{"id":9868,"date":"2024-09-27T21:29:02","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T21:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?p=9868"},"modified":"2024-10-02T12:40:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:40:32","slug":"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","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/2024\/09\/27\/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\/","title":{"rendered":"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"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great swaths of mixed Wabanaki\/Acadian forest by Sandy Lake; bottom, Marsh Lake<\/strong> View more aerial vistas<\/a>.
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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”. <\/em><\/p>\n

Update Oct 2, 2024: – Letter<\/a> to Premier, Mayor of Halifax, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Minister of Environment and Climate Change (Oct 1, 2024)<\/p>\n

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Sandy Lake is the diamond in a remarkable piece of land sandwiched between four growth areas (Lower and Middle Sackville-Bedford-Hammonds Plains-Lucasville Road) just NW of Bedford and the top of the Bedford Basin. The Sandy Lake watershed is the largest or second largest sub-watershed of the Sackville River Watershed, depending on how the sub-sub-watersheds are aggregated. That’s the watershed, Sandy Lake included, where salmon are coming back thanks to the efforts of the Sackville Rivers Association and its many supporters.<\/p>\n

The large, still undeveloped area includes a wildlife corridor, now mostly a “stepping stone” but still critical for movement of wildlife\/genetic transfer (plants included) between the Chebucto Peninsula and the greater Nova Scotia Mainland. It supports great swaths of Wabanaki\/Acadian forest, most of it old forest with many pockets of Old Growth; there are even bear in the forests by the Sackville River.\u00a0 Marsh Lake, downstream from Sandy Lake is a “Treasured Wetland”.\u00a0<\/a>Thirteen Species-at-Risk make use of\u00a0 this landscape. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

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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 →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33,28,14,24,32,30,20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acadian-forest","category-community","category-conservation","category-halifax-green-network","category-regional-plan","category-sackvile-river-watershed","category-wabanaki-forest","category-water-quality","category-watershed"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9868"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10551,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9868\/revisions\/10551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}