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Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes profiled in special CBC report

March 24, 2005

As part of a weeklong special series on the new Halifax Regional Municipality "master plan" planning process, CBC Television profiled the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes - perhaps the most immediately endangered public wilderness area in the province. City planners have listed this area as an important wilderness corridor that should be preserved. The Nova Scotia Public Lands Coalition and local citizens have been calling for its protection for years. But without cooperation from the provincial government - in the form of legal protection - this valuable urban green space will probably be destroyed forever in the very near future.

"One of the struggles for planners is how to balance the need to grow with the need to protect what's already there: The rivers, parks, and wildlife Nova Scotia cherishes. As Pam Berman reports, some wonder if the plan will have the teeth to really protect the environment."

Click here to see the CBC Special Report "Protecting Green Spaces"
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