NS businesses sign-on for public wilderness

Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 10:59:21 -0400 (AST)
From: Heather Breeze <aa670@chebucto.ns.ca>
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Please encourage businesses and organizations who haven't yet done so to
support more public land wilderness in Nova Scotia.

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Please circulate widely...

FROM:  Nova Scotia Public Lands Coalition

TO:  Nova Scotia Businesses and Organizations

RE:  Your Endorsement to Protect Nova Scotia’s Public Wilderness 
(Instructions below – it’s easy)

To add your business or organization to a list of those endorsing the 
protection of Nova Scotia’s publicly-owned Crown wildlands and coastlines 
please go to http://www.publicland.ca/ and click on "Sign up your 
business/organization as a supporter of public wildlands" or go directly to 
http://www.whatasite.com/publicland/organization_letter.html


Background

Public land is scarce in Nova Scotia.  Just 28% of the province and less 
than 5% of our coastline is provincial Crown land.  The lion’s share of this 
public land base is under threat.

In September 2000 the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) 
proposed a long-term land use plan for Crown lands called “Integrated 
Resource Management” (IRM).  The controversial plan recommends that 80% of 
these public lands, over 10,000 km2, be left open for industrial resource 
extraction like clearcutting and mining despite previous government 
commitments to protect more land.


Public Forests and Coastline on the Chopping Block

Proposed Wilderness Areas at Fogarty’s Cove, Kluscap Mountain, Gully Lake, 
Ship Harbour Long Lake, Herring Cove, Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes, 
Nictaux River, Eigg Mountain-James River, Tusket River, Liscomb, 
Sackville-Beaverbank, Prospect, East Hants, and elsewhere, as well as 
proposed additions to the Tobeatic Wilderness Area, and most publicly-owned 
coastal lands will be open for logging, mining, roads, and/or development 
under the IRM plan.  These areas need legal protection.


Nova Scotia Public Lands Coalition

The Nova Scotia Public Lands Coalition is a broad union of recreation,
conservation, tourism, science, and community organizations that believes
protecting our limited publicly-owned wilderness is good for the 
environment, the economy, and our quality of life in Nova Scotia.  The 
coalition includes groups as diverse as the Nova Scotia Federation of 
Anglers and Hunters, the Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia, and 
the Ecology Action Centre.


Specifically, we are calling on the Premier of Nova Scotia to:

·	overhaul the proposed IRM plan to recognize conservation as the primary 
role of public lands
·	honour Nova Scotia’s wilderness commitments
·	protect all remaining public wildlands over 200 hectares, significant 
natural areas identified by the Department of the Environment during the IRM 
process, and public lands proposed for protection by various NGOs and 
municipalities
·	buy time for public wildlands by placing areas described above under a 
development moratorium


* * SIGN ON INSTRUCTIONS HERE * *

The support of Nova Scotia businesses and organizations is crucial to show 
broad support for protecting public lands.  We are asking businesses and 
organizations to endorse the protection of more Crown lands by

(1) visiting http://www.publicland.ca/ and clicking on “Sign up your
business/organization as a supporter of public wildlands”

OR

(2) going directly to
http://www.whatasite.com/publicland/organization_letter.html

Once you fill out the form we’ll add the name of your business or 
organization to a list of wilderness supporters.  The form doubles as a 
letter to Premier John Hamm.  Check it out!

For more information on Nova Scotia’s public lands and the Nova Scotia 
Public Lands Coalition (including member groups and vision/position 
statements), please visit http://www.publicland.ca

Many thanks,

Pamela Langille

on behalf of the Nova Scotia Public Lands Coalition

PS.  Organizations that would like to join the Nova Scotia Public Lands
Coalition can call the Ecology Action Centre at (902) 429-2202.  Please
circulate this e-mail widely!

The NS Public Lands Coalition is:

Annapolis County Environmental Protection Association
Annapolis Fly Fishing Association
Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Society
Blomidon Naturalists Society
Canadian Association of Smallmouth Anglers
Canadian Nature Federation
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society – Atlantic Chapter
Canoe Kayak Nova Scotia
Cumberland County River Enhancement Association
Eastern Shore Forest Watch
Ecology Action Centre
Enviro-Clare
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists
Fox Island Wilderness Association
Friends of Point Pleasant Park Association
Halifax Wildlife Association
Long Lake Provincial Park Association
Margaree Environmental Association
Nova Scotia Coastal Water Trail
Nova Scotia Environmental Network Forests Caucus
Nova Scotia Federation of Anglers and Hunters
Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group
Nova Scotia Salmon Association
Pictou County Naturalists
Sackville Rivers Association
Sacred Mountain Society
St. Margaret’s Bay Regional Tourism Development Association
Scott Walking Adventures
Science and the Management of Protected Areas Association
Shubenacadie Watershed Environmental Protection Association
Sierra Club of Canada
South Shore Naturalists
Tobeatic Wilderness Committee
Tourism Industry Association of Nova Scotia
Tusket River Environmental Protection Association
Woodens River Watershed Environmental Organization



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