We welcome submissions from anyone who wants to explain in their own words why the sale of Owls Head must be stopped. Anyone who has an articulate and valuable opinion to add to the cause of protecting this special place may submit articles to be published here.
Shared on January 21, 2020 Dear Chris: Thank you for being in touch about the important issue of Owls Head and its sudden removal from the provinces list of protected areas. As you may well know, Owls Head has been on a list of protected areas since the Our Parks Read more…
Imagine that Cathy Jones and company from “This Hour has Twenty Two Minutes” air a skit, in which they try to play golf on the coastal headland, formerly known as Owls Head Provincial Park… now turned topsy-turvy with tawdry turf.
Eighteen plagues, one for each hole are forthcoming :
1/ Black flies, gouging flesh from ears like a divot from a fairway,
2/ Clouds of mosquitoes sucking blood from the tanned forearms of those who came to relax and suck bloody Marys,
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January 16, 2020
To: Iain Rankin, Minister of Natural Resources and Forestry, Province of Nova Scotia
From: Martin Willison, retired professor of biology and environmental studies, Dalhousie University
Dear Minister Rankin (Iain),
I am reluctantly re-emerging from a prolonged holiday break from social media. I know I’m not alone… January is now hitting with force and fury and a full calendar.
I’m past due to comment on the Owl’s Head story that began emerging on Dec. 18. That afternoon, I was on my way to a true pre-Christmas break – in a small off-grid cabin at Windhorse Farm – when I heard on CBC radio that the Nova Scotia Liberal cabinet had quietly removed Owl’s Head Provincial Park – as it’s been known since the 1980s – from a list of crown land parcels waiting permanent designation and protection as protected areas. (more…)
Shared to the Save Little Harbour/Owls Head Nova Scotia From Becoming Golf Courses Facebook Group by founder Sydnee Lynn McKay on January 14, 2020. Shared with permission.
Dear Ms. McKay:
I am responding to your letter of January 12, 2020 regarding Crown lands located at Little Harbour, Nova Scotia, also referred to as Owl’s Head. I confirm that the Department of Lands and Forestry (the Department) has entered into a Letter of Offer to potentially sell the Crown lands (LOO). The LOO sets out the terms and conditions between the parties, but it does not approve the potential sale. When the Department receives an application to sell Crown lands, it is reviewed following relevant processes. The transaction under review to sell the Crown lands referred to as Owls Head will undergo the usual due diligence reviews and assessments, including seeking approval by Cabinet before it would be sold.
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Further to Jim Vibert’s Jan. 6 column on the provincial government’s planned conversion of Eastern Shore’s Owls Head Park Reserve to a golf course, readers may recall that Nature Nova Scotia and two other groups took the province to the Supreme Court last September over its failure to enact its own species-at-risk legislation. Wildlife cannot survive without suitable habitats. Owl’s Head is one more example of the government’s callous disregard for species at risk, and public consultation.
(more…)Jim Vibert
The Chronicle Herald
January 6, 2020
Nova Scotia’s Parks and Protected Areas (PAPA) plan grew out of extensive public consultations, but last spring the government secretly removed one of the proposed protected areas from the list and hid its handiwork from public view.
(more…)January 3, 2020
We commend Sydnee Lynn and Paula Jane Milsom for their initiative in meeting with Eastern Shore MLA Kevin Murphy. Thank you for giving a voice to the numerous citizens concerned about the secret delisting and potential sale of Owls Head Provincial Park. Please allow the videos a minute to load.