Minas Basin Working
Group Meeting - June 19, 2007
AGENDA
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Introductions
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Review of agenda
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Minutes and action items of
past meetings
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Presentation by Don Aldous,
MAP, Dalhousie University.
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Status of BoFEP and its
funding
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Work plan for 2007-08.
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Work plan items for
2006-07 – update on accomplishments/progress.
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Round table – members
activities re Minas Basin
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Contributions to the EOR
for Minas Basin.
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A second Windsor Causeway
Forum?
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Drafting the ’07-08 work
plan
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Ideas for continued funding
of joint projects.
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Other business
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Next Meeting – Tuesday Sept.
18th.
Please note that
the June meeting will be the last formally scheduled one of the summer until
September.
It is
important that members who are active on the Group and have ideas for its
continued program attend.
If you have
any additional agendy items for the June meeting please forward them to Peter
Wells at oceans1@ns.sympatico.ca.
Time & Tide -
(Nature Canada 2007, August 1–5, Wolfville, NS)
The topic is the Bay of Fundy and its watershed. The occasion is the 23rd annual
conference and AGM of Nature Canada (the former Canadian Nature Federation). The
location is the Acadia University campus, and the dates are August 1 to August
5, this summer (2007).
The Nature Canada conference is held in a different part of the country each
summer. Naturalists from all parts of Canada (and some from the US) come
together to visit and learn and meet new people with similar interests. In 1994,
the Halifax Field Naturalists hosted the conference in Halifax. This year,
Nature Nova Scotia (the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) is the host –
with a lot of help from the Blomidon Naturalists.
This is a really good opportunity to meet other naturalists and enjoy a
wonderful part of your own province, or even to take part as a volunteer. On
offer are three mornings of informative and entertaining talks on all sorts of
topics related to the Bay of Fundy. And each afternoon we’ll be going on field
trips covering all those topics, and more. Following long tradition, early
mornings will feature birding and walking trips before breakfast, and evenings
will be very social, with abundant local foods, entertainment, and general
partying and getting to know our fellow naturalists.
One of the reasons for choosing early August is the annual shorebird migration
in the Minas Basin, which is at its peak at that time of year. It will also be a
time of spring tides, so the mudflats will be especially impressive, and the
tidal bores will be in full flood.
We (the conference planners) hope you’ll want to come to Wolfville for the first
week of August. It’s not expensive, and it will be a lot of fun. It’s easy to
register: Just go to the website
http://nature2007.ca,
read all about it, and either download a registration form or register on line.
If you’re not web enabled, call the registrar, Claire Diggins, at 902 825-6152 –
she’ll send you what you need. (You can also seek further information by e-mail:
conference_info@fundymud.com.)
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