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personal con --Apple-Mail-1-477723769 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Dear All, I don't think it's a "legal activity" to allow even a small amount of = oil to leak from ?construction equipment into a stream with a turtle = population but this seems to have happened at Parmeter Wood sometime = during the last few days. It may well be perfectly legal to damage and probably kill oaks that are = certainly older than Canada and probably older than the Province of Nova = Scotia all for the sake of a few loads of sand, a common deposit in this = part of Nova Scotia, but I can well understand the owners' wishes to = remain anonymous. It is also difficult to see how sand could be trucked out without = crossing a public footpath or disturbing the residents of an adjacent = special care facility. Whilst looking around the woods yesterday, I met a fellow lister almost = in a state of shock a what could happen to what he described as his = "favourite place". Lets hope a solution can be found but, like others, I have no idea how = to start this process. By chance,The Blomidon Naturalist Society is organizing a walk through = the woods on Saturday June 5th meeting at the parking lot of the = Evergreen Home, 655 Park Street at 8am. The walk will provide a chance for interested people to see what is at = stake. Bob Stevens On 2010-05-26, at 6:16 PM, David & Alison Webster wrote: > Hi Richard, May 26, 2010 > The owner or owners of this woodland area have kindly allowed the = public to go there for many years and it would be expected, in return, = that the public should not interfere with legal activity by the = landowner. [I don't btw know any of the landowners, other than by = possible Surname]. > =20 > The best way to save this land for public enjoyment would be to = negotiate purchase with the owner and. of course, pay as much as he/she = could expect to earn by mining it. > =20 > The best way to protect such landscape in general would be to = diminish the huge demand for sand and gravel most of which is for = frivolous purposes. > =20 > Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Richard Stern > To: NatureNS > Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:37 AM > Subject: [NatureNS] Concern re: Palmeter Woods >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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? >=20 > Richard > --=20 > ################# > Richard Stern,=20 > 317 Middle Dyke Rd. > Port Williams, NS, Canada > B0P 1T0 >=20 > sternrichard@gmail.com > ################### >=20 >=20 >=20 > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com=20 > Version: 9.0.819 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2896 - Release Date: = 05/25/10 15:26:00 --Apple-Mail-1-477723769 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><base href=3D"x-msg://23/"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; "><div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 18px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">Dear All,</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Times New = Roman'; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 18px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">I don't think it's a "legal activity" = to allow even a small amount of oil to leak from ?construction equipment = into a stream with a turtle population but this seems to have happened = at Parmeter Wood sometime during the last few days.</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Times New = Roman'; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 18px/normal 'Times New Roman'; ">It may well be perfectly = legal to damage and probably kill oaks that are certainly older than = Canada and probably older than the Province of Nova Scotia all for the = sake of a few loads of sand, a common deposit in this part of Nova = Scotia, but I can well understand the owners' wishes to remain = anonymous.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 18px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Times New = Roman'; ">It is also difficult to see how sand could be trucked out = without crossing a public footpath or disturbing the residents of an = adjacent special care facility.</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 18px/normal 'Times New