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     directors from which an executive committee will be chosen. 
     
     Some of the objectives of the trust are: 
     
    
   
   
    
     (a) To acquire and hold lands and waters in order to ensure 
     
     the proper use of plants and animals; 
     
    
   
   
    
     (b) To support, where applicable, traditional farming, 
     
     fishing, hunting, trapping, and recreational uses in 
     
     and around natural areas; 
     
    
   
   
    
     (c) To resist and/or oppose the over exploitation of any 
     
     species or development which may cause damage to the 
     
     habitat of any species; 
     
    
   
   
    
     (d) To develop management plans designed to maintain, promote 
     
     and protect the well being of life systems under the care 
     
     of the Trust; 
     
    
   
   
    
     (e) To purchase, lease, accept by gift or trust, or other- 
     
     wise acquire any real or personal property and/or 
     
     property rights which the trust may think necessary 
     
     for the purpose of conservation or protection; 
     
    
   
   
    
     (f) To educate the public to recognize the value of and 
     
     the need for protecting habitat and wildlife; 
     
    
   
   
    
     The meeting on April 10, at the Farm Centre is the first 
     
     meeting to inform the public about the Island Nature Trust. 
     
     All interested individuals and potential members are invited 
     
     and strongly encouraged to attend. We will have an interesting 
     
     and varied program which will explain the aims and objectives of 
     
     the Island Nature Trust and describe with colored slides sbme 
     
     of the special natural areas throughout the Island which we 
     
     would like to see protected. Environmental and natural history 
     
     groups will have displays and door prizes will be offered. 
     
     Refreshments will be served after the meeting. Come out for 
     
     an enjoyable evening, become informed about the Island's special 
     
     areas, and do your part to effect their protection and preservation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Kathy Martin 
     
     Concerned Islander 
     
     and Environmentalist 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The Dynamic Dunes - 
     
     a case for the preservation of dune instability 
     
    
   
   
    
     Historically and naturally, barrier beaches and coastal dunes 
     
     are unstable systems. A look at any old atlas will quickly show 
     
     the dramatic changes that occur. Within the Space of a few 
     
     hundred years (and often far less) sandspits change shape and 
     
     position, harbour mouths shift, barachois ponds appear and dis- 
     
     appear, dunes come and go. Some of these changes in coastal 
     
     geography and topography have indeed been triggered by human 
     
     activities (intentional or otherwise), but a far more powerful 
     
     agent of coastal engineering is the combination of wind and water. 
     
     We generally have little difficulty in understanding and accepting 
     
     the right of these natural forces to wear away cliff faces; why 
     
     then, do we so quickly rush to prevent them from taking their toll 
     
     in dunes? 
     
    
   
   
    
     A dune develops from the accumulation of wind-blown sand. If 
     
     marram grass becomes established it helps to hold and trap more 
     
     sand and the dune grows; when sand stops accumulating the marram 
     
     no longer thrives. By this stage of dune development other plants 
     
     such as bayberry, wild rose and white spruce may have colonised 
     
     the dune and given it a measure of performance. But if the marram 
     
     deteriorates and is not succeeded by other vegetative cover the 
     
     dune will decline. Blow-outs may occur and the loose sand will be 
     
     shifted about by the wind. These grains of sand may simply be 
     
     resculpted into a new dune growing on the same site or they may be