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The water in Nova Scotia has also been very important to the forestry sector throughout its history. [5] The provincial government of Nova Scotia has helped with the land use planning in many areas such as the Annapolis Valley in an attempt to reduce the groundwater issues and drinking water contamination. Local governments have also sought to ...
Long Lake is a provincial park controlled by the Department of Natural Resources and Renewables of the Government of Nova Scotia (formerly called the Department of Lands and Forestry). [1] The park is not as well known as some other local public spaces despite its proximity to central Halifax and its large size, rivalling that of the Halifax ...
Located on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary, this ecoregion covers all of Prince Edward Island, the Les Îles-de-la-Madeleine of Quebec, most of east-central New Brunswick, the Annapolis Valley, Minas Basin and the Northumberland Strait coast of Nova Scotia. This area has a coastal climate of warm summers and cold and ...
Today's Nova Scotia is made of two geologic terranes. Nova Scotia has a great variety of coastal landforms. Most of the land in Nova Scotia is bedrock. As a result of erosion and transportation of unconsolidated material, landforms such as beaches and marshes are being formed. These deposits are also being eroded and/or flooded by the rising ...
The Government of Nova Scotia purchased the land currently comprising the park in 1989 and added it to the Crown land reserve, administered by the Department of Natural Resources. This land was redesignated for a provincial park in the mid-1990s and Cape Chignecto Provincial Park opened to the public in 1998 after several years of planning and ...
Cape Breton Highlands National Park is a Canadian national park on northern Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. [2] The park was the first national park in the Atlantic provinces of Canada [3] and covers an area of 948 square kilometres (366 sq mi). [4] It is one of 42 in Canada's system of national parks.
Extending over 256 hectares (630 acres), it is noted for its old-growth red spruce, some of which are 200 years old and 30 m tall, which is now a rarity in Nova Scotia. The land was donated to NCC in 1995 by Scott Paper Company and is surrounded by industrial forest lands. There is a 4.5 km hiking trail on the reserve.
As of 2015, all 40 Type I abandoned mine openings and approximately 40% of Type II openings on crown land have now been remediated. [10] In 2019, the Auditor General of Nova Scotia identified a significant control weakness relating to the Department of Lands and Forestry’s financial reporting of abandoned mine sites.
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