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Dirk Van Loon of the Harrison Lewis Centre has asked me to post this notice: Plant Identification Course at The Harrison Lewis Coastal Discovery Centre August 11-15 Know your plants! Wild flowers, ferns, lichens, and more “Botany for the Seriously Curious” For amateur naturalists, teachers, or anyone with a job requiring knowledge about Nova Scotia (and region) flora, the workshop Aug. 11-15 with Pierre Taschereau and Amy Wytkowski should be of special interest. University summer courses with Dr. Taschereau, a Dal prof and former plant curator at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, are always well attended. As far as we know this is the first time he has taken his show on the road, so to speak – outside the academic community. If there were the equivalent of the slow food movement among botanists, Pierre Tashereau would be at the forefront. He has enough information and fascinating stories to tell about just about every plant to make a ten foot walk in the woods a fun-filled, day-long event. Here he and Ms. Witkowski, MSc candidate at UNB and recent herbarium assistant at the New Brunswick Museum of Natural History, will be introducing plants of all kinds growing on and near the Atlantic coast; back beach, bog, forest and field. Along with instruction on how to identify them using A.E. Roland’s celebrated “Flora of Nova Scotia” and other guides, participants will learn how to collect, dry, and mount specimens for their own herbarium collections. This is an exceptional opportunity. Register by phoning the Harrison Lewis Centre (902 683-2984) or on-line at www.HarrisonLewisCentre.org. “Early-bird” tuition discounts available. Email contact: HLC@eastlink.ca. Harrison Lewis Centre Sandy Bay, RR1 Port Joli Queens County, Nova Scotia (Adjacent to Thomas Raddall Provincial Park)
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