clearcutting

Ingram River clearcut upsets St. Margaret's Bay residents

Robert DeVet — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 17:37:35 +0000

KJIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - Residents of St.

Clearcutting the neighborhood – a community fights back

Robert DeVet — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 18:20:55 +0000

K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - We will soon find out what happens when local residents say no to clearcutting in their community.

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DNR and the disappearing science

Robert DeVet — Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:02:11 +0000

Nova Scotia forests, not a renewable resource after all?

K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - Northern Pulp, Pictou's infamous pulp and paper plant, needs wood. Lots of wood.

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Feeding the Boiler - NS Power's biomass plant and the health of our forests

Robert DeVet — Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:14:11 +0000

K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - It started with a couple of anonymous phone calls to the Ecology Action Centre reception desk, sometime last fall.

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New book tackles old-growth forests on our East Coast

Robert DeVet — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:53:52 +0000

Author champions restoration, wants clearcutting curbed

K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - At one time, before white settlers arrived, majestic old-growth forests covered most of Nova Scotia.

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Draft plan shows sensitive forests in Western Nova Scotia open for harvesting

Robert DeVet — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 18:16:09 +0000

Government biologists ignored by Department of Natural Resources

K'JIPUKTUK, HALIFAX - When a government-assembled team of scientists and other experts set to work to identify ecologically sensitive areas within a large tract of Western Nova Scotia forest lands

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Paving paradise in Jollimore. Clearcutting, lack of consultation and damage to cemetery have residents upset

Robert DeVet — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 16:15:34 +0000

K'JIPUKTUK (Halifax) - Boscobel on the Arm, a posh new subdivision being developed where once there was an urban forest, does not sit well with residents of Jollimore, an old community nestled on the North West Arm.<

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