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Spring Update
- 2006
March 25,
2006 - AGM
Annual General
Meeting - Refocus
& Re-vision - process underway at Center.
March 13, 2006 -
HRM
Community Trails Build Strategic Plan with 22
Connector Groups from Moser River to Hubbards.
March
3, 2006 -
Bay of Islands issues press release on Liscomb
(see below)
February 4, 2006
- Center
announces trails projects and facility infrastructure
to be focal point for 2006.
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Liscomb
Game Sanctuary
March
3, 2006
Bay of Islands Center releases response
to DNR's Sanctuary Review Report. Letter
is published in Halifax Chronicle Herald.
March
2, 2006
Provincial Advocacy Groups Meet with Deputy
Ministers, DNR & DEO
Since
last spring, logging companies have stepped
up operations, taking another 25% of standing
Liscomb forests. A new DNR Minister has
just been appointed & Dep. Minister
says more time is now needed to 'brief the
new minister'.
March
1, 2006
DNR Releases Long Awaited Report
Almost
a year to the day we met with DNR Minister
Hurlburt on the review of the province's
game sanctuaries. Hurlbert immediately stopped
the proposed delisting of the sanctuaries
& promised to consider a logging ban
in Liscomb. A year later, he is 'still considering'.
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Fall
Update: Liscombe Game Sanctuary
The
logging in Liscombe Game Sanctuary continues.
Minister Hurlburt is twiddling his thumbs, continually
announcing that he is about to make an announcement.
Fisheries and Oceans Undertakes Five Year Plan
for Eastern Scotian Shelf
Regional Trails -
Halifax Regional Trails Advisory Team readies
itself to move from the umbrella of the HRDA to
Halifax Municipality.
Bay of Islands Center Association
began building community trails for public enjoyment
of nature. Recreational trails in rural and wilderness
areas hold the promise of economic benefits for
rural communities. For trail users, the experience
of spending time outdoors is a healthy and spiritually
rewarding activity.
If
you walk a trail, you feel great, but if you build
a trail, you feel fantastic!
If you enjoy working in the woods, If you'd like
to help out for a day, a week or more, why not
volunteer
to help at the Center - a day, a week or even
longer (by special arrangement). To learn more
about the Bay of Islands Trails Projects, go
here!
We are still working on several trails of various
lengths and different themes. Our interpretive
trail is slow to finish as we try to squeeze a
little more time from our daylight hours.
The Kelly Lake/Round Lake
Trail is still on the drawing boards. We are committed
to pursuing trails development for the Bay of
Islands area, so it's time for more people to
get involved and perhaps the illimination of a
few other projects. timeseveral themes in the
area. For more information or to view photos of
our trail projects, go here!
Spring
Update - 2005
Work at the Center
is interrupted by a localized environmental issue,
crucial to the future of the Bay of Islands region
- large scale clearcutting in the Liscombe Game
Sanctuary. Of the 140,000 acres, as much as 50%
is now gone.
May 31st
Sanctuary Review Deadline
A
letter is dispatched to Minister Hurlburt with
copies to Premier Hamm, Environment Minister Morash,
Education Minister Economic Development Minister
Ernie Fage and others, demanding a logging moratorium
at Liscomb Game Sanctuary. Others send supporting
letters to Minister Hurlburt.
Read
On...
May 20th - Action Alert
The other groups were not aware that clearcutting
of public lands continues in Liscombe. All attention
is turned on Liscomb. Brad Armstrong calls the
media. Bay of Islands starts expanding support
further into Guysborough. CBC calls Gail Martin,
wanting the Liscomb story.
May 14th, 2005
A Walk In a Liscomb Clearcut
We meet at the West Sanctuary Entrance and drive
to Seloam Lake, the same day as a Saturday fishing
derby is being held. We, and around 50 fishing
derby participants drive through over a mile of
clearcut along the lake, to reach the lakehead.
Kimberly-Clark's contractors have pulled out within
a day or two of our arrival. A few machines are
left to be picked up later ... downed maples show
their red spring buds...the dust has barely settled
on this wasteland
Liscomb Collection #2 (album)
A walk through Seloam Lake clearcut, showing adjacent
recovering forest.
Liscombe Game Sanctuary - West Side (Highway 374).
May 9, 2005
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We visit Liscombe Game Sanctuary, West Side and
take pictures:
Liscomb Collection
#1
A few recent photos showing old clearcuts, regeneration
and hardwood suppression in preparation for yet
another single species extraction... sometime.
May 5th, 2005
Minister Hurlburt issues a press release granting
an extension on the Sanctuary Review, but only
until 4:00 pm, May 31st, 2005 (final day of the
spring Legislative Assembly).
The following day, Hurlburt states (Daily
News, May 6th) that he will consider a
logging ban on all Sanctuaries.
May 4th, 2005 - Meeting
with Minister
Following today's Legislative
Assembly, Mr. Hurlburt met with around a dozen
of us to hear our position on the Sanctuaries.
Brand Armstrong, speaks for Blandford, a small
sanctuary of around 1300 acres. They know what
they want and ask for a "Nature Preserve".
They speak of rare lichens and endangered Mainland
Moose. Gail Martin speaks for Liscomb, emphasizing
the need to retain the wilderness for the future
of the 20 rural communities in the Bay of Islands
region.
March-April, 2005
Individuals and groups concerned about Liscombe,
Blandford, Chignecto and Waverly Game Sanctuaries
mobilize and form a coalition. The object is to
work as a collective provincial body. Brad Armstrong,
Blandford Sanctuary proponent leads the way, gathering
support from the opposition party and informing
media.
Martin announces a 'Walk in Liscombe' for May
14th. (Chronicle Herald,
May 12, 2005)
February
18, 2005 - Action
Alert
Gail Martin, Bay of Islands Center, reacts to
DNR's announcement to delist the Sanctuaries and
sends Action Alert letters to conservation groups
all over the province. A 6 month extension to
the February 28th deadline is requested.
An online petition sends message after message
to Minister Richard Hurlburt's office. Tony Duke,
wildlife manager responds, asks for corrections.Canadian
Parks and Wilderness Society, Ecology Action Center
and local environmental groups jump in to save
'all' the Sanctuaries being delisted.
Read
details and view petition...
February
4, 2005 -
PEI TO GO GE-FREE?
Canada's smallest province may be next in the
nation-wide movement to ban genetically engineered
crops. The Prince Edward Island Legislative Assembly
will hold committee hearings into the pros and
cons of GE products. These discussions could lead
to a decision that would establish PEI as Canada's
first GE-free province.
Source: Council of Canadians ( read
more... )
September
14, 2004
Minister takes advice
from industry experts and ignores wishes of
people who elected him. Read this and then send
a message!
September
7, 2004 -
Jobs, Health
and Environmental Sustainability are again sacrificed
as offshore industry giants put pressure on politicians
and the civil service to boost their short term
profits.
September
29 , 2003 -
Eastern Shore Trails Destroyed by Hurricane Juan
- Restoration Fund
Being Considered
August
5, 2003 -
Stone Soup Festival volunteers show team synergy
during rained out celebration
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