A special thanks to Gary Schneider who compiled the Montague Counts, to Maurice Roy of the PEI National Park who provided the Dalvay Interpretive Centre and stoked the fire for the potluck, and to Robin Phillips, Dan McAskill, and family who hosted counters to a potluck after the Hillsborough Count! Thanks also to the many participants, namely: the Armstrongs; Ron Arvidson; Gwen Beck; Jean

- Blanchard; Bill Bowerbank; Jake & Tracey Brown; Cathy, Pat, and Robyn Chan; Evie Cudmore; Rosemary Curley; Wanda Curley; Suzanne Essensa; Janet Fraser; Chris & Blair Fraser; Loretta Hardwick; Don Harris; Jane Harris; Rick Hawkins; Ben Hoteling; Janet Hughes; Sandra Hume; Evelyn Jenkins; Hudson Jenkins; Ken Jenkins; Marnie Johnston; Michelle Johnston; Lila Jones; Kellers; Dan Kennedy; Carolyn & Roc Lariviere; Margie Loo; Raymond Loo; Gerald MacDonald; Margaret MacDonald; Leslie MacIsaac; Tina MacKenzie; Alan MacPhee; Gisele Martin; Eric Marcum; Evelyn Martin; Dan McAskill; Janice, Arlene & Paul McGuigan; Bonnie McOrmand; Jason Moore; Dwaine Oakley; Roberta Palmer; Brenda Penak; Robin Phillips; Ruth Richman; Maurice Roy; Gary Schneider; Scott Sinclair; Don & Alma Steeves; Anne Stewart; John Stewart; Jim, & Sarah Sue Sutton; Diane Taylor; Linda Thomas; Reg & Jean Thompson; Liz Townsend; Dorota Wadowska; Winston Wood; and Glenda Wright.

NATURALISTS IN ACTION:

There are many Islanders out there who have committed a great deal of their personal time and . energy into wildlife conservation. One such individual is Daryl Guignion. In Daryl's case, the commitment covers both his chosen professional career in teaching in the Biology Department of U.P.E.I. and much of his "free" time. 4 ; Part of the task of improving the state of wildlife conservation is the capability ' :’ of looking at and assessing both the environment and the efforts to conserve it. Daryl I was a lecturer advocating awareness and conservation of various species for the Natural History Society in its early days. He was part of the interdisciplinary team that conducted watershed studies on the Dunk River in the 19705 focusing on waterfowl and creel census data collection. He served on the Natural Areas Advisory Committee until he and other realized in the late 1970s that it was becoming a mechanism used to defer action rather than conserve threatened areas. In response, he and the other founding members established the Island Nature Trust in 1978 to initiate active acquisition and protection of key natural areas and to educate others on the need for their conservation. Daryl was a founding member of the Morell River Management Coop and played an important role in getting the Morell River Conservation Zone established to protect the lower reaches of the Morell 1 River. In the 19805, Daryl joined the national body working on the Centennial Celebration for the National Parks. Here he was able to evaluate projects and recommend the allocation of funds to support conservation initiatives. His early efforts on the Morell River led him to efforts to assist other groups of Islanders to protect trout and salmon habitat. His effort's on the Morell expanded into salmon enhancement with the establishment of the Mooney's Pond Semi-natural Rearing Area and later the interpretive centre program and trails at Mooney's Pond. Concurrent with some of these efforts, Daryl served on the Environmental Advisory Committee which'reported to the Minister of Environment and the Legislative Assembly thus encouraging appropriate government policy. Still later, it led to work as an environmental consultant and workshops to improve the Island's trout and salmon habitat restoration programs. He assisted in the development of the province's Conservation Strategy, the first passed in Canada. He researched sites that were causing significant erosion into our rivers and advocated for better management practices utilizing first internal approaches to urge common sense solutions and, if that didn't