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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. Environmentıs Mark Parent and Nat. Resourcesı 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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