Programme: Upcoming Meetings and Events
Through the fall, winter and spring, we meet at 7:30 pm on the 4th Monday of the month in the auditorium of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, Hali
fax. Meetings are open to the public. Field trips are held throughout the year, but most frequently during the summer. They are usually held on a Saturday or Sunday. The field trips are also open to the public, except when numbers must be restricted.
Saturday February 18: Winter Botany
Charlie Cron will lead on this now traditional winter field trip.
Time: 1:30 p.m.
(If it's really bad it will be cancelled.) Check website
Place: Meet at Dingle Parking Lot, 1:30 p.m.
Monday February 27th, 2012: Our Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora.
Megan Crowley, a Species at Risk Stewardship Biologist at Kejimkujik National Park
and National Historic Site will talk to us about this special flora which "holds a special place in her heart" and that is the subject of our annual foray to south west Nova Scotia in late summer. Megan is co-author, with Lindsey Beal, of the recently published Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora in Nova Scotia: Identification and Information. She received a Master's in Resource and Environmental Management from Dalhousie and a BScH in Wildlife Biology from Guelph.
Time
7:30 p.m.
Place NSMNH, go in via the side entrance by the parking lot
The Atlantic Coastal Plain Flora (ACPF) is a group of 90 species of taxonomically unrelated wetland plants that inhabit our lake and river shores, bogs, fens, and estuaries. The Atlantic Coastal Plain was formed at the end of the last glacial period (10,000 to 14,000 years ago) when the sea level was as much as 100 m lower than present day. There was a land bridge between Nova Scotia and Massachusetts and plants likely migrated northwards to southwestern Nova Scotia. Some of the world's largest and least disturbed ACPF populations are located here in N.S. Source: http://www.speciesatrisk.ca/coastalplainflora/?q=node/2
More events to come in 2012
Past Events