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/ --f4030437a0a077c7b405553bafcf Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hm, I'm not sure about whether individuals can do their own conservation easement. I wonder if you would have to establish a trust, some community groups have done this for one property or another, e.g. I know of several individual properties in Ontario that have their own trust. I don't know very much at all about how this works. It would be a good question for a lawyer or maybe for an association of land trusts like they have in some other provinces like BC or ON or eastern states in the US (example =3D OLTA= : http://olta.ca/) On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 1:45 PM, John and Nhung <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Thanks for this, Caitlin. It clarifies a lot. > > > > Some years back, a landowner with a plot of land in two adjacent municipa= l > units (one a town) willed us a chunk of her land. For legal reasons, we > were not able to assume ownership, but I remember advising her heirs that > *they* could take out a conservation easement on the land in question. > Offered to help further and never heard back, but I am sure the offspring > honoured their ma=E2=80=99s wishes to the best of their ability. > > > > My point (question?) is that if an owner wants to protect his or her land > and if NSNT or the Nature Conservancy of Canada doesn=E2=80=99t take it, = the owner > can take steps to apply his or her own legal easements on the land (can= =E2=80=99t > he/she??). > > > > *From:* naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@ > chebucto.ns.ca] *On Behalf Of *Caitlin Porter > *Sent:* July 26, 2017 11:49 AM > *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > *Subject:* Re: [NatureNS] A Hopeful Perspective on NS Forestry > > > > Hi all, > > > > One mechanism for protecting amazing forest parcels, eg. old growth > forest, on your property is through a private land conservation > organization. Those groups sometimes have the ability to help landowners > protect their property through a conservation easement - that's a legal > document that maintains conservation values on a property "in perpetuity"= . > > > > Those charity groups who do this work have only a few staff on hand and > limited resources. Putting a conservation easement on a property and > maintaining that over time is a time consuming legal process that require= s > fairly substantial funding from the NGO to cover those legal fees, future > monitoring of the lands, etc. That means these groups only have the abili= ty > to take on certain properties that they can get funding to take on. They > usually have fairly strict criteria for being able to take on a property. > Despite that, I'd encourage anyone with something exceptional on their > lands that they'd like to see protected to contact an NGO such as the > Nature Trust or the Nature Conservancy of Canada and explore what options > might be possible. Just keep in mind that the funding might not be there > and that the amazing folks who work for those NGOs are working really har= d > behind the scenes and so it may take some time for them to respond to you= r > calls or emails. > > > > Katie Porter > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:47 AM, John Kearney < > john.kearney@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > > Hi Dave and all, > > I agree that we need more alternatives for saving our patches of land for > future generations. > > A number of years ago, on one my birding field trips, I came upon a > 95-year old farmer working a small patch of land, surrounded by a mature > Sugar Maple-Yellow Birch forest, in the high country of Pictou County wit= h > a beautiful view of the valley below. In the course of our conversation h= e > expressed cynacism about what his relatives would do with the land when h= e > passed away, and he lamented the fact that he knew of no way to ensure th= e > protection of his lifetime of work in caring for the land. Today that lan= d > is part of an industrial-scale wind energy facility. It makes me wonder > what Nova Scotia would be or could be like if all these patches were > preserved. The choice is not between progress and a romantic clinging to > the past as some might argue. Rather it is I believe, a choice between > seeing the land as a commodity for our personal use and profit, or as a > heritage, a work of art even, that we have a collective responsibility to > care for and enhance during the time we dwell on the land. > > John > > > > *From:* naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@ > chebucto.ns.ca] *On Behalf Of *David > *Sent:* July-25-17 13:20 > *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > *Cc:* David Webster <dwebster@glinx.com> > *Subject:* Re: [NatureNS] A Hopeful Perspective on NS Forestry > > > > Hi John & All, > > I suspect conservation, and nature worship, rank high in the minds of > most private woodlot owners. > > I was fully disgusted with NS Nature Trust when they sniffed 'We don'= t > protect that kind of woodland', when I made inquiries about protecting my > woodlot permanently from residential/commercial development. > > If you aim to protect 12% of an area then 78% is unprotected and what > good is a pail if 78% of the bottom is missing ? > > I never did read the second half of A Sand County Almanac, land ethic= , > because it was preachy and dry, but having read an old National Geographi= c > article about Leopold, I now realize he preached conservation as a way of > managing all landscapes. > > Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville > > > > > > ------ Original Message ------ > > From: "John Kearney" <john.kearney@ns.sympatico.ca> > > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Sent: 7/25/2017 12:09:33 PM > > Subject: [NatureNS] A Hopeful Perspective on NS Forestry > > > > School for Resource and Environmental Studies > > MES Thesis Defence > > > > GIFTS TO A FUTURE WORLD: CONVERSATIONS WITH WOODLAND OWNERS IN NOVA SCOTI= A > > > > By Andrew W. Kekacs > > > > *Abstract:* > > > > Private, non-industrial woodland owners provide more than half of the > timber used by Nova Scotia=E2=80=99s forest products industry. Research, = however, > suggests many of these owners do not consider income from timber sales to > be their primary reason for owning woodland. This study aimed to reach a > holistic understanding of their attitudes and motivations using walking > interviews on the owners=E2=80=99 woodlands and a grounded theory approac= h to > analysis, in which explanations of the phenomena under study are induced > from the data rather than being based on responses to survey questions or > derived from a priori hypotheses. Forest landowners interviewed for t