In the proposed Ingram River Wilderness Area From www.protecttheingram.com
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.
Forestry and conservation efforts are frequently at odds in Nova Scotia. Environmental groups are concerned about an uptick in forestry operations on public land that they’re working to protect. We hear from a couple of activists.
Lancaster has been actively involved in efforts to protect the citizen-proposed IRWA (Ingram River Wilderness Area), an approx 15000 ha area near Saint Margaret’s Bay.
As he described in a Facebook post reproduced on NS Forest Matters on Sep 23, 2024, Protect Ingram River Wilderness Areas supporters have been concerned about plans for logging in that area well before final boundaries are established for achieving the government’s legislated commitment to 20% Protection by 2030.
Similar concerns have been expressed about logging and plans for logging in the Chain Lake Wilderness Area, the Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area and the Tobeatic Wilderness Area Addition (view posts Oct 20, 2024, Nov 4, 2024).
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