Restoration: The Status of the Science published by the 0.5, Environmental Protection Agency and the State Association of Wetland Managers in 1989.

The central incisor tooth from a bull moose taken during the legal hunting season in the Miramachi River Valley, New Brunswick revealed that this animal was 17.5 years old, the second oldest moose ever recorded in the hundreds of analyses carried out by the Matson's Lab. The oldest was 19 and taken from Denali National Park in Alaska. (ASFWB 8:1, March 1992)

The Non-Governmental Relations Division of Environment Canada has produced a consultations calendar which lists the consultation initiatives of the federal government of which they are aware. The topics on which consultations are called for include: clean Air, Water, and Land - ozone depleting substances; amendments to Montreal Protocol; smog reduction and control; National Water Conference (fall 1992), Indian health and water, Canada Oceans Act, Ocean Dumping Regulations, new substance notification regulations, amendments to PCB regulations, confidential information disclosure regulations, metals toxicity, national contaminated sites remediation, national strategy on waste paper and paperboard, radioactive waste management, export and importation of hazardous waste; Sustaining Our Renewable Resources — environmental sustainability in agriculture; sustainable fisheries; Special Places and Species - management plans for parks, new national parks, Canadian Parks Service POlicy, Wild Animal and Plant Protection Act, northern diseased bison action plan; Migratory Birds Convention amendments, Migratory Game Bird Hunting Regulations, Migratory Birds Convention Act/Canada Wildlife Act, federal heritage strategy; The Arctic - Arctic contaminants, waste cleanup, water monitoring, Northern Inland Waters Act, environment/economy integration; Global Environmental Security — Efficiency and alternate energy, energy efficiency regulations, energuide equipment labeling, federal-provincial agreements on global warming, global convention on biodiversity; Environmentally Responsible Decision-making - Indian partnerships, environmental choice, sustainable development and the .minerals and metals industry, harnessing market forces for environmental protection, national state of the environment organization, Canadian environmental citizenship program, Canadian Environmental Awareness Research Council, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act procedural guidelines and reference guides; and Emergency Preparedness - Arctic regional environmental emergency team. (excerpted from Canadian Environmental Network Bulletin 2:3)

StatsCan, the major collector of social and economic information in Canada has delved into environmental statistics. They have projects underway on: geographically based environmental information system to serve client requests for environmentally relevant socioeconomic information; a reference inventory containing information on Federal Government environmental databases; the collection and development of new statistics on environmental themes; the continuing preparation of environmental statistics publications; and the development of natural resource and environmental accounts as part of Statistics Canada's national accounting activities. For more information contact Bruce Mitchell, Environment and Wealth Accounts Division, R.H. Coats Building, Statistics Canada, Ottawa KlA 0T6 (From Delta Vol.2 #2, winter 1991)

The International Shorebird Survey, sponsored and operated by the Manomet Bird Observatory, counts shorebirds in 35 countries throughout the western hemisphere. More than 800 participants send their data to Manomet, where it is collated and summarized. This information is used to identify major stopover and migration staging areas and to aid shorebird research,

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