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Category Archives: clearcuts
Nina Newington on the revised SGEM for Nova Scotia: some big improvements and some trap doors 15Feb2021
Nina’s comments are another example of Nova Scotians taking the time to carefully examine proposed changes in forest management on our Crown lands in response to the Lahey Report and to offer thoughtful, constructive suggestions on how to improve them. … Continue reading
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Nina Newington Notes from Court #2 — the Illusion of Consent, February 5th, 2021
Nina Newington’s post on Extinction rebellion Nova Scotia (Public Facebook Page) today: “Background: I spent the day in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on January 26th, observing WestFor’s application to extend the temporary injunction they were granted in December against … Continue reading
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Mike Lancaster’s thoughtful words about the Westfor video defending their forestry practices/moose management 31Jan2021
Following their day in court on Jan 26, 2021 to argue their case for “continuance of a court order against protesters who have been trying to stop clear cutting in public forests” (CBC, Jan 26, 2021), WestFor posted a video … Continue reading
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Cutting Moose Country# 1 in Nina Newington’s Notes From Court 30Jan2021
From a post by Nina Newington on Extinction Rebellion Nova Scotia (public Facebook Group): “I spent the day in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court on January 26th, observing WestFor’s application to extend the temporary injunction they were granted in December … Continue reading
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Bev Wigney on Parcel ID # IN205583 (Cape Breton Highlands) 25Jan2021
Says Bev Wigney, “Why don’t you leave something for dessert?” Or, just perhaps, for the Next Seven Generations. Bev Wigney, today, on Annapolis Royal & Area – Environment & Ecology, a public Facebook Group. (Bolding inserted): Hello Forestry Maps Entity, … Continue reading
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Forest Nova Scotia’s “simple math” underscores key issue for success or failure of Government’s implementation of Lahey Recommendations: How much wood is to be taken from Crown lands? 22Jan 2021
UPDATE; Comment by Nina Newington on ‘what I actually said” Big Forestry in Nova Scotia, well represented by Forest Nova Scotia, and WestFor and their individual advocates rarely comment in public in any detail on controversial issues except for the … Continue reading
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Nova Scotia PI204568 (Pictou Co.) Landscape level High-grading continued, and thinking about alternatives
Apologies, ‘published’ in error while I was drafting it; ‘should be up in a few days.** For info on the site in question (today is last day it’s open for comment on the HPMV), see PI204568 atop Dalhousie Mountain 15Jan2021 … Continue reading
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Landscape-level “Log the best and leave the rest” on Nova Scotia’s Crown land forests 10Jan 2021
Examples from the two most recent Harvest Plan Notifications, one in Queens Co. in SW Nova Scotia and one in the area of the proposed Ingram River Wilderness Area (Halifax Co.) illustrate how the practice of “log the best and … Continue reading
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One year after closure of the NP Mill, NSWOOA’s Kekacs asks “…why would we ever allow such a situation to develop again?” 8Jan2021
In response to a CBC piece titled Fear of looming economic blow remains 1 year after Northern Pulp closure (Emma Smith · CBC News, Jan 7, 2021), Andy Kekacs, Executive Director of the Nova Scotia Woodlot Owners and Operators Association asks … Continue reading
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39 years ago Digby East Fish and Game petitioned Nova Scotia Government not to build roads into moose lands now accessed by WestFor 15Dec2020
A document that sat “in a filing cabinet for almost 40 years” has come to light recently, and reveals the historic concern about protecting mainland moose and more broadly, our “last interior wilderness” in SW Nova Scotia. View post by … Continue reading
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