CBC:
- Logging paused at Goldsmith after SAR identified
- NS Art show celebrates love for lichens
- Music Festival to Save Our Old Forests coming Friday
- Mainstreet: SOOFSTOCK Coming to Annapolis County
- Signs of Old-Growth Forest Found in Annapolis County
HALIFAX EXAMINER
- Halt to logging at Goldsmith Lake
- Citizen Scientists request logging freeze
- Citizen Scientists meet with DNRR about Goldsmith Lake
- Citizen Scientists concerned logging holds lifted at Goldsmith Lake
- Saving Old forests in Nova Scotia
SALTWIRE
- Lichen again put harvest plan on hold
- AFPS and Citizen Scientists launch campaign
- For the Love of Lichens & Old Forests art show opens!
- Summer music festival to help preserve old forests
Shared Ground Podcast
Join Amanda Bostlund as she meets with various folks in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia) and beyond to talk about forests as our shared ground, for all species, humans and not. Shared Ground explores the incredible value of thriving forests, methods and mindsets for their protection, and regenerative solutions for how we interact with and within them.
Other NewS Sources
“Bursting the Stubble Bubble: Citizen Scientists Measure Ecological Continuity Near Goldsmith Lake, Nova Scotia Using Calicioid Lichens and Fungi,” Ashlea Viola, Nina Newington, Jonathan Riley, Steven Selva, and Lisa Proulx Evansia 41(1), 9-18, (17 April 2024). https://doi.org/10.1639/0747-9859-41.1.9
Abstract: In an effort to protect a forest on provincial land near Goldsmith Lake in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, from timber harvest operations, a group of citizen scientists began documenting the biodiversity of the area. In December 2022, the group invited Dr. Steven Selva, a lichenologist specializing in calicioid lichens and fungi, to visit and teach them how to locate and collect calicioid specimens. We found 27 calicioid species, one of which was new to the Maritimes, providing additional evidence that the forest is rich in biodiversity and that the areas recognized as old-growth were larger than the provincial government had previously realized.
