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Category Archives: Conservation
Wetland Appreciation Week 2025: Aug 9 to 17
From EAC Announcement: Wetlands Appreciation Week 2025 will be taking place from Aug. 9 to 17, 2025! Join the Ecology Action Centre, Birds Canada, CARP, Cole Harbour Parks & Trails, The Confederacy of Mainland Mi’kmaq, Ducks Unlimited Canada, East Coast … Continue reading
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Citizen launches legal action against Mount Hope Development Ltd, re: damage to wetland 1Aug 2025
View: Zebedee files legal action against Eisner Cove Wetland development project by By Francis Campbell for Saltwire/Chronicle Herald Aug 1, 2025 News Release by Bill Zebedee July 31, 2025: PRIVATE PROSECUTION CASE FILED AGAINST CLAYTON DEVELOPMENTS, DARTMOUTH At an August … Continue reading
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Community Studies for Sandy Lake (Bedford, NS) Special Planning Area “ignore” critical data on water quality 25Jul2025
By David Patriquin The critical data have to do with very low deep water oxygen and evidence for “Internal Phosphorous Loading” in Sandy Lake. Recent monitoring and research reveal that such conditions now exist in more than a few lakes … Continue reading
“Community studies are complete for the Sandy Lake special planning area” – NS Gov 16May2025
So we learn from a NS Gov News Release “Minister Designates New Special Planning Area; Two Major Studies Complete – NS Growth & Development, 16 May 2025. Some excerpts from that document follow (brown text, bolding inserted). ——————– More homes … Continue reading
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The Kingswood Ratepayers Association concerned about Sandy Lake 14Apr2025
Saving Sandy Lake was the lead item on the 6 pm Global News Maritimes for Apr 13. It begins with a a statement by Chris Bryant of the Kingswood Rate-payers Association: “You’ve got an area like this one were standing … Continue reading
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Happy Thanksgiving 2024
Two Pics from a visit to Sandy Lake & Environs on Friday Oct 11 illustrate the beauty of this place, especially appreciated on Thanksgiving weekend.
Latest limnological profiles confirm long term trend of decline in the health of Sandy Lake (Bedford, NS), a major new development on its headwaters could do it in 27Sep2024
In conclusion, our latest limnological profiles further confirm a long term trend of decline in the health of Sandy Lake (Bedford, NS), and underscore why a major new development on its headwaters could “do it in”. Update Oct 2, 2024: … Continue reading
“The biggest White Pine I’ve ever seen” viewed at Sandy Lake” Aug 25, 2024
Wrote Ed G recently: @SandyLake_Park we discovered “The biggest White Pine I’ve ever seen ” this weekend. The same Sandy Lake forest my grandfather took me on walks through and the reason I chose to become a forester. It measured … Continue reading
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Radon, Bird Friendly Halifax, Municipal Watershed Management Framework, Coastal Management all topics of the HRM Environment & Sustainability Standing Committee Aug 1, 2024
There was a lot packed in to the August 1, 2024 meeting of the Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee. View: – Proceedings on YouTube -The Agenda PDF It includes Links to related documents, amongst them: – Radon Awareness, PDF of … Continue reading
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Salmon Parr spotted at the top of Peverills Brook June 24, 2024
Update July 29, 2024: View the DFO’s Draft Atlantic Salmon Strategy; opportunity to comment open June 27, 2024-July 30, 2024. Apologies, I just became aware of it on July 29th, unfort. not the only one! – dp Sandy Lake enthusiast … Continue reading
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