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Index of Subjects Hi Fred, This is not really a problem since the Butterfly Atlas is a 5-year project not just 2. Presumably, and hopefully, things will even out over the 5-year run. Bob McDonald Halifax ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frederick W. Schueler" <bckcdb@istar.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 12:37 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Not many leps either > On 8/18/2011 10:37 AM, Angus MacLean wrote: >> Yes, leps have been extremely scarce this year. I can count on my >> fingers the number of species I have found this summer which is >> ridiculous. Considering this is the second year of the Butterfly >> atlassing, that's very depressing. > > * and inappropriate weather for the Butterflies will cause the Atlas to be > unrepresentative of the 2010's, and be a poor comparison when it's > repeated in the future. It's a real problem when a whole year is > inappropriateness of a year for sampling particular kinds of organisms. In > working with freshwater mussels, we depend on low water to get us within > reach of our subjects, for example, and a drought year is much more > productive than one in which Corn grows well. > > I wonder if the butterfly Atlas could agitate with its funders for a third > year to complete the work that could have been done in two sunny bright > years. > > fred schueler > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm > now in the field on the Thirty Years Later Expedition - > http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/thirty/thirtyintro.htm > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/ > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------ >
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