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Subject: BNS meeting Monday and Acadia Biology Seminars Tues. and Thurs. next week See below for first Blomidon Naturalists Society meeting of this autumn, on Monday evening, 7:30, at the Irving Centre, Acadia Univ., Wolfville. ALSO this is a heads-up message concerning ACADIA BIOLOGY SEMINARS next week on BOTH TUESDAY and THURSDAY. Details yet to come, but today's by Dave Shutler was really, really good and educational and funny, partly a travelog that might be adapted at some future date for the Blomidon Naturalists? ----------------- Blomidon Naturalists Society Unless otherwise noted, all MEETINGS are held at 7:30 p.m., usually on the third Monday of each month (note exception for December), in the auditorium of The K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre on University Avenue, Wolfville. Parking is available at Wheelock Dining Hall, along Crowell Drive immediately east of the Centre, at the Acadia Arena, the Student Union Building, or on Westwood Avenue. Everyone is welcome. Regular Meeting, Monday, September 18, 2006 ‹ STANDING TALL FOR FORESTS by JOANNE COOK. Tired of clear-cuts? Worried about more herbicide spraying near your land? Wondering how our forest industry has gotten into this state? Come and hear Joanne Cook of the Ecology Action Centre's Standing Tall Campaign for Environmentally Responsible Forestry. This presentation gives you the facts about forestry in Nova Scotia and suggests how to achieve some real changes that will preserve and protect our wild lands. Since the 60s, Nova Scotia's native Acadian Forest, once a healthy, diverse mix of hardwoods and softwoods, has been systematically cut and replaced by spruce and balsam tree farms. Driven by pulp and paper mill demand, our forests are being clear-cut at the rate of over 500 square kilometres a year. We have put all our forestry eggs in the softwood basket and now the paper sector is teetering on the brink of disaster all across Canada. We need to change our approach to forests and forestry. Over the next 18 months, the Government of Nova Scotia is going to develop a new 10-year forestry strategy. The Ecology Action Centre comes with fresh new ideas about how we can all speak for our trees.
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