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cmVucy1v This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0161_01D30710.74E7B610 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks Lance, This may open a lead. I long for a process by which one can simply spel= l out the terms in a deed as opposed to having a gaggle of Lawyers, Trustee= s and Board members making a mess of things from afar. DW ----- Original Message ----- From: Laviolette, Lance To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 7:05 PM Subject: RE: [NatureNS] Easements Hi John, The answer is that in Nova Scotia and other Canadian Provinces that I=E2= =80=99m familiar with, an easement is between the land owner and an eligibl= e body. The =E2=80=98eligible body=E2=80=99 is the key phrase. In Nova Scot= ia an eligible body is: =C2=B7 Her Majesty in right of the Province or any agency of Her = Majesty in right of the Province; =C2=B7 Her Majesty in right of Canada or any agency of Her Majest= y in right of Canada; =C2=B7 A municipality or any agency of a municipality; =C2=B7 Any of the thirteen Nova Scotia Mi=E2=80=99kmaw bands or a= ny legal organization representing two or more of the bands; =C2=B7 Any organization that was, immediately before this Act com= es into force, designated by the Governor in Council as a conservation orga= nization under the former Act; =C2=B7 Any other organization designated pursuant to the regulati= ons NSNT would be such a designated organization. A private citizen would not= be. My source is the Conservation Easements Act of the Province of Nova Scoti= a. Cheers, Lance Lance Laviolette Glen Robertson, Ontario From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca= ] On Behalf Of John and Nhung Sent: July 26, 2017 12:45 PM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: EXTERNAL: [NatureNS] Easements 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 t= hey could take out a conservation easement on the land in question. Offere= d to help further and never heard back, but I am sure the offspring honoure= d 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, t= he 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 fores= t, on your property is through a private land conservation organization. Th= ose groups sometimes have the ability to help landowners protect their prop= erty through a conservation easement - that's a legal document that maintai= ns conservation values on a property "in perpetuity". Those charity groups who do this work have only a few staff on hand and l= imited resources. Putting a conservation easement on a property and maintai= ning that over time is a time consuming legal process that requires fairly = substantial funding from the NGO to cover those legal fees, future monitori= ng of the lands, etc. That means these groups only have the ability to take= on certain properties that they can get funding to take on. They usually h= ave fairly strict criteria for being able to take on a property. Despite th= at, I'd encourage anyone with something exceptional on their lands that the= y'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. J= ust keep in mind that the funding might not be there and that the amazing f= olks who work for those NGOs are working really hard behind the scenes and = so it may take some time for them to respond to your 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-ye= ar old farmer working a small patch of land, surrounded by a mature Sugar M= aple-Yellow Birch forest, in the high country of Pictou County with a beaut= iful view of the valley below. In the course of our conversation he express= ed cynacism about what his relatives would do with the land when he passed = away, and he lamented the fact that he knew of no way to ensure the protect= ion of his lifetime of work in caring for the land. Today that land 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 c= hoice is not between progress and a romantic clinging to the past as some m= ight argue. Rather it is I believe, a choice between seeing the land as a c= ommodity for our personal use and profit, or as a heritage, a work of art e= ven, that we have a collective responsibility to care for and enhance durin= g 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