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On 9/17/2010 11:47 AM, Frederick W. Schueler wrote:
>> I'll also mention the CARCNET (Canadian Amphibian and Reptile
>> Conservation Network) meetings in Wolfville, 17-20 September.
>> see http://www.carcnet.ca/english/annual_meeting/current_meeting.p^h^p
>> (I understand from a recent thread that certain combinations of letters
>> can't appear in a natureNS post, so take the carets out of p^h^p) -
>> this is the best way to keep up with research and conservation of
>> Canadian herpetofauna.
* The CARCNET meetings have now passed, and as usual they were intense
and exciting, with lots of students presenting on subjects ranging from
hepatozoon diseases of frogs to waif Wood Frogs being swept across James
Bay to relative toxicity or road salt and its additives to interviews
with those living with Skinks to the phylogeographic consequences of
dirt-biking over Horned Lizard habitat. Also there were a lot of papers
about Turtles, especially Nova Scotian Wood and Blanding's Turtles.
Some highlights were Morgan Boenke on "Home range habitat selection, and
site fidelity of Fowler's Toads" at Long Point in Lake Erie, the
inimitable Sara Ashpole ("Are there any employees of the BC Ministry of
Transportation in the audience?") on "Amphibian occurrence [=slaughter]
on South Okanagan roadways," Steve Hecnar on "Long term trends in the
abundance of... Green Frogs," and Wendy Holman on "Nesting ecology and
natural history of a central Nova Scotia Wood Turtle population."
The banquet speaker was David Green, who decribed methods of curing
students of obsessive North American standards of cleanliness while
teaching them herpetology in Kenya, by means of such methods as mud,
mangroves and Elephants, and showed interesting pictures of unresolved
diversity among African frogs, and of Spitting Cobras chanceily confined
within plastic sandwich boxes.
The Silver Salamander award for regional conservation effort went to the
Kejimkujik National Park volunteer programme and the Mersey Tobeatic
Research Institute, while the Blue Racer award for lifetime contribution
to Canadian Herpetology went to John Gilhen for his continuing lifetime
of contributing thoughtful and detailed Nova Scotian data and
understanding to Canadian Herpetology.
Next year's meeting seems to be shaping up to be at Lakehead University
in Thunder Bay...
fred schueler
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