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--001636c924c29e9801048780369f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Many of you will have sen references here to the area of woodland in W.Kentville known unofficially as Palmeter Woods. It lies in what used (?) to be the Kentville Federal Migratory Bird Sanctuary. There are a number of walking trails, used by local hikers, dog-walkers, X-country skiers and naturalists. There is a huge, ugly open sand pit to the west, behind the property "Seven Bridges". As Andy Dean pointed out the other day, there is currently some earth moving equipment digging up the ground in 1 area in there, and the beautiful old oak tree that several people designated one of NS's important trees in a recent survey, has had a number of limbs chopped off to allow access. After a number of local enquiries I have learned that they are testing the sand in there to see if it is of enough commercial value to extract it (which would presumably mean chopping down the woods and digging another huge sand pit if it is). This is not within the Bird Sanctuary - it's on private land , and is posted "Private Property". The public are presumably allowed to use the area with their unwritten consent. I have little experience with dealing with this kind of issue, and furthermore I have a personal conflict of interest in that I do not wish to get on the wrong side of the land-owner, whom I know, for totally unrelated reasons. Also, I wouldn't want the land-owner to prevent access to the area because he is annoyed with environmentalists, but ..... is there any way for an environmental group, or the public, or whoever, to monitor this, and is there any way to preserve these woods and prevent them being turned into an environmentally disastrous sand-pit? Richard -- ################# Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 sternrichard@gmail.com ################### --001636c924c29e9801048780369f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Many of you will have sen references here to the area of woodland in W.Kent= ville known unofficially as Palmeter Woods. It lies in what used (?) to be = the Kentville Federal Migratory Bird Sanctuary. There are a number of walki= ng trails, used by local hikers, dog-walkers, X-country skiers and naturali= sts. There is a huge, ugly open sand pit to the west, behind the property &= quot;Seven Bridges". As Andy Dean pointed out the other day, there is = currently some earth moving equipment digging up the ground in 1 area in th= ere, and the beautiful old oak tree that several people designated one of N= S's important trees in a recent survey, has had a number of limbs chopp= ed off to allow access. <br> <br>After a number of local enquiries I have learned that they are testing = the sand in there to see if it is of enough commercial value to extract it = (which would presumably mean chopping down the woods and digging another hu= ge sand pit if it is). This is not within the Bird Sanctuary - it's on = private land , and is posted "Private Property". The public are p= resumably allowed to use the area with their unwritten consent.<br> <br>I have little experience with dealing with this kind of issue, and furt= hermore I have a personal conflict of interest in that I do not wish to get= on the wrong side of the land-owner, whom I know, for totally unrelated re= asons. Also, I wouldn't want the land-owner to prevent access to the ar= ea because he is annoyed with environmentalists,=A0 but ..... is there any = way for an environmental group, or the public, or whoever, to monitor this,= and is there any way to preserve these woods and prevent them being turned= into an environmentally disastrous sand-pit?<br> <br>Richard<br>-- <br>#################<br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dy= ke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br>B0P 1T0<br><br><a href=3D"mailto:ste= rnrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</a><br>###################<br> --001636c924c29e9801048780369f--
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