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Recent Posts
- On our Wabanaki Forest & Canada’s National Indigenous Peoples Day 21jun2026
- Map of “Community-Proposed Protected Areas” in Nova Scotia released by EAC/HFC 10Jun2026
- When does “protected area” in Nova Scotia actually mean protected? 2Jun2024
- There is a law against harming nesting birds but in Nova Scotia it falls on us, the public, to stand up for them 24May2026
- If ever there was a time when we need eccentric bees, this is it 16May2026
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Category Archives: ProtectedAreas
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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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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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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Responses of Nova Scotia Liberals, NDP, PCs & Greens to “Nature Protection First Not Last” 20Nov2024
Just received (Nov 20, 2024) from the Healthy Forest Coalition: The Healthy Forest Coalition reached out to the provincial party leaders with a 7 point election statement and a question [See Post, Nov 8, 2024, for details]. It ended thus: … Continue reading
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