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'A new wilderness area in Nova Scotia's Guysborough County will protect 300
hectares of old-growth forest as well as a lake that has been identified by a
mining company as a water source for a proposed gold mine.
The Archibald Lake Wilderness Area will encompass 684 hectares of forest,
wetland and three lakes that feed into a tributary of the St. Marys River, one
of Nova Scotia's longest rivers.
The area also provides habitat for the endangered mainland moose and Canada
warbler.
Greg Morrow, the province's agriculture minister and the MLA who represents the
area, called it a "pristine natural gem" that "takes your breath away when you
come to it."
He spoke at a riverside event in Sherbrooke, N.S., on Monday that about 50
people attended.
Morrow said he'd been looking forward to the announcement for years, in part,
because he saw how much it meant to people when he was campaigning.
"What an impression was left on me, just everybody in the area who said to me,
'We want this area protected.' with tears in their eyes," he said.
Conservation groups have long sought protection for the area and stressed its
importance to the watershed where a salmon restoration project has seen
success.'
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