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 Natural Resources collaborating. The Citizen Scientists of Southwest Nova Scotia proposed the area for protection in 2022.
Considering that, until recently, the Minister of Natural Resources claimed not to know anything about that proposal, the news that the area is now being treated as a candidate for permanent protection is very good news indeed.
The news, far from coming as a public announcement, is contained – you might even say buried – in the second paragraph of a letter Annapolis MLA David Bowlby sent out on April 23rd…
Some recent followup by CBC on the topic revealed, however, that MLA Bowlby apparently made a mistake and
“Goldsmith Lake is not under consideration for designation as a Wilderness Area.”
View/listen to CBC:
Volunteer group urging province to conserve land where there’s protected species (AUDIO)
Information Morning – NS with Portia Clark, June 12, 2025 “Confusion swirls around whether the province is considering conserving some forested Crown land in Annapolis County, where logging operations continue despite volunteer citizen scientists finding protected species in the area. Information Morning’s Phlis McGregor brings us the story.”
You can read a Rough Transcript on this website. Go to the 3 minutes section.