Map of Chain Lake Area with Areas of Scheduled Harvest – Green area is Crown Land. Comments are needed by 8 a.m. on December 14, 2024. To submit comments use the Harvest Plans Map Viewer or Send an E-mail to ecologicalforestry@novascotia.ca
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 Update:
There are plans are to partial cut the areas and eventually remove the overstory. These areas are all inside the region identified as the best forests to set aside for protection and provide for wildlife habitat. The Blomidon Naturalists Society with the approval of local municipality have requested that the provincial government stop cutting here to enable an evaluation to take place for preservation. Please visit this website link for more information from Larry Bogan.
For some background info, see this post just published on nsforestmatters.ca:
Protecting a Special Place – The Chain Lakes Wilderness Area 8Dec2024 by Alan Warner.
(It was reproduced on NSFM, with permission, from an article in the Spring 2024 issue of Beyond the Tides, the Seasonal Journal of the Blomidon Naturalists Society.)
Previous posts related to Harvesting in
citizen-proposed Nova Scotia Protected Areas
Sep 24, 2024:
– Plans for harvesting within the proposed Ingram River Wilderness Area (IRWA) continue
Oct 17, 2024:
Open letter to Nova Scotia Premier Houston requesting cessation of logging in areas that are prime candidates for protection
Nov 4, 2024:
– Harvesting in citizen-proposed Nova Scotia Protected Area continued…Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area
Nov 20, 2024:
CBC InfoAM interviews on Logging in Citizen-Proposed Protected Areas #1: the “Activists”
Nov 27, 2024:
– Harvesting in citizen-proposed Nova Scotia Protected Area continued…Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area
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