Jan. 7: The Society's Annual Meeting which starts at 7:30 P.M. will be followed by an illustrated talk By Dan McAskill on backyard and forest wildlife enhancement. The meeting will be at the Farm Centre.

Feb. 4: Geoff Hogan will be the Society's guest speaker. He will speak on "Gardening with Native Plants“. The meeting starts at 7:30 P.M. at the Farm Centre.

Mar. 3: The Society's guest speaker will be Dr. Rick Cawthorne. His topic will be Parasites. The meeting will commence at 7:30 P.M.

Apr. 7: Dr. Pierre-Yves Daoust will be the feature speaker on the topic "Stranding of Deep Sea Species on Island Beaches". The meeting will commence at 7:30 P.M. at the Farm Centre.

May 5: The Society's annual slide show will be held at our regular monthly meeting. It starts at the Farm Centre at 7:30 P.M.

NEWS FROM ABOUT

On June 5th, the Conservation Council of New Brunswick was added to the United Nation's Global 500 Roll of Honour for outstanding environmental achievements. (EcoAlert, June/July 1991, 22:3)

From August 20th to 22, Mount Allison University in Sackville will host the "Aquatic Birds '91 Symposium". This symposium will consist of invited papers and posters addressing the trophic web of lakes. For further information contact the Symposium at Box 1006, Sackville, N.B. (Adapted from Gavia,Apr. 91)

Jack Ward Thomas, the editor of the classic forestry wildlife text Wildlife Habitats in Managed Forest- The Blue Mountains of Oregon and Washington, received the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award for 1991 from the Wildlife Society. His work has been instrumental in changing the way forest wildlife are managed in United States and Canada. His doctoral studies of wildlife in urban and suburban settings served as the theme for the National Wildlife Federation's "Backyard Wildlife Program". (Adapted from "The Wildlifer" # 245)

The Spring 1991 issue of Conservation carried an excellent article on the futility of bounties for coyotes. Barry Sabean, the author, noted that the high reproductive rate of the coyote and the difficulty of controlling it would mean that it would take over 50 years to eliminate the coyote even if 75% were eliminated each year. It is very unlikely that such a high level of removal could be achieved.

The Quebec Labrador Foundation's nine-part radio series about the peeple and environment of the Quebec North Shore is available on cassette. Order individual stories for $5 each or $10 for the complete set. (Nexus 13:2, Spring 1991

The Government of Figi has joined Mexico in banning the export of Hawksbill turtle shells. The Solomon Islands is the only remaining country allowing the export of Hawksbill shells. (from Greenpeace via "Between the Issues"Vol. IX, No. 2, May 1991).

The May 1991 issue of the Canadian Nature Federation's Almanac (5:3) reported that northern land use planning has been lost to the budgetary axe. Jacques Prescott, president of the CNF, indicated that “the land use planning program is a model of community involvement in sustainable development" and "withthe federal government's commitment to sustainable development and the Green Plan, a program like this should not be so easily dismissed."