All across the world people are coming together to hit the streets on November 29th — hours before the most important climate summit this decade, taking place in Paris (COP21)…The Halifax march will begin at 1pm. We’ll start at Victoria Park… Read More in Halifax Media Co-op
Otter Lake Landfill in HRM Regional Council today
The important message to councillors “we need to have people telling their Councillors and provincial MLAs that HRM ought to get on with building cell 7 and stop the deception about a need to build the landfill higher.” For WRWEO comments on the Otter lake Landfill, see Link
Time for Hunter Orange
![RC is Hard to mistake for a deer](https://i0.wp.com/wrweo.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/DSC00989bb-224x300.jpg?resize=224%2C300)
Deer hunting season began Friday October 30th. The season always begins on the last Friday of October and goes to the first Saturday of December, inclusive, excluding Sundays Except the first two (new for 2016), i.e. Nov 1 and Nov 8. Wear hunter orange when you are out on The Bluff Trail and put an orange vest on your dog. Deer hunting is permitted on protected land and that includes the area of The Bluff Trail. Both hikers and hunters should use extra caution during this season. Other types of hunting are permitted for specific periods that extend outside of the deer season. Check in with the NS department of natural resources to see what applies to you.
Sat Oct 24: OPEN FOREST DAY IN HRM
On Saturday, October 24, the public is invited to come to the first ever Open Forest Day for a free, fun, and informative visit to a beautiful wilderness area that is located just outside the Halifax core. The target audience for the event, which has been organized by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources, is anyone and everyone – young and old, landowners, new Canadians, outdoor enthusiasts, and “couch potatoes.” Read more
HRM Staff release Interim Report on the Green Network Plan
This first Interim Report on the Green Network Plan will be discussed at a meeting of the COMMUNITY PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STANDING COMMITTEE on Thursday Oct 15 in the Council Chamber, City Hall, viewable online. The full interim report is available in sections at http://www.halifax.ca/HalifaxGreenNetwork/Themes.php. View Agenda for the Thursday meeting. View Item 8.3.2 Halifax Green Network Plan which includes highlights of the Interim Report. The full Interim Report bears close reading. There are 52 maps.
Thanksgiving is prime time for Witch-hazel
You won’t make a bouquet out of them, but flowers of witch-hazel do provide some colour and interest though the fall. Witch-hazel is a common understory shrub in the oak woods of The Bluff Trail. More
A sour huckleberry is prob. not a huckleberry
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It’s prime huckleberry season right now. Sometimes I have reached for what looks like a really delicious-looking cluster of huckleberries, throw them in my mouth and spit ’em out quickly. Then I look at the leaves and realize I had picked black chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa), not black huckleberry (Gaylussacia buccata). They often grow together and the berries are not readily distinguished. The leaves are superficially similar, but on inspection can be readily distinguished. Click on these pics to enlarge them and see how the leaves differ – those of chokeberry have distinct “teeth” on the margins while huckleberry has smooth margins. – David P.
The incredible Woodens River
Well attended rainy evening Hike-the-Greenbelt event
![Tristan Cleveland talks to hikers & runners before setting out Wed Aug 15](https://i0.wp.com/wrweo.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/aTristan-300x182.jpg?resize=300%2C182)