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--_000_61666B3F3D5347779FA360848BD31C28dalca_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The regular monthly meeting of the Blomidon Naturalists Society will take p= lace at 7:30 PM on Monday, December 8 in Room BAC241 of the Beveridge Arts = Centre, Acadia University, Wolfville. Note that this is the SECOND Monday of the month! The meeting is being held= early due to the holiday season. All are welcome The main speaker will be: Big Meadow Blues and the Road to Recover one of Canada's Rarest: The Endang= ered Eastern Mountain Avens by Nicholas Hill The Eastern Mountain Avens is a globally rare (G2) Arctic-Alpine plant that= only grows in alpine New Hampshire and in fens and swamps at sea level on = the Digby Peninsula. There its stronghold is the fens around Big Meadow Bog= , however, we are fast losing this habitat, the delayed reaction to a faile= d agriculture that made a series of deep ditches running the length of the = bog in 1958. Nick will speak on current collaborative work to recover the E= astern Mountain Avens which promises to hold many benefits for the species,= the peatland ecosystem and the village community. Nick Hill is a plant ecologist at the Fern Hill Institute for Plant Conserv= ation - an ecological consultancy that specializes in wetland and plant con= servation issues. Its mission is to better understand and protect the diver= sity and integrity of native Nova Scotian ecosystems with particular attent= ion to wetland functions. http://fernhillns.ca/fernhillnsWP/ For more information about the society, visit: http://blomidonnaturalists.c= a/ Patrick Kelly RR#2 159 Town Road Falmouth NS B0P 1L0 Canada (902) 472-2322 --_000_61666B3F3D5347779FA360848BD31C28dalca_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <B01C2944E78BB94EAE5DEA6442545E08@namprd03.prod.outlook.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dus-ascii"= > </head> <body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-lin= e-break: after-white-space; "> The regular monthly meeting of the Blomidon Naturalists Society will take p= lace at 7:30 PM on Monday, December 8 in Room BAC241 of the Beveridge Arts = Centre, Acadia University, Wolfville. <div><br> </div> <div><b>Note that this is the SECOND Monday of the month! The meeting is be= ing held early due to the holiday season.</b></div> <div><br> </div> <div>All are welcome</div> <div><br> </div> <div>The main speaker will be:</div> <div><br> </div> <div><i>Big Meadow Blues and the Road to Recover one of Canada's Rarest: Th= e Endangered Eastern Mountain Avens</i> by Nicholas Hill<br> <br> The Eastern Mountain Avens is a globally rare (G2) Arctic-Alpine plant that= only grows in alpine New Hampshire and in fens and swamps at sea level on = the Digby Peninsula. There its stronghold is the fens around Big Meado= w Bog, however, we are fast losing this habitat, the delayed reaction to a failed agriculture that made a series&n= bsp;of deep ditches running the length of the bog in 1958. Nick will speak = on current collaborative work to recover the Eastern Mountain Avens which p= romises to hold many benefits for the species, the peatland ecosystem and the village community. <br> <br> <i>Nick Hill is a plant ecologist at the Fern Hill Institute for Plant Cons= ervation - an ecological consultancy that specializes in wetland and plant = conservation issues. Its mission is to better understand and protect t= he diversity and integrity of native Nova Scotian ecosystems with particular attention to wetland functions.&nb= sp;<a href=3D"http://fernhillns.ca/fernhillnsWP/">http://fernhillns.ca/fern= hillnsWP/</a></i></div> <div><br> </div> <div>For more information about the society, visit: <a href=3D"http://= blomidonnaturalists.ca/">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/</a></div> <div><br> <div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: no= rmal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; li= ne-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; whit= e-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-sp= acing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-= in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width:= 0px; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate= ; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style:= normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal;= line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; w= hite-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal= -spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decoratio= ns-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-wid= th: 0px; "> <div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line= -break: after-white-space; "> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color:= rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal;= font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-he= ight: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-spa= ce: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing= : 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-ef= fect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;= "> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; "> <font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/= normal Courier; "><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> Patrick Kelly</font></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; "> <font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/= normal Courier; ">RR#2 159 Town Road</font></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; "> <font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/= normal Courier; ">Falmouth NS B0P 1L0</font></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; "> <font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/= normal Courier; ">Canada</font></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Courier; min-height: 14= px; "> <br> </div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margi= n-left: 0px; "> <font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/= normal Courier; ">(902) 472-2322</font></div> <div><font face=3D"Courier" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Courier; "><br> </font></div> </span></div> </span></span></div> </div> <div></div> <br> </body> </html> --_000_61666B3F3D5347779FA360848BD31C28dalca_--
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