{"id":3540,"date":"2016-06-29T23:50:46","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3540"},"modified":"2016-07-01T15:13:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T18:13:13","slug":"hrm-are-you-ready-for-the-birch-cove-rangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3540","title":{"rendered":"HRM: Are you ready for the Birch Cove Rangers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/29Jn2016Panel1500.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/29Jn2016Panel1500-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"29Jn2016Panel1500\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/29Jn2016Panel1500-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/29Jn2016Panel1500-1024x976.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/29Jn2016Panel1500.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Three-hundred plus citizens passionate about Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes (BMBCL) attended the public meeting about the planned BMBCL Regional Park this evening (June 30, 2016), which followed a <a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3483\">highly criticized Facilitator&#8217;s Report<\/a>. Two MLAs (Diana Whalen, Joachim Stroink) attended. There were only two HRM Councillors (Waye Mason &#038; Jennifer Watts) present, but several candidates who will run in the fall election were there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecologyaction.ca\/\">EAC&#8217;s<\/a> veteran BMBCL campaigner Raymond Plourde gave a history of the Regional Park and MC&#8217;d further presentations and discussions to repeated applause.<!--more--> Finally, following a presentation by the first <strong>Birch Cove Lakes Ranger<\/strong>, Jennifer MacLatchy, participants made a pledge to be Birch Cove Lake Rangers. It was a light-hearted action but those who pledged (most if not all present) were very serious about their commitment to follow-up as needed to ensure the BMBCL Regional Park is developed as originally conceived. <\/p>\n<p>If you missed it all, you can still view Jennifer&#8217;s wonderful <a href=\"https:\/\/birchcoveranger.wordpress.com\/\">Birch Cove Ranger blog<\/a>, listen to 300 or so citizens making the <a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/mtgBMBCL\/BMBCLaudioPledge1.wav\">Pledge<\/a> and<a href=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?cat=10\"> read posts<\/a> about events leading up yesterday&#8217;s meeting.  See also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metronews.ca\/news\/halifax\/2016\/06\/29\/hundreds-turn-out-to-blue-mountain-birch-cove-public-meeting.html\">Metro News report<\/a> about the meeting<\/p>\n<p>Please be sure to write\/phone Regional Councillors to express your support for BMBCL Regional Park before 3 pm, Monday July 4:<br \/>\n&#8211;  E-mail the city of Halifax  at clerks@halifax.ca OR<br \/>\n&#8211; write a letter to the Municipal Clerk by mail, P.O. Box 1749, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 3A5; by fax, 902-490-4208.<br \/>\nRemember that July 4th is the Monday after the long Canada Day weekend, so you might want to do this before Canada Day (July 1).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three-hundred plus citizens passionate about Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes (BMBCL) attended the public meeting about the planned BMBCL Regional Park this evening (June 30, 2016), which followed a highly criticized Facilitator&#8217;s Report. Two MLAs (Diana Whalen, Joachim Stroink) attended. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540"}],"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=3540"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3540\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}