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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0092_01CD3D0F.CD8E9610 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Last weekend I was impressed by the large white patches of flowering = Wild Calla (a.k.a. Water-arum, or Calla palustris) along the abandoned = (and never fully finished) marine railway in Cumberland County. They = were the largest patches of this conspicuous marsh plant I've seen = anywhere.=20 Interestingly, the plant occupies largely man-made wetland habitat = here; namely flooded ditches along the 1891 engineering marvel and wet = areas where streams cross the 27 km structure. A considerable acreage of = abutting Crown land has been proposed for protection under the "15 = Percent by 2015" initiative=20 Dusan Soudek ------=_NextPart_000_0092_01CD3D0F.CD8E9610 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19154"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> Last weekend I was impressed by the = large white=20 patches of flowering Wild Calla (a.k.a. Water-arum, or <EM>Calla = palustris</EM>)=20 along the abandoned (and never fully finished) marine railway in = Cumberland=20 County. They were the largest patches of this conspicuous marsh plant = I've seen=20 anywhere. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> Interestingly, the plant occupies = largely=20 man-made wetland habitat here; namely flooded ditches along the=20 1891 engineering marvel and wet areas where streams cross the 27 km = structure. A considerable acreage of abutting Crown land has = been=20 proposed for protection under the "15 Percent by 2015"=20 initiative </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D4> </FONT><FONT size=3D4>Dusan=20 Soudek</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0092_01CD3D0F.CD8E9610--
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