{"id":631,"date":"2022-12-10T12:53:51","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T12:53:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/?p=631"},"modified":"2022-12-10T13:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T13:01:35","slug":"will-the-pcs-deliver-on-their-promise-to-implement-triad-forestry-in-nova-scotia-by-year-end-10dec2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/2022\/12\/10\/will-the-pcs-deliver-on-their-promise-to-implement-triad-forestry-in-nova-scotia-by-year-end-10dec2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Will the PCs deliver on their promise to implement Triad Forestry in Nova Scotia by year end? 10Dec2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_218\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BealsHighGrading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BealsHighGrading-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BealsHighGrading-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BealsHighGrading-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BealsHighGrading-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BealsHighGrading.jpg 1519w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The Big Question<\/strong>: Will we see an end to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nsforestnotes.ca\/?s=Highgrading+at+the+Landscape+Level\">Highgrading at the Landscape Level<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0 on Crown lands on Jan 1, 2023?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8216;Just wonderin&#8217; re: items (c) and (d) below and &#8216;The Big Question&#8221; (right).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The current* NS Government&#8217;s Commitment<\/strong> (clause 10 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/nslegislature.ca\/legc\/bills\/64th_1st\/3rd_read\/b057.htm\">Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act<\/a>, As Passed on Nov 5, 2021, bolding inserted):<br \/>\n*<span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">A PC Government was elected with a majority\u00a0 on Aug 17, 2021, replacing two successive Liberal Governments (2013-2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em><span style=\"color: #996633;\">\u00a0The Government&#8217;s goals with respect to the protection of land are<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>(a) <strong><span style=\"color: #996633;\">to conserve at least 20% of the total land and water mass of the Province by 2030<\/span><\/strong> as protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures, including Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, in a manner consistent with national reporting criteria;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(b) to support the goal in clause (a) with <strong><span style=\"color: #996633;\">a collaborative protected areas strategy to be released by December 31, 2023<\/span><\/strong>;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8212;-&gt;<\/strong>(c)<strong><span style=\"color: #996633;\"> to implement by 2023 an ecological forestry approach for Crown lands,<\/span><\/strong> consistent with the recommendations in &#8220;An Independent Review of Forest Practices in Nova Scotia&#8221; prepared by William Lahey in 2018, through the triad model of forest management that prioritizes the sustainability of ecosystems and biodiversity in the Province; and<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8212;-&gt;<\/strong>(d) <strong><span style=\"color: #996633;\">to identify by 2023 the percentage allocation of Crown land dedicated to each pillar of the triad model of forest management<\/span><\/strong> referred to in clause (c).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There was lots left to do as of <a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/2022\/07\/13\/whats-left-to-do-to-implement-the-forest-triad-in-nova-scotia-by-2023-plenty-13jul2022\/\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Just wonderin&#8217; re: items (c) and (d) below and &#8216;The Big Question&#8221; (right). The current* NS Government&#8217;s Commitment (clause 10 in the Environmental Goals and Climate Change Reduction Act, As Passed on Nov 5, 2021, bolding inserted): *A PC Government &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/2022\/12\/10\/will-the-pcs-deliver-on-their-promise-to-implement-triad-forestry-in-nova-scotia-by-year-end-10dec2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-triad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/nstriad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}