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Recent Posts
- “Mi’kmaq Establish Cultural Revitalization Camp at Hunters Mountain to Protect Sacred Land and Medicines” 16Sep2025
- Keith Egger to Premier Houston on “Meeting your 20% by 2030 obligations” 2Sep2025
- Nova Scotia DNR puts a hold on new forest harvest decisions pending end of the Woods Ban 20Aug2025
- Citizen Scientists of SW Nova Scotia ask DNR Minister to put a hold on new forest harvest decisions pending end of the Woods Ban 11Aug 2025
- Areas within Proposed Ingram River Wilderness Area in Nova Scotia now targeted for perpetual clearcutting 15Jul2025
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Category Archives: ProtectedAreas
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
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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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The “Good News” for Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area now denied by Nova Scotia Gov. 16Jun2025
Wrote Nina Newington on May 11, 2025 in A Letter worth reading: Part 1: News (good and bad)… The Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area is now under formal evaluation for permanent protection by Environment and Climate Change, with the Department of … Continue reading
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What is getting in the way of protecting 20% of Nova Scotia’s lands and waters? 16Apr2025
By Nina Newington* Shortly after coming to power in 2021, Tim Houston’s government tabled the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act (EGCCRA). To their credit, it incorporated one of the election pledges the PCs ran on: to protect 20% … 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
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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
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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
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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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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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