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--_000_C75829B5617B4FD2B5E6B6FBDEDB693Adalca_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The regular monthly meeting of the Blomidon Naturalists Society will take p= lace on Monday, April 17 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm in Room BAC241 of the Beveridg= e Arts Centre, Acadia University, Wolfville. The meeting is open to the public. The main presentation will be: What=92s Happening to Nova Scotia Forests? by Bob Bancroft In the 25 years leading up to 2014, 42 percent of the operable forests in N= ova Scotia have been clear-cut. Clear-cuts are the quickest way for compani= es to make short-term profits. Clear-cutting results in long-term degradati= on of forest soils and waterways, and in diminishing prospects for regenera= ting forests. Wildlife populations and nature are rapidly deteriorating as = these forests are flattened. For decades the forest industry, with governme= nt assistance and the public purse, has been converting complex Acadian for= ests to boreal-style, simplified forests for fibre production. No valid sc= ientific rationale for doing this exists. Corporate greed is involved. Succ= essive provincial governments of all political stripes have failed to manag= e public lands in the public interest. Harvests are now recurring in 20=965= 5 year cycles, whereas many Acadian Forest trees can live for centuries. There will be ample discussion time. As the regional biologist in eastern Nova Scotia, Bob Bancroft realized tha= t forest =93managers=94 and single-minded harvesters were rapidly altering = forest habitats to the detriment of nature and many wildlife species. He se= rved as an extension (education) biologist, editor, and fisheries biologist= before leaving the provincial civil service in 1999. He led a scientific p= anel in 2009/2010 that was asked by government to make recommendations for = a new forest strategy. Currently the president of Nature Nova Scotia, Bob o= perates a wildlife/forestry consulting business, writes for magazines like = Saltscapes, and continues with his CBC and news radio wildlife commentaries= . Bob lives with his wife, landscape artist Alice Reed, on 56 acres of form= er farmland beside Pomquet Harbour, where he has been restoring a healthy f= orest for 42 years. For more infomation about the Society, visit: http://blomidonnaturalists.ca Patrick Kelly 159 Town Road Falmouth NS B0P 1L0 Canada (902) 472-2322 --_000_C75829B5617B4FD2B5E6B6FBDEDB693Adalca_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: <7201C4A166703041A29005CE1795DFFD@namprd03.prod.outlook.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DWindows-1= 252"> </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 on Monday, April 17 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm in Room BAC241 = of the Beveridge Arts Centre, Acadia University, Wolfville. <div><br> </div> <div>The meeting is open to the public.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>The main presentation will be:</div> <div><br> </div> <div><b>What=92s Happening to Nova Scotia Forests?</b> by Bob Bancroft= </div> <div><br> In the 25 years leading up to 2014, 42 percent of the operable forests in N= ova Scotia have been clear-cut. Clear-cuts are the quickest way for co= mpanies to make short-term profits. Clear-cutting results in long-term degr= adation of forest soils and waterways, and in diminishing prospects for regenerating forests. Wildlife popul= ations and nature are rapidly deteriorating as these forests are flattened.= For decades the forest industry, with government assistance and the p= ublic purse, has been converting complex Acadian forests to boreal-style, simplified forests for fibre production. No = valid scientific rationale for doing this exists. Corporate greed is = involved. Successive provincial governments of all political stripes h= ave failed to manage public lands in the public interest. Harvests are now recurring in 20=9655 year cycles, whereas many = Acadian Forest trees can live for centuries.</div> <div><br> There will be ample discussion time.<br> <br> <i>As the regional biologist in eastern Nova Scotia, Bob Bancroft realized = that forest =93managers=94 and single-minded harvesters were rapidly alteri= ng forest habitats to the detriment of nature and many wildlife specie= s. He served as an extension (education) biologist, editor, and fisheries biologist before leaving the provinc= ial civil service in 1999. He led a scientific panel in 2009/2010 that was = asked by government to make recommendations for a new forest strategy.= Currently the president of Nature Nova Scotia, Bob operates a wildlife/forestry consulting business, writes for magazines= like Saltscapes, and continues with his CBC and news radio wildlife c= ommentaries. Bob lives with his wife, landscape artist Alice Reed, on 56 ac= res of former farmland beside Pomquet Harbour, where he has been restoring a healthy forest for 42 years.</i></d= iv> <div><i><br> </i></div> <div>For more infomation about the Society, visit: <a href=3D"http://b= lomidonnaturalists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca</a></div> <div><i><br> </i> <div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; c= olor: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-varian= t: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal= ; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: n= one; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-hori= zontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-dec= orations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stro= ke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><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: no= rmal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent:= 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0= px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing= : 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 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"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; ">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> </span></div> </span></div> </span></span></div> </div> <div></div> <br> </body> </html> --_000_C75829B5617B4FD2B5E6B6FBDEDB693Adalca_--
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