In Nova Scotia, the public directly or indirectly does not pay to restore mining lands. It's a legal and legislated obligation of the mining companies. Why should sportsmen pay anywhere to "make good" industrial landscape disturbances? Why do Pennsylvanis hunters put up with it? In Nova Scotia, it's also a legal and legislated obligation of forestry companies to pay for forest management to high international environmental standards on public and private lands from which they derive their wood. With no modesty, I was the gunslinger on that one.
