{"id":4543,"date":"2019-11-05T05:38:49","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T09:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2019-11-05T05:38:49","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T09:38:49","slug":"halifaxs-urban-wilderness-is-a-place-to-leave-cares-behind-nature-enthusiasts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4543","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Halifax&#8217;s urban wilderness is a place to leave cares behind, nature enthusiasts say&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantic.ctvnews.ca\/halifax-s-urban-wilderness-is-a-place-to-leave-cares-behind-nature-enthusiasts-say-1.4669492\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/polopoly_fs\/1.4669514.1572894611!\/httpImage\/image.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/landscape_620\/image.jpg\" alt=\"CPress Image\" width = \"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantic.ctvnews.ca\/halifax-s-urban-wilderness-is-a-place-to-leave-cares-behind-nature-enthusiasts-say-1.4669492\">A Canadian Press article on CTV news<\/a> highights Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes. &#8220;Geoffrey Grantham sits painting the granite slope and wind-blown jack pine reflected in the waters of a Nova Scotia lake, his mind far from the busy city just a short walk away. It only took minutes for the 48-year-old artist to hike from a big-box retail hub in Halifax&#8217;s west end into the tranquility of the Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes urban wilderness. He is among the growing number of eco-tourists &#8212; ranging from painters and bird watchers to walkers and canoeists &#8212; who journey to this area, often by bus, bike or on foot&#8230;&#8221;  Artist Geoffey Grantham, veteran canoe-kayaker Dusan Soudec, Friends of Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes and Halifax North West Trails Association are all cited &#8211; and the long road to actually seeing the area as a Regional Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Canadian Press article on CTV news highights Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes. &#8220;Geoffrey Grantham sits painting the granite slope and wind-blown jack pine reflected in the waters of a Nova Scotia lake, his mind far from the busy city just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4543\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543"}],"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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4545,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions\/4545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}