{"id":2053,"date":"2012-12-11T15:03:27","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T19:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=2053"},"modified":"2016-04-30T06:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T09:42:27","slug":"nova-scotia-aquires-bowater-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"Nova Scotia aquires Bowater Lands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/ch_article_slider_thumb\/articles\/bow_0.jpg\" alt=\"forest\" width=\"110\" \/><br \/>\nMany have been expecting that the province would buy the  Bowater lands (555,000 acres in total), and a deal was announced today. Amongst many beneficiaries, it&#8217;s good news for wildlife in the Blue Mt.-Birch Cove Lakes and Five Bridge Lakes Wilderness Areas as the adjacent, much larger St. Margaret&#8217;s Bay District Bowater Lands will be under provincial control. The province has asked groups  to submit proposals to operate Crown forestlands in their communities as &#8220;community forests&#8221; a move described as &#8220;a huge opportunity for Nova Scotians to pull together and find creative solutions for our economy and our environment\u201d. <a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/novascotia\/237791-province-buys-bowater-lands\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many have been expecting that the province would buy the Bowater lands (555,000 acres in total), and a deal was announced today. Amongst many beneficiaries, it&#8217;s good news for wildlife in the Blue Mt.-Birch Cove Lakes and Five Bridge Lakes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=2053\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}