Nova Scotia 7Mar2025

Posted on March 7, 2025 by Admin

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 | Comments Off

Stories Maps Tell II: Where the Bowater map gets it right 14Feb2025

Posted on February 14, 2025 by Admin

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 | Comments Off

Stories Maps Tell 1: Just not true? 2Feb2025

Posted on February 2, 2025 by Admin

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 | Comments Off

More on Nova Scotia DNR’s Zombie Forest Harvest Plans 15Jan 2025

Posted on January 16, 2025 by Admin

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 | Comments Off

Are magnificent stands of old-growth forest on Crown lands a State Secret in Nova Scotia? 10Jan2025

Posted on January 10, 2025 by Admin

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 | Comments Off

Corbett-Dalhousie Lake Peninsula Old Forest revisited 4Jan 2024

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Admin

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 →

Posted in Citizen Sceince, Conservation, ProtectedAreas | Comments Off

NSWOOA providing “Live, in-the-woods demo of new ecological forestry equipment” Dec 13, 2024

Posted on December 9, 2024 by Admin

Received from NSWOOA this a.m.:

Posted in Conservation, Sustainable Wood Harvests | Comments Off

Harvesting in citizen-proposed Nova Scotia Protected Area continued…Chain Lakes Wilderness Area 8Dec2024

Posted on December 8, 2024 by Admin

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 →