{"id":57507,"date":"2025-08-05T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=57507"},"modified":"2025-08-05T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T19:30:00","slug":"hrm-advises-residents-of-restrictions-on-woods-in-municipal-park-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=57507","title":{"rendered":"HRM advises residents of restrictions on woods in municipal park spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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HALIFAX\/FALL RIVER:<\/strong> The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that, due to the Fire Proclamation \u2013 Travel Ban<\/a> issued by the Province of Nova Scotia on Aug. 5 restrictions will be placed on access to the woods in municipal park spaces, effective 4 p.m. Aug. 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These restrictions will remain in place until 2 p.m. on Oct. 15, 2025, unless the province\u2019s proclamation is revoked or amended by further notice.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woods, as defined in the provincial Forests Act,<\/em> include forested land, rock barren, brush land, dry marsh, bog or muskeg.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parks that are all woods will be fully closed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parks with non-woods areas \u2013 such as green spaces, playgrounds, sports fields and ball diamonds \u2013 will remain open for use.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At McDonald Sports Park in Waverley<\/strong>, all trails in the park are closed to all users in compliance with the province-wide ban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For parks which have both woods and non-woods areas, the woods are closed and the non-wooded areas remain open. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

An example of this would be Fort Needham Memorial Park where the monument, playground and sports field remain open but the woods are\u00a0 closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supervised beaches in municipal parks will remain open. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If these restrictions affect any recreation programming, impacted users will be advised. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The municipality is in the process of installing signage at impacted park spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is expected to take several days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Regardless of the presence of signage, residents are required to adhere to these restrictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information on the provincial notice of restricting travel and activities in the woods is available in the Province of Nova Scotia\u2019s news release<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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HALIFAX\/FALL RIVER: The Halifax Regional Municipality is advising residents that, due to the Fire Proclamation \u2013 Travel Ban issued by the Province of Nova Scotia on Aug. 5 restrictions will be placed on access to the woods in municipal park spaces, effective 4 p.m. Aug. 5. These restrictions will remain in place until 2 p.m. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[2,50,1777,8935,16,8936,8937],"class_list":["post-57507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-fall-river","tag-halifax","tag-halifax-regional-municipality","tag-municipal-park-spaces","tag-waverley","tag-wood","tag-wood-fires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}