Lands in Cape Breton and Guysborough County are set to become Nova Scotia’s newest wilderness areas.
Public consultation opens today, August 21, on protecting 5,100 more hectares of Nova Scotia’s land and water, including three new wilderness areas, additions to seven existing wilderness areas, and an addition to one existing nature reserve.
Nova Scotians can provide input until October 20.
Guysborough Headlines Wilderness Area (Nova Scotia Government photo)
One of the new wilderness areas includes the Masons Mountain Wilderness Area in Inverness County. Local additions to existing wilderness areas includes 529 hectares for the Canso Coastal Barrens Wilderness Area, 69 hectares for the Guysborough Headlands Wilderness Area, 34 hectares for the Ogden Round Lake Wilderness Area in Guysborough County, and 23 hectares for the Polletts Cove-Aspy Fault Wilderness Area in Victoria County.
The addition to existing nature reserves is 107 hectares for the Chimney Corner Nature Reserve in Inverness County.
