[ValleyNature] Concern re: Palmeter Woods

[James W. Wolford]

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> From: Richard Stern <sternrichard at gmail.com>
> Date: May 26, 2010 11:37:08 AM ADT
> To: NatureNS <naturens at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Subject: [NatureNS] Concern re: Palmeter Woods
> Reply-To: naturens at chebucto.ns.ca
>
> Many of you will have sen references here to the area of woodland  
> in W.Kentville known unofficially as Palmeter Woods. It lies in  
> what used (?) to be the Kentville Federal Migratory Bird Sanctuary.  
> There are a number of walking trails, used by local hikers, dog- 
> walkers, X-country skiers and naturalists. There is a huge, ugly  
> open sand pit to the west, behind the property "Seven Bridges". As  
> Andy Dean pointed out the other day, there is currently some earth  
> moving equipment digging up the ground in 1 area in there, and the  
> beautiful old oak tree that several people designated one of NS's  
> important trees in a recent survey, has had a number of limbs  
> chopped off to allow access.
>
> After a number of local enquiries I have learned that they are  
> testing the sand in there to see if it is of enough commercial  
> value to extract it (which would presumably mean chopping down the  
> woods and digging another huge sand pit if it is). This is not  
> within the Bird Sanctuary - it's on private land , and is posted  
> "Private Property". The public are presumably allowed to use the  
> area with their unwritten consent.
>
> I have little experience with dealing with this kind of issue, and  
> furthermore I have a personal conflict of interest in that I do not  
> wish to get on the wrong side of the land-owner, whom I know, for  
> totally unrelated reasons. Also, I wouldn't want the land-owner to  
> prevent access to the area because he is annoyed with  
> environmentalists,  but ..... is there any way for an environmental  
> group, or the public, or whoever, to monitor this, and is there any  
> way to preserve these woods and prevent them being turned into an  
> environmentally disastrous sand-pit?
>
> Richard
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> Richard Stern,
> 317 Middle Dyke Rd.
> Port Williams, NS, Canada
> B0P 1T0
>
> sternrichard at gmail.com
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