{"id":3810,"date":"2017-04-25T18:42:12","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?page_id=3810"},"modified":"2026-03-08T11:47:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:47:56","slug":"conservation-issues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?page_id=3810","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Conservation Committee of the Halifax Field Naturalists are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>David Patriquin<br \/>\nClarence Stevens Jr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DNR-Letter.pdf\">7 March 2026 Letter to the Premier: \u00a0Request to Reconsider Elimination of Wildlife Division at DNR<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BMBCL-Sandy-Lake.pdf\">17 November 2025 Letter to the Premier: \u00a0Protecting Sandy Lake and Blue Mountain &#8211; Birch Cove Lakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ongoing conservation issues \u00a0(since April 2017):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?cat=10\">The status of Blue Mountain Birch Coves Lakes Regional Park<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3742\">The development of a Green Network for Halifax<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/HFNdocNSDNR26Apr2017.pdf\">Concerns about the impact of extensive clearcutting on biodiversity and ecosystem services<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Conservation Committee of the Halifax Field Naturalists are: David Patriquin Clarence Stevens Jr. 7 March 2026 Letter to the Premier: \u00a0Request to Reconsider Elimination of Wildlife Division at DNR 17 November 2025 Letter to the Premier: \u00a0Protecting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?page_id=3810\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":103,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3810"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3810\/revisions\/6692"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}