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The publicland.ca website has this to say about the Long
Lake area....
http://www.publicland.ca/easthants.html
Quote:
“ Proposed Long Lake Wilderness Area
There
are dozens of "Long Lakes" in Nova Scotia. This one lies in the midst
of old growth forest in central Hants County. The towering white and red pines
at Long Lake make up one of the largest old forest concentrations in central
Nova Scotia. The site also boasts several thousand feet of undeveloped lake
frontage.
**It is one of only four counties in Nova
Scotia without a single acre of designated Wilderness Area.
**Just 168 of the County's 313,050 hectares
are protected (0.05% of the County).
** The
Province considers the level of land protection to be "inadequate"
for seven of the eight natural regions found in the County.
** The
County's population is expected to increase by 24% by 2021.
** It
is being logged faster than most other regions.
Crown lands account for just 12% of Hants County, compared to 28%
province-wide. The low proportion of public
land is the main reason for the lack of protected spaces. Yet a
1998 evaluation of Crown lands in central Nova Scotia
by the Ecology Action Centre found that many of the County's public lands merit
protection to safeguard old forests, tourism and recreation values,
watercourses, and to provide adequate landscape representation.
In
September 2000 the Municipality of East Hants called on the provincial
government to legally protect five tracts of public wilderness within the
municipality: South Maitland, Long Lake, Devils Jaws, and two sites at Nine
Mile River. Their resolution also called for a development moratorium in these
areas. Council also called for a Wilderness Area assessment of the County's
largest Crown land block near Stanley.”
End Quote.
If
it was important in 1999 and before, and if other parts of the Municipality of
East Hants can have their heritage/protected/public lands enhanced, then why is
it that Mount Uniacke continues to be overlooked, ignored, and shut out? But, they still take our tax dollars!!!!!!!
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