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Please encourage businesses and organizations who haven't yet done so to support more public land wilderness in Nova Scotia. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- A word from our technicians ... 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