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Recent Posts
- “Camp NOW” set up to protest failure to protect wilderness areas in Nova Scotia 4Dec2025
- Citizen-proposed Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area (Nova Scotia): 121 confirmed SAR, 31 stands of protected OGF 1Dec 2025
- Shoulder to Shoulder – NN 16Nov2025
- A few pics from Shoulder to Shoulder: We are All Treaty People Rally 15Nov2025
- Nova Scotia DNR announces a short cut in public review of forest harvest plans 6Nov2025
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Category Archives: ProtectedAreas
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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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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Healthy Forest Coalition to Nova Scotia Political Leaders: Nature Protection First not Last 8Nov2024
Just received: this message which the Healthy Forest Coalition sent to party leaders yesterday (Nov 7, 2024): NATURE PROTECTION FIRST NOT LAST The value of forests is changing. The way we treat them must change too. We are all stakeholders … Continue reading
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Harvesting in citizen-proposed Nova Scotia Protected Area continued…Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area4Nov2024
Post by David Patriquin Citizens have 40 days and 40 nights to comment on the proposed harvest but only comments specific to the site will be answered; in the meantime it’s not clear whether the parcel in question will remain … Continue reading
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A second scientific paper by MG Betts & colleagues further documents “Forest Degradation” in Maritime Canada 31Oct2024
It’s difficult to understate the significance of this paper given the recent efforts of the E.U. to bring in regulations that limit exports and imports of forest products associated with “deforestation” and “forest degradation” while the Canadian forest industry and … Continue reading
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Special Announcement – Public Meeting on the proposed Chain Lakes Wilderness Area Mon Oct 28, 2024
The province has promised to protect 20% of the land area of Nova Scotia by 2030, but government folks are evidently not taking their promise very seriously. It appears that the intent of DNRR is to cut the best of … Continue reading
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