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Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:48:18 -0300
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On 9/17/2010 11:47 AM, Frederick W. Schueler wrote:

>> I'll also mention the CARCNET (Canadian Amphibian and Reptile
>> Conservation Network) meetings in Wolfville, 17-20 September.
>> see http://www.carcnet.ca/english/annual_meeting/current_meeting.p^h^p
>> (I understand from a recent thread that certain combinations of letters
>> can't appear in a natureNS post, so take the carets out of p^h^p) -
>> this is the best way to keep up with research and conservation of
>> Canadian herpetofauna.

* The CARCNET meetings have now passed, and as usual they were intense 
and exciting, with lots of students presenting on subjects ranging from 
hepatozoon diseases of frogs to waif Wood Frogs being swept across James 
Bay to relative toxicity or road salt and its additives to  interviews 
with those living with Skinks to the phylogeographic consequences of 
dirt-biking over Horned Lizard habitat. Also there were a lot of papers 
about Turtles, especially Nova Scotian Wood and Blanding's Turtles.

Some highlights were Morgan Boenke on "Home range habitat selection, and 
site fidelity of Fowler's Toads" at Long Point in Lake Erie, the 
inimitable Sara Ashpole ("Are there any employees of the BC Ministry of 
Transportation in the audience?") on "Amphibian occurrence [=slaughter] 
on South Okanagan roadways," Steve Hecnar on "Long term trends in the 
abundance of... Green Frogs," and Wendy Holman on "Nesting ecology and 
natural history of a central Nova Scotia Wood Turtle population."

The banquet speaker was David Green, who decribed methods of curing 
students of obsessive North American standards of cleanliness while 
teaching them herpetology in Kenya, by means of such methods as mud, 
mangroves and Elephants, and showed interesting pictures of unresolved 
diversity among African frogs, and of Spitting Cobras chanceily confined 
within plastic sandwich boxes.

The Silver Salamander award for regional conservation effort went to the 
Kejimkujik National Park volunteer programme and the Mersey Tobeatic 
Research Institute, while the Blue Racer award for lifetime contribution 
to Canadian Herpetology went to John Gilhen for his continuing lifetime 
of contributing thoughtful and detailed Nova Scotian data and 
understanding to Canadian Herpetology.

Next year's meeting seems to be shaping up to be at Lakehead University 
in Thunder Bay...

fred schueler
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