successes there led to his appointment as manager of the Provincial 
     
     Conservation Strategy and secretary to the P.E.I. Environmental Advisory 
     
     Council, P.E.I. Department of Environment. 
     
    

    
     Bruce's conservation work has been recognized by the receipt of four 
     
     awards. In 1987, Bruce won the Sportsman-Conservationist of the Year Award from 
     
     the Central Queens Branch, P.E.I. Wildlife Federation. This was followed in 
     
     1988 by both the Merit Award of the Atlantic Society of Fish and Wildlife 
     
     Biologists and the Sportsman-Conservationist of the Year Award by the Prince 
     
     Edward Island Wildlife Federation. In 1990 he won an Appreciation Award from 
     
     the O'Leary Branch, P.E.I. Wildlife Federation. 
     
    

    
     For the past 14 years Bruce has been one of the Island's most active 
     
     conservationists. He has led many initiatives both inside and outside 
     
     government which have benefitted all. Thanks Bruce. Thanks also to your wife 
     
     Linda and your son Ben who have given up time that they could have shared with 
     
     you so that others could benefit. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NEHS FROM ABOUT 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Nordic Ski Association on the Island will be installing a bird feeder 
     
     at the Nordic Ski Touring Centre in Brookvale. This should afford the skiers 
     
     using this excellent series of family and championship trails a better 
     
     opportunity to see the birds which frequent the fields and forest through which 
     
     the trials wind. The Association will also be erecting nest boxes along the 
     
     trails to increase the number of potential nesting sites in the younger white 
     
     spruge stands which have few natural cavities. (from Doug Murray, December, 
     
     1990 
     
    

    
     Researchers at the University of Toronto are working with algae to 
     
     determine whether certain species might be useful in trapping pollutants in 
     
     water. They are working under a $79,000 Environment Canada contract to identify 
     
     under what conditions and which species of algae are the best producers of 
     
     fibrils, microscopic extensions of the algae that act as a microscopic 
     
     drift-net. As the surface of the algal cell and the fibrils are negatively 
     
     charged it might be feasible to trap positively charged pollutants. (March, 
     
     1990 R&D Bulletin) 
     
    

    
     The Fish and Wildlife Division staff hosted a workshop on steel shot in 
     
     November. This workshop provided those in attendance with the best information 
     
     available on the positive and negative implications of switching from lead 
     
     based shotshells to steel based shotshells. As lead poisoning of waterfowl, 
     
     particularly Ring-neck Ducks, has been found in certain ponds and still waters 
     
     where these birds can ingest lead, this workshop is on interest to all 
     
     conservationists. (information from Al Godfrey) 
     
    

    
     There are mOre than 30,000 species of spiders in the world (perhaps as 
     
     many as 90,000), of which only a dozen or so are harmful to humans, and then 
     
     only in self defense. There are no spiders known to be the vectors in the 
     
     transmission of disease to humans or livestock. Spiders help to control disease 
     
     in humans by preying upon trillions of mosquitos, flies and other critters 
     
     which plague us and our domestic animals and plants. (from Nature Study 44:1 
     
     Sept/90 
     
    

    
     The 29 refineries in Canada process approximately 1.5 million barrels of 
     
     crude oil daily. On a national basis, the refineries complied with the monthly 
     
     pollution release limits more than 94% of the time, with the daily limits more 
     
     than 99% of the time, and with the storm water limits 92% of the time. These 
     
     numbers indicate an 80%+ reduction of contaminants between 1972 and 1987 
     
     according to the Minister of Environment's Press Release. While these mark a 
     
    
   
   
    
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