Nova Scotia’s forestry transition team will spend $7 million on silviculture work and forest road building, a move Premier Stephen McNeil says should keep up to 300 people working in the woods as usual for the next year.
The money will be for programs on Crown and private land in central and western Nova Scotia and is on top of what the province already spends.
“We want to make sure that all of those lands continue to be maintained and supported,” McNeil told reporters following the team’s inaugural meeting.
“Whether [Northern Pulp] reopens or not, we need the expertise of those who have been working on the ground and private woodlot owners who have been, in some cases for generations, nurturing hundreds of acres of land in our province and making a living off it and handing a better piece of land over to the next generation.”
Source: Nova Scotia’s forestry transition team to spend $7M on silviculture | CBC News