1. Community and Government
   
   • The Trust is a member group of the Steering Committee for the Chebucto Wilderness Coalition. Members of the Trust will continue to support the work of the Chebucto Wilderness Coalition to protect public lands on the Chebucto Peninsula under the Wilderness Areas Protection Act. .

    

2. Membership
   
   •  Focus membership attention on the Trust’s main goal of wilderness protection, by emphasizing the need to involve members of all HRM communities
   • Engage members more actively in our work
   • Trust to consider redefining membership to include household memberships

    

3. Communications
   
   • Publish The Bridge 4 times a year
   • Organize COCO Meetings- January, March, May, September, November
   • Prepare and distribute articles and announcements of meetings to The Masthead News and other newspapers and publications
   • Maintain Trust website
   • Organize Community Education Meetings as required
   • Examine the possibility of establishing website cross linkages with other organizations

    

4. Community Education
   
   • May Fair in the Park (spring celebration and sharing the work of the Trust with the public, May 24, 2009) Jerry Lawrence Provincial Park at Lewis Lake
   • Complete setting up several geo-cache sites to encourage familiarity with the public lands bounded by Highways 103 and 333
   • Publish A Walking Guide to the Old St. Margaret’s Bay Road
   • Consider reprinting the brochure Flora of The Bluff Wilderness Hiking Trail
   • Continue to take part in Community Forums to publicize our work
   • Look at the possibility of setting up a booth at a sportsman show /other public venue to show case our work and increase our membership

    

5. GIS Mapping
   
   • Ongoing recording of heritage sites as they become known
   • Rethink how we share information from GIS database with the public

    

6. Environmental Monitoring
   
   • Prospect River Water Quality Monitoring - Collaboration: FBWHT,  Goodwood/Prospect Rd Groups, and Department of Inland Fisheries.
   • Wooden’s River Water Quality Monitoring - Collaboration: FBWHT, WRWEO, SMBSA, Trout NS and Department of Inland Fisheries .
   • Discuss further with Department of Environment the proposed Wetlands Restoration project on the Joshua Slocum Trail, assist with establishing a collaboration among educational, recreational and environmental groups as required.

    

7. Clean-up Campaign
   
   • Remove trash and garbage from along K Roads.

    

8. Fundraising
• Trust Executive to revisit Trust finances and devise a fundraising action plan.

 

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