{"id":8251,"date":"2025-08-30T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8251"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:08:14","slug":"woods-ban-lifted-for-parts-of-nova-scotia-inlcuding-the-backlands-29aug2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8251","title":{"rendered":"Woods Ban lifted for parts of Nova Scotia including the Backlands 29Aug2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8866\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.novascotia.ca\/en\/2025\/08\/29\/woods-restrictions-lifted-some-counties-remain-others\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8866\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8866\" src=\"https:\/\/nsforestmatters.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-30-at-4.56.38-PM-300x154.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8866\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on image to go to NS Gov News Release<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/nova-scotia\/long-lake-wildfire-update-friday-aug-29-1.7621304\"><strong>Woods ban lifted for parts of Nova Scotia <\/strong><\/a>by Anjuli Patil \u00b7 CBC News, Aug 29, 2025:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Houston said Friday that a province wide ban would end for some areas at 4 p.m., but the ban remains for several counties&#8230;&#8221;The professionals have determined that for some areas of the province, the [fire] index is no longer extreme and no longer expected to reach extreme numbers again and anytime in the near future,&#8221; Houston said&#8230;the woods restrictions are ending in the following counties: Cape Breton, Richmond. Victoria. Inverness. Guysborough. Antigonish. Halifax.&#8221; Restrictions on entering the woods have been in effect since Aug. 5.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Woods ban lifted for parts of Nova Scotia by Anjuli Patil \u00b7 CBC News, Aug 29, 2025: Houston said Friday that a province wide ban would end for some areas at 4 p.m., but the ban remains for several &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=8251\">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":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-fire-ecology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8251"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8251\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}