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May 11, 2007- I drove TO HUBBARDS for an important government announcement, but, to kill some time, I did a walk in LEWIS LAKE PROVINCIAL PARK: lots of BLACK FLIES (some biting), OVENBIRD and other warblers singing (not many), lots of MAYFLOWERS, a COMMON LOON on the lake, WILD STRAWBERRY flower-buds (just a few), and two photos of arboreal LICHENS (Usnea spp., one with lots of fruiting cups, and brown Bryoria?). The government announcement came from N.S. Environment¹s Mark Parent and Nat. Resources¹ David Morse and declared the Crown lands within the Blandford Game Sanctuary as a formal NATURE RESERVE, a much higher form of protection from such things as forestry, mining, ATVs, etc. This was well-attended by a variety of bureaucrats, environmental groups, naturalists, etc. (and written up in both the Daily News and Herald over the next two days). I was pleased to meet lichenologist Frances Anderson for the first time. She and Troy McMullin are working on a book on Nova Scotia lichens. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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