Category Archives: Featured Talks

NSWFS Live & Zoom Meeting: Mon Nov 25, 7:30 – Research on using Marsh Elder (Iva Fructans) to help protect our coastlines

The next Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society meeting is Monday Nov. 25, 7:30pm in the downstairs auditorium of the Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer St, Halifax. It will also be broadcast via Zoom. Allison MacNeil is a Masters student … 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)

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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NSWFS Zoom Meeting: Mon Sep 23, 2024 Restoring Land Through Nature-Based Strategies

The Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society invites you to our next members’ meeting, online on Monday Sept 23, 2024 at 7:30 pm.This is a zoom only meeting. If you are an current NSWFS member, or guest, you will receive a … Continue reading

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Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society Annual General Meeting – Apr. 22 at the Museum

Beaked Hazel Corylus cornuta and Eastern Leatherwood Dirca palustris – Photos Bob Kennedy Our 2024 AGM will take place at the Museum of Natural History at 1747 Summer Street on Apr 22 at 7:30pm. It will also be simultaneously streamed … Continue reading

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Member’s Zoom Meeting March 25 7:00pm – Rebecca Parker Gets Us Up to Date with The Young Naturalists Club

Rebecca (Becky) Parker is Executive Director at Nature Nova Scotia and helps run the Nova Scotia Young Naturalist’s Club. She will talk to us about their activities including the multi day expedition to SW NS in 2021 with the YNC’s … Continue reading

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Member’s Meeting Feb 26, 7:30pm – Mike Lancaster shows us the new Island Lake Wilderness Area

The next members meeting will be on Monday Feb. 26 at 7:30 pm, both in person at the Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer St. and by Zoom. If you are a member, you will be recieving a link to … Continue reading

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Nova Scotia Wild Flora Society Members’ Photo Night Monday Jan 22, 2024

Our next member’s meeting will be on January 22 in the new year. As has been our tradition for many years, you are invited to share up to 20 of your favourite wild flora photos. Do you have a photo … Continue reading

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Member’s Meeting Nov 27, 7:30pm – Nina Newington and the Save Our Old Forests campaign

The next member’s meeting will be at the Museum of Natural History, downstairs auditorium and via Zoom on Monday Nov 27, 7:30pm. Nina Newington and other citizen scientists are playing a key role in the effort to protect the proposed … Continue reading

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

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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Sep 25 Member’s Meeting – The Laugavegur Trail of Iceland: A botanical journey

At 7:30pm on Monday Sep 25, we will have our first member’s meeting of the fall season at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History’s downstairs auditorium. Entry is via the downstairs south door by the parking lot. There will … Continue reading

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