{"id":6571,"date":"2024-05-10T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T20:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=6571"},"modified":"2024-05-10T19:23:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T23:23:07","slug":"hrm-purchases-new-land-in-significant-expansion-of-wilderness-park-haligonia-ca-10may2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=6571","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Municipality&#8217;s purchase of land near Shaw Wilderness Park&#8221; &#8211; HRM 10May2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6572\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-10-at-5.12.29-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6572\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6572\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-10-at-5.12.29-PM-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-10-at-5.12.29-PM-300x300.png 300w, http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-10-at-5.12.29-PM-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screen-Shot-2024-05-10-at-5.12.29-PM.png 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Approximately 46 hectares of undeveloped land near Shaw Wilderness Park.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Halifax Regional Municipality has purchased four parcels of land totaling approximately 46 hectares, located to the west of Shaw Wilderness Park, in Halifax.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The municipality intends to use most of this land to add to Shaw Wilderness Park, providing additional opportunities for wilderness recreation and nature appreciation. These acquisitions align with the municipality\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/city-hall\/budget-finances\/budget\/strategic-priorities-plan\">2021-25 Strategic Priorities Plan<\/a> in obtaining land to contribute to the municipality\u2019s regional wilderness parks&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/home\/news\/municipalitys-purchase-land-near-shaw-wilderness-park\">Read more on Halifax.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<br \/>\nSome of the landscape<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_220\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AsetColpittStrDSC06432LG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-220\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AsetColpittStrDSC06432LG-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" class=\"size-large wp-image-220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AsetColpittStrDSC06432LG-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AsetColpittStrDSC06432LG-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AsetColpittStrDSC06432LG.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>The stream corridor between Colpitt and Williams Lake<\/strong>. Photo by David P, Oct 4, 2013<br \/>\n<em>Click on image for larger version<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Halifax Regional Municipality has purchased four parcels of land totaling approximately 46 hectares, located to the west of Shaw Wilderness Park, in Halifax. &#8220;The municipality intends to use most of this land to add to Shaw Wilderness Park, providing &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=6571\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15,26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-conservation","category-regional-plan","category-shaw-wilderness-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571","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=6571"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6583,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6571\/revisions\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}