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Index of Subjects I just want to confirm what Bob said, the Atlas is a five-year project. This is the second year. The first year produced nearly 2500 photograph and specimen records, far exceeding initial expectations. Based on what I have received so far we should be able to get close to that number this year. Not bad considering how slow it has been. Here's hoping the weather is little more cooperative for the project next year! For more information on the project please visit http://accdc.com/butterflyatlas.html. Cheers, John John Klymko Director, Maritimes Butterfly Atlas http://accdc.com/butterflyatlas.html http://maritimesbutterflyatlas.wordpress.com/ http://groups.google.com/group/maritimes-butterfly-atlas?pli=1 Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre PO Box 6416, Sackville, NB E4L 1G6 (506)364-2660(tel); (506)364-2656(fax) -----Original Message----- From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Bob McDonald Sent: August-18-11 1:51 PM To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Not many leps either 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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