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April, 2003 No. 35
UP COMING EVENTS !
April 26th - Annual Jemseg Waterfowl Tour (tentative date) We will meet at back parking lot at Tim Hortons (centre of town)at 9 A.M. to carpool, then head out on a tour that always includes sightings of many ducks, osprey, eagles, herons, and maybe owls and painted turtles. Dress warmly and bring your lunch, water, binoculars and camera. We will return to Sussex later in afternoon.
April 28 - Brent Stanley of the Sussex Fish and Game Association will speak on "The Kennebacasis River Restoration Project." 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul's United Church in Sussex.
May 16-18 Long weekend trip to Grand Manan (Jim and Carol have probably given you the info. on this)
May 26 - Dr. Jim Goltz will give us an Update on the West Nile Virus in Canada and NB. 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul's United Church in Sussex.
May 31-June 1 NBFN Annual meeting in Fredericton with all kinds of Field Trips planned (see list included in write-up on Annual Meeting) Plan to register and take advantage of the many outings being planned. For further information contact Gart Bishop at 433-4994 or Diane Mercier-Allain at (506) 450-6365.
June 14th - Walk and Potluck at Anderson's Holiday Farm in Newtown. Tom Anderson will lead the walk on his property which has a wealth of flora and fauna along with an interesting variety of animals and birds, both wild and domesticated. A list for the potluck supper will be circulated at the meeting in May, along with more details on this special outing.
NBFN Summer Camps
Camps are being held in:
St. Andrews at the Huntsman Marine Science Center (English):
for children 9-11, July 13-19;
for children 11-14, August 10-15.
Moncton at the University of Moncton (French)
for children 9-13, July 27th to August 1.
For further information:
phone Marieka Arnold at: (506) 459-4209
visit the web site: www.naturenb.ca
email: nbfn@nb.aibn.com
Botanical Web Site Launch
With the assistance of the Wildlife Trust Fund and the UNB Biology Department a botanical web site of interest to New Brunswick naturalists has been launched by the Connell Memorial Herbarium at UNB Fredericton - www.unb.ca/herbarium
The primary focus of the web site is to make more accessible to the public, the data from the 55,000+ dried plant specimens currently housed in the Connell Memorial Herbarium at UNB. The collection includes almost all 1644 plant species found in New Brunswick as well as plants from around the globe. The Connell Memorial Herbarium is the oldest extant institutional herbarium in Canada and has specimens dating back to the 1830's. Currently, approximately 7000 records, all from New Brunswick, are available for searching.
Also included on the web site are:
- An introduction to the herbarium and herbarium practices
- Reference maps of New Brunswick
- An intriguing history of plant collecting in New Brunswick by C.M. Young
- A guide to plant collecting techniques and ethics
- Links to other sites of interest to New Brunswick naturalists
A species list for New Brunswick, a list of S1 and S2 (rare and endangered) plants in New Brunswick and number of lists compiled by the late Hal Hinds, author of the Flora of New Brunswick, of rare species found