April 26 to April 29, 2019: City Nature Challenge – Halifax

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Monday March 25, 2019 – Roots of the Nova Scotia Nature Trust: 25 years of Preserving Places for Special Plants

Posted on March 8, 2019 by Bob Kennedy

 

The Nova Scotia Nature Trust is celebrating 25 years of land conservation this year! Join Jessica Bradford, Conservation Project Coordinator, as she takes you through a short history of the Nature Trust rooted in preserving places for special and rare plants like the Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora in Southwest Nova. She will also highlight some other Nature Trust conservation lands noted for their unique wild flora.

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NSWFS Nature Conservacy of Canada Talk

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Bob Kennedy

On Monday February 25 2019, guest  speaker and member Doug van Hemessen will inform us about some of the newest Nature Conservancy of Canada properties in Nova Scotia including the new acquisition in the Tatamagouche area.  We plan to visit that area in a weekend trip this summer.  Following Doug’s presentation (about 45  minutes) and questions, the remainder of the meeting will be devoted to a discussion of plans for the Tatamagouche trip. Charlie Cron will give a short presentation on some of the relatively rare intervale vegetation we may see in the area.

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Canada Lily (Lilium canadense) – Photo Charles Cron

Come join us at 7:30 pm, Monday Feb. 25, 2019 in the auditorium of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax. 

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Members’ Photo Night Monday Jan. 28, 2019

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Bob Kennedy
On Monday Jan. 29, all NSWFS members have an opportunity to share their favourite recent photos on the high quality projector in the Museum of Natural History.  Select up to 10 of your favourite flora slides of the year or from any trip you found interesting and put them on a memory stick to be loaded into a computer before the meeting begins. Do you have a photo of a Mystery Plant to include?  
Please contact us at nswildflora@yahoo.ca if you are interested and have not done so already. 
 
Photos are requested to be high resolution JPEG files in a single folder on your USB memory stick. They will be shown full screen from Bob’s Mac laptop. 
The file names should start with a number indicating the sequence in which you wish them to be shown. (ie- 01 WS Lunenberg.jpg, 02 Solidago canadensis buds.jpg, 03 Virginia Rose.jpg). Resolution should be 1920×1080 pixels or higher for best quality. We can also handle Power Point or PDF files, but we request them on a black background so as not to distract from the images. Fat32 or Mac OS formating is preferred for the USB sticks, but NTFS can be accomodated (and if you don’t know what this means, don’t worry about it).
You may also bring your own computer, but we request that you have tried it out beforehand so that we don’t waste time trying to get it to talk to the projector. The same applies for formats other than the ones recommended (We can work with .tif and .tga, but some others may not work). For this reason, JPEG files on a USB stick are preferred.
If you want to show more than 10 pictures, please contact us ahead of time with an estimate of the time you require so we can gage how it would fit in. We may be forced to enforce limits if there is more to present than time available.
Come join us at 7:30 pm, Monday Jan. 28, 2019 in the auditorium of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax. 
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Mon Nov 26, 2018: Marion and Keith on Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks

Posted on November 3, 2018 by admin

Photo by Keith Vaughan

At our next regular meeting, NSWFS members Keith Vaughan and Marion Sensen will talk about their visit to the Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks in Wyoming, USA, in October 2015. The talk will be illustrated with photographs taken at that time.
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Bob’s Talk being Repeated Jan 3

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Bob Kennedy

3 Unique Habitats: Albert Mines, Cape Breton, Shingle Lake

For those that missed it (or found he ran through the pictures too fast), Bob Kennedy will be repeating his presentation of his “3 Trips to Unique Habitats” at the Halifax Field Naturalists meeting at 7:30pm on Jan. 3, 2019 at the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History.

 

 

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Hunting Season Info

Posted on October 13, 2018 by admin

Deer hunting season begins  Friday October 26 (season always begins on the last Friday of October) and goes to the first Saturday of December, inclusive, excluding Sundays. Wear hunter orange when you are out and about and put an orange vest on your dog. Deer hunting is permitted on protected land. Both hikers and hunters should use extra caution during this season. (Those dates are for hunting with rifles; muzzleloader and crossbow season starts earlier.)

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– Season and bag Limits 2018
It includes a Reminder:  “Hunting on Sunday is only allowed on October 28, 2018 and November 4, 2018.”
– 2018 NOVA SCOTIA HUNTING & FUR HARVESTING SUMMARY OF REGULATIONS
– Deer Hunting Regulations made under Section 113 of the Wildlife Act
– Department of Lands and Forestry: Hunting

I can’t find any regulations on where deer hunting is not allowed in relation to towns, cities etc. so don’t assume that you are safe from stray shots from deer hunter rifles because you are close to settled areas. -dp

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Botanical Art Show Sat Oct 20

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Some local walking events

Posted on September 28, 2018 by admin

Forwarded from W.M. on Sep 28, 2018:

Walks in Mainland North

Tuesdays in October (October 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th), come for a walk on a trail in the community. This is in partnership with the Keshen Goodman Library and Halifax North West Trails Association. Come and bring a friend or meet a new one, meet at the library for 1:00 pm. No registration required. All ages welcome. Enjoy the green spaces in Mainland North. Approx. 1 hour walks.

Hike to Fox Lake within the BMBCL Wilderness Area – Halifax North West Trails

Join hike leaders Spencer and Alyssa Doué for a hike out to Fox Lake, a beautiful lake nestled within the Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area. Make sure to bring your camera, because the look off view is spectacular!

Date and Time:
Saturday, September 29 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Trail Information:
This 5 km hike is considered moderate with some rugged spots.
Meeting place:
Meet at the end of Belle Street and Collins Road, off Larry Uteck Drive. Parking in the cul-de-sac.
Registration:
Pre registration is required by contacting Alyssa Doué at hnwta.communications@gmail.com or by calling 902-403-6485

Hike to Blue Mountain Hill within the BMBCL Wilderness Area with Halifax North West Trails Association

Join hike leader Richard Vinson for a hike up Blue Mountain Hill within the Blue Mountain Birch Cove Lakes Wilderness Area. Make sure to bring your camera, because the look off view is spectacular!

Date and Time:
Saturday, October 13 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm
Trail Information:
This 5 km hike is considered moderate with some rugged spots.
Meeting place:
Meet ten minutes before the start of the hike at Anahid Drive off Kingswood Drive, off Hammonds Plains Road. Parking in the cul-de-sac.
Registration:
​Pre registration is required by contacting Alyssa Doué at hnwta.communications@gmail.com or by calling 902-403-6485

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Visit to Blue Curls site

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Bob Kennedy

 

On Aug. 25 (and again with David Patriquin on Sep 2), Charles Cron and Bob Kennedy canoed and hiked out to the only known site of Blue Curls (Trichostema dichotomum) in the Maritimes. We wish to thank Sean Blaney for making this possible.

Along the way around Shingle Lake we also found a number of interesting plants, such as Twining Screwstem (Bartonia paniculata), Michaux’s Birch (Betula michauxii), Pink Corydalis (Capnoides sempervirens), Hairy Rosette Panic Grass (Panicum acuminatum), Narrowleaf Pinweed (Lechea intermedia), Greenland Stichwort (Minuartia groenlandica), a very narrow leaved form of Broadleaved Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia) and the minute purple flowered North-eastern Bladderwort (Utricularia resupinata).

 

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