{"id":5961,"date":"2023-10-07T09:34:06","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T13:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=5961"},"modified":"2023-10-08T06:49:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T10:49:26","slug":"mon-oct-23-2023-fires-conservation-and-fire-management-in-the-halifax-backlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=5961","title":{"rendered":"Mon Oct 23, 2023 Fires, Conservation and Fire Management in the Halifax Backlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3310\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nswildflora.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC00958enPleinAirb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3310\" src=\"http:\/\/nswildflora.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/DSC00958enPleinAirb-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3310\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Geoffrey Grantham and Ron\u00a0Kuwahara paint <em>en plein air<\/em> in the Jack Pine-Crowberry barrens on Nov 2, 2015<\/strong>, 6 years after 2009 &#8216;Spryfield Fire&#8217;.<br \/><em>Click on image for larger version<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Online presentation by David Patriquin to the NS Wild Flora Society, 7:30 p.m. Monday Oct 23, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBacklands\u201d, located only a few kilometers from from peninsular Halifax, NS, are a Thompsonesque urban wilderness of approximately 1350 hectares which include nine lakes, hills with spectacular views and dozens of kilometers of informal hiking and biking trails. Erratic blocks, whalebacks and boulder fields are prominent features of the glacially scoured rocky landscape. It is also one of the most fire-susceptible landscapes in Nova Scotia, with recurrent fires pre-dating European settlement. One result is the presence of highly fire-adapted plant communities including the globally rare \u2018Jack Pine\/Broom Crowberry Barrens\u2019&#8230; Read more and register via\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/nswildflora.ca\/2023\/10\/07\/mon-oct-23-2023-members-meeting-via-zoom-fires-conservation-and-fire-management-in-the-halifax-backlands\/\">NSWFS website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online presentation by David Patriquin to the NS Wild Flora Society, 7:30 p.m. Monday Oct 23, 2023. The \u201cBacklands\u201d, located only a few kilometers from from peninsular Halifax, NS, are a Thompsonesque urban wilderness of approximately 1350 hectares which include &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=5961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5961"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5967,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5961\/revisions\/5967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}