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Recent Posts
- Nova Scotia DNR announces a short cut in public review of forest harvest plans 6Nov2025
- Rally Sat Nov 15, 2025 Halifax: Shoulder to Shoulder, We are All Treaty People
- NatureNS on where we stand today on Protected Areas in Nova Scotia 26Oct2025
- On Thanksgiving 2025: In celebration of our Wabanaki/Acadian Forest 12Oct2025
- NN: “I’m a citizen scientist working to protect Nova Scotia’s forests. Tim Houston is threatening to put me in jail” 2Oct2025
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Category Archives: Landscape Level planning
Nova Scotia DNR announces a short cut in public review of forest harvest plans 6Nov2025
Received today, bolding inserted: The Harvest Plans Map Viewer has been updated as of November 6, 2025. No proposed harvest plans were added. Please see the map at: https://nsgi.novascotia.ca/hpmv/ The next update is scheduled for November 17, 2025.We are making … Continue reading
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Keith Egger to Premier Houston on “Meeting your 20% by 2030 obligations” 2Sep2025
The post is adapted from the text of a letter written by Keith Egger addressed to Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, Minister of Natural Resources Tory Rushton, and to Minister of Environment and Climate Change Tim Halman; it was sent … Continue reading
Posted in Conservation, Landscape Level planning, NS Gov, ProtectedAreas
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A Letter Worth Reading Part 3: Nova Scotia Gov. correction – Goldsmith Lake is NOT under consideration as a Wilderness Area
By Nina Newington CONTENTS – CBC investigates – The obvious question, and others – Justifying – Compliant – Current – What Now? – Relevant Freedom of Information Docs CBC investigates On June 12th, CBC’s Phlis McGregor reported: Earlier this spring … Continue reading
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“Intelligent Meandering” in the citizen-proposed Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area of Nova Scotia 5May2025
By Lisa Proulx* We continue to look for Species at Risk (SAR) in the proposed Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area, in an attempt to protect not only the old growth forests, but the younger and mature areas in between, to ensure … Continue reading
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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
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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
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Harvesting in citizen-proposed Nova Scotia Protected Area continued…Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area 26Nov2024
UPDATE Dec 8, 2024: Comments on this harvest planned for the Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area should be submitted before 8 a.m. on Dec 14, 2024 See Comment deadline for Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area harvest plan ————— From a post by … Continue reading
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CBC InfoAM interviews on Logging in Citizen-Proposed Protected Areas #1: the “Activists” 20Nov2024
CBC’s Carsten Knox interviewed St. Margaret’s Bay Stewardship Association Coordinator Mike Lancaster, and Ecology Action Centre’s Wilderness Coordinator Raymond Plourde on the topic of “Protecting Wilderness Areas” for Information Morning – NS with Portia Clarke, aired on Nov 19, 2024. … Continue reading
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