White Lake Wilderness Area

The White Lake Wilderness Area is a wilderness area located in Nova Scotia, Canada, in Halifax Regional Municipality.[1] Several trails, all owned by the Musquodoboit Trailways Association, pass through it; Gibraltar Rock Loop, White Lake Wilderness Trails, the Musquodoboit Rail Trail, the Bayers Lake Loop, and the Admiral Lake loop.[2]

White Lake Wilderness Area
IUCN category Ib (wilderness area)
LocationNova Scotia, Canada
Nearest cityMusquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Coordinates44°51′09″N 63°11′00″W
Area4,540 ha (45.4 km2)
Governing bodyNova Scotia Department of Natural Resources

The Wilderness area was established in the early 1990s as a commitment to protect certain areas of Nova Scotia that displayed unique terrain, fauna and/or flora. In the case of the White Lake Wilderness Area, this flora and fauna is rugged, lake-strewn, conifer forest. Inside the wilderness area are some 350-million-year-old bare granite ridges and knolls, White Spruce and Balsam Fir forests, with some groves of 100-year-old hemlock and the occasional large White Pine. Hardwoods, including White Birch, Red Maple, and Sugar Maple, can be found in some of the more protected valleys. [3]

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References
  1. "MTA - Musquodoboit Trailways Association". Mta-ns.ca. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  2. "White Lake Wilderness Area | Protected Areas | Nova Scotia Environment". Gov.ns.ca. 2009-04-01. Retrieved 2012-05-27.
  3. https://novascotia.ca/nse/protectedareas/wa_whitelake.asp
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