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margin-right: 0px; ma --Apple-Mail-16-19340295 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: March 15, 2014 2:21:24 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Raymond Plourde =20 > <rplourde@accesswave.ca>, Bob Bancroft <wild1@eastlink.ca>, Donna =20 > Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] re Wild Canada, The Nature of Things last =20 > Thurs. eve. > > THANKS, RAY! > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Raymond Plourde <rplourde@accesswave.ca> >> Date: March 15, 2014 2:03:02 PM ADT >> To: "'James W. Wolford'" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>, 'Nature BNS' =20 >> <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> >> Cc: 'Bob Bancroft' <wild1@eastlink.ca>, 'Donna Crossland' =20 >> <dcrossland@eastlink.ca>, 'Matt Miller' <forests@ecologyaction.ca> >> Subject: RE: re Wild Canada, The Nature of Things last Thurs. eve. >> >> Thanks for the reminder about this amazing series Jim. It=92s also =20= >> now on the InterWeb: http://www.cbc.ca/wildcanada/episode1/ >> >> Cheers >> >> Ray >> >> From: James W. Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca] >> Sent: March-15-14 2:24 AM >> To: Nature BNS >> Cc: Bob Bancroft; Donna Crossland; Matt Miller; Raymond Plourde >> Subject: re Wild Canada, The Nature of Things last Thurs. eve. >> >> Thursday evening, I asked my dutiful wife Pat at home to tape The =20 >> Nature of Things at 8 pm on CBC-TV, because I knew it was the =20 >> beginning of a great-sounding 4-part series called "WILD CANADA -- =20= >> THE ETERNAL FRONTIER". We are very low-tech' people who still use =20= >> VCRs and videotapes, and it worked perfectly well -- the show was =20 >> really SUPER! >> >> My memory of the show is very spotty, but the show's starting =20 >> point in time is the last glaciation. Most of this first episode =20 >> was about the history of Canada's forests, starting with the east =20 >> and moving westward through prairies and mountains and coast, then =20= >> to the boreal forest, and finally to the low arctic tundra and =20 >> high arctic tundra. The photography by Sue & Jeff Turner was =20 >> superb on our low-definition TVs, but it was the historical tales =20 >> narrated by David Suzuki (yes, still doing it) that really caught =20 >> my imagination. >> >> The eastern black oak forests were 'managed' by Aboriginals with =20 >> the use of purposeful fires, to create an open forest & savannah =20 >> complex. And he claimed that many more deer were able to live =20 >> there then than is possible now without the fires. >> >> Regarding the prairies, the spectacle of the Manitoba red-sided =20 >> garter snakes was shown in spring, with huge numbers of males that =20= >> emerge first and patiently? wait for the gradual emergence of the =20 >> females to attempt to mate with them. >> >> On the Pacific coast the white Spirit or Kermode bear (a type of =20 >> black bear) was shown learning to catch salmon. Also they showed =20 >> concentrated humpback whales feeding on the prodigiously produced =20 >> marine creatures along the northwest coast. >> >> Later they showed a mother polar bear with young cubs just emerged =20= >> from their den underneath very small trees of the edge of the =20 >> tundra (northern edge of boreal forest). >> >> The show mentioned that just after the last glaciers, mammoths =20 >> kept the ground and vegetation as a vast grassland. Then came =20 >> good old humans to change things, as they always do, here by =20 >> destroying the mammoths and other Pleistocene mammals and helping =20 >> to change the grassland into boggy tundra with different plants, =20 >> which only caribou can deal with in large numbers. >> >> And so on... I have left a lot out, and I must review the tape I =20 >> still have before next Thursday. FOR THOSE WHO MISSED IT, my =20 >> weekend TV listings show The Nature of Things (unsure what titles) =20= >> listed for CBC's NEWSWORLD channel (50 in Valley, 29 in Halifax) =20 >> on Saturday at 8 pm and again on Sunday at 2 am. >> >> And here are two useful links to a review and the broadcast itself =20= >> that I got from Googling the show's title: >> >> Canada is gorgeous and wild, and this TV series has the footage to =20= >> prove it >> The Globe and Mail >> Wild Canada on The Nature of Things is stunning to watch, =20 >> gloriously ... An overriding theme is how the presence of humans =20 >> here has changed ... >> >> 'Wild Canada': CBC Nature TV Show Showcases Canada's Beauty >> Huffington Post Canada . >> -------------------------------------- >> > > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/=20 > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-16-19340295 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 15, 2014 2:21:24 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = styl