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NSWFS Field trip Sunday Nov 10, 2024, Rain Date Sat Nov.9. West Dover

Posted on November 5, 2024 by admin

Meet Parking Lot opposite the Ball field at West Dover 2:00 PM . Will follow a trail to a scattered rocky barrens with Jack Pine and other conifers. Glacial erratics rocky outcrops with Bearberry trailing over the rocks. Please register … Continue reading →

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Monday Oct 28, 2024 at 7:30 pm: The Natural and Not-so-Natural History of Sandy Lake (Bedford, NS)

Posted on October 20, 2024 by admin

Each one of the 1000 or so lakes in HRM is physically unique but they share common threats to their ongoing integrity associated with climate change and urbanization. In this presentation, NSWFS member David Patriquin will take us on a … Continue reading →

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Maps of thinned and as yet un-thinned forest at Point Pleasant Park 20Jul2024

Posted on July 20, 2024 by admin

Our Members’ annual Outdoors Meeting was held at PPP (Point Pleasant Park) on May 27, 2024.   We planned that, after a brief meeting, we would  look at sites where the forest had been thinned (2019 or 2020), and at sites … Continue reading →

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Otter Ponds iNaturlaist BioBlitz Sat July 6, 2024

Posted on June 28, 2024 by admin
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Season of the Spring Ephemerals/Early Summer Forbs 12May2024

Posted on May 12, 2024 by admin

‘Received this a.m. a notice about a post on Spring Ephemerals by Kate MacQuarrie on her PEI Untamed Blog. Kate’s blog has lots of natural history stuff relevant to NS. Kate’s piece on spring ephemerals reminded me of an “article” … Continue reading →

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City Nature Challenge begins Apr 26 (today) & runs to Mon Apr 29, 2024

Posted on April 26, 2024 by admin

Halifax is participating in the iNaturalist-based City Nature Challenge again, this year over the days Friday Apr 26 to Monday Apr 29 It’s pretty simple to contribute to Halifax’s effort to document our natural world and illustrate citizen’s love of … Continue reading →

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Sat Oct 14, 2023 at 1 pm: Sandy Lake (Bedford) Old Forest walk

Posted on October 10, 2023 by admin

David Patriquin will lead this walk on Sat Oct 14, 2023. If Saturday look very rainy, it will be on Sunday, Oct 15. Check this post if uncertain; ‘will update/confirm Fri at noon. We will meet 1 p,m* in the … Continue reading →

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Mon Oct 23 Member’s Meeting via Zoom: Fires, Conservation and Fire Management in the Halifax Backlands

Posted on October 7, 2023 by admin

Online presentation by David Patriquin to the NS Wild Flora Society, 7:30 p.m. Monday Oct 23, 2023. All welcome. The “Backlands”, located only a few kilometers from from peninsular Halifax, NS, are a Thompsonesque urban wilderness of approximately 1350 hectares … Continue reading →

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Event of interest: Chebucto Moose Field Meeting on Sunday Oct 22, 2023

Posted on September 20, 2023 by admin

Details & Registration Here More about the Chebcto Moose Here

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Can a soil sample from 416,000 years ago give us some insight into where we are headed today?

Posted on August 20, 2023 by admin

NS Wild Flora Society member Norris Whiston thinks so. One of Norris’s passions is compiling user-friendly guides to the local flora. He also has a fascination with the geological/geochemical/evolutionary history of the Earth, and likes to put it all together … Continue reading →

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