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URGENT! please circulate widely >-------------------------------------------------- > >Let's talk about Clearcutting in Nova Scotia. > >upcoming events: > >May 10: Focus on Clearcutting in Nova Scotia public forum >May 14: Picnic in a Clearcut > >May 7 - May 13, 2000, is National Forestry Week in Canada.One forestry topic >that has generated considerable debate, emotion, and discussion in recent >years is clearcutting. As roughly 98.9% of forestry in Nova Scotia is done by >clearcutting, the practice has widespread effects on the landscape and the >economy. Proposed government forestry initiatives do not aim to curtail the >practice. > >Focus on Clearcutting Public Forum > >Come participate in a full day Public Forum on Clearcutting in Wednesday, >May 10, 2000 at the DalTech (TUNS) Architecture Building on the corner of >Spring Garden Rd. and Queen St. in Halifax. Drop by or stay all day. > >Daytime sessions: Three series of presentations on various aspects of >clearcutting are planned throughout the day. In each session four to five >speakers give short presentations (10 minutes), followed by questions from >the floor. > >The sessions for May 10 are as follows: > >9:30am - 11:30am: Clearcut economics: the costs/benefits of >clearcutting 12:00 - 2:00pm: Clearcutting exposed: a visual tour >2:30 - 4:30pm: Beyond clearcutting: re-valuing our forests > >At 7:00pm we will be hosting an evening panel discussion on the question: >ìIs it time to stop Clearcutting in Nova Scotia? > >Panelists will include: > >Ron Colman, GPI Atlantic >Elizabeth May, Sierra Club of Canada >Wade Prest, Forestex Ltd. >Peter Duinker, SRES at Dalhousie > >Other event: Picnic in a Clearcut > >This event will be held on a giant clearcut in Liscomb Game Sanctuary on May >14, 2000. Phone Pam Langille at (902) 827-5194 for more information. > >These events are being organized by the Nova Scotia Environmental Network >Forests Caucus. Thanks to Canada Trust Friends of the Environment Fund for >their support. > >******************************************************* >Kermit deGooyer >Halifax, NS >(902) 492-4340 > >PS - Last Call for Wilderness on Nova Scotia's Public Lands! >http://www.publicland.ca > > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > nspirg nova scotia public interest research group 6136 university ave halifax, ns b3h 4j2 902-494-6662 nspirg@is2.dal.ca executive director : linda pannozzo -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Overloaded with email? Sust-mar has a DIGEST version. If you'd prefer to receive a compilation of sust-mar messages twice monthly instead of daily, send email to <majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca> As the text of your message type "subscribe sust-mar-digest" And on the next line, type "unsubscribe sust-mar" Voila! Daily messages will stop, and twice-monthly will start.
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