Implementation cannot so far be judged a success.
Professor William Lahey was enlisted by the Nova Scotian government to publish The Independent Review of Forestry Practices in Nova Scotia in 2018 (see full report here). In November of 2021, Lahey published his assessment on the implementation of the recommendations he made in the original report, to transition our province to ecological forestry. In few words, Lahey writes, "my big conclusion is that implementation cannot so far be judged a success.”
We encourage you to read the full assessment as well as a press release from several provincial organizations calling for a moratorium on all forest harvesting on public lands until Lahey Report recommendations are implemented:
We encourage you to read the full assessment as well as a press release from several provincial organizations calling for a moratorium on all forest harvesting on public lands until Lahey Report recommendations are implemented:
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A group of eight different provincial environmental and community organizations from across Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia held a press conference on December 8 in Halifax calling on the Nova Scotia government for an immediate moratorium on all forest harvesting on Crown lands until the recommendations from William Lahey’s 2018 forestry report are fully implemented and operational. The call comes following the recent evaluation by Professor Lahey highlighting the province’s ongoing failure to implement recommendations from his 2018 report and change destructive forest harvesting practices in the province.
Several media outlets have published stories discussing Lahey's recognition of the lack of change in industrial forestry practices on the ground.
More stories still have been published about the press release calling for a moratorium on all forest harvesting on public lands until Lahey Report recommendations are implemented:
