But, what seemed positive news turned out to contain some very sour grapes
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UPDATE May 3, 2019
Bev Wigney requests “a map showing all of the parcels in Annapolis County that were granted approval for harvest before the HPMV was established…all those that were approved before the HPMV and that are either going to be harvested by whoever licensed them, or that will be or have been turned over to Westfor without going through the current HPMV process with its public consultation period. View post on Annapolis Royal & Area – Environment & Ecology (public Facebook group). Response, within a few hours: “Thank you for your comment. The department will discuss this topic and get back to you.”…and a few hours after that: “We are searching for the old pdf maps that showed proposed harvest areas before the HPMV was put online in April 2016 so that we can restore that webpage. We will notify you when we have that information.”
UPDATE May 2, 2019: A Petition has been launched to stop logging in the Corbett-Dalhousie Lake area. From the Petition:
The Minister of the Nova Scotia Department of Lands and Forestry has given his approval to the continued destruction of the forests on the peninsula between Corbett and Dalhousie Lakes in Annapolis County. Much of this is “old forest” with “super canopy trees” – many of which are more than 8 feet in circumference. Much of it is shade tolerant forest featuring important tree species such as Yellow Birch, Sugar Maple, and Red Spruce — all of which are long-lived species typical of what was once the pride of the renowned Acadian forests of Nova Scotia before they were all but reduced to a pathetic shadow of their past.
….A few strips of this forest have already been chopped down (see photo). This was done last autumn before work ceased for the winter. It is a scene of destruction. The best of the trees in these strips were removed, leaving misshapen and multi-trunked survivors standing – trees that are *SUPPOSED* to be “overstory”
…. Now the plan is to do the same to the remaining forest…
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Received today in an e-mail to those who Sign up for map-update notification (accessed via via DNR › Forestry › Harvest Operation Maps): Continue reading
