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     "That‘s right, the fifth and final season of the Maritime Breeding Bird 
     
     Atlas hagocofié and‘-- for all intents and purposes é- gone. Its kaput, finis, 
     
     all done;‘over with, a‘fait accompli. However you look at it, the data 
     
     collection phaSe of the most ambitious (and only) project ever conceived to map 
     
     the bird distribution’of this region is history." ‘The next task to face is the 
     
     conversion of the 150,000 plus pieces of breeding information into the book The 
     
     Atlas of Breeding Birds of the Maritime Provinces, due out in time for 
     
     Christmas of 1991. Brian"UaT2ell of the Bird Atlas has‘sent out a special '"' *3 
     
     request for any last observations you might have on the rarer species. You 
     
     simply drop him a note at the Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, 
     
     N.S. B3H 3A6 with the bird's name, the sighting (e.g. an oriole's nest was seen = 
     
     in an elm tree), the place, and approximate time. (MBBA Newsletter, No. 22) 
     
    

    
     The fgyewyear pollution abatement plan, the St. Lawrence Action Plan, 
     
     which Hap fifignpd'in 1988 has resulted in a 30% reduction in Jiquid toxic waste 
     
     dischéfigefipyéthe 50 chief polluters of the.St. Lawrence;ij§r;::(Environment- 9 
     
     Canada gait: News Release, PR-HQ-090-52) *;~u~-~~~ ~1- ,JT’ ’ 
     
    

    
     ._ Thegfirsi Great North York Tree Hunt yielded 1597nominatigpsgfbr’39 
     
     speciesjforgfihe“biggest trees in North York, Ontario..The giants included a 117 
     
     footfiqigh<ba33wood, an 85 foot high black locust, and a 95 foot high black 
     
     walnut: 5(from-Botany Report, Toronto Field Naturalist # 414, October 1990). 
     
    

    
     \ warfigrough Council, at its June 4th, 1990 meeting voted that "buffer 
     
     zoneSuadgacent to valleylands and watercourses will be negotiated on a 
     
     site-bygsit§?hasisl;.-using 30 meters along all ravines as a targeted goal, but 
     
     not as agktétgjory requirement"". Excerpted from the TorOnto Field Naturalist # 
     
     414, OctébgfigiQQD. ' * 
     
     , Ducks,Unlimited Canada was awarded an Environmental Achievement Award by 
     
     the Rt. Hon,FRamon John Hnatyshyn for its long-standing efforts at preserving 
     
     wetlandshinLCanada (0U Canada Conservator, Vol. 11, No. 2, 1990). DU's 
     
     involvement in Prince Edward Island started in 1971 with the construction of 
     
     the water,tontrol structures at Johnston's River and Forest Hill. In the last 
     
     19 years they have constructed 94 dams on 76 projects and improved some 6,000 
     
     acres of wetlands. Island sportsmen have contributed over $300,000 of the 
     
     nearly $3,000,000 invested in these structures and improvements for waterfowl 
     
     (1990 Charlottetown Committee Ducks Unlimited Canada Dinner Program). 
     
    

    
     'ZfTWk}QKen“Pivnick of the Agriculture Research Station in Saskatoon coltected 
     
     the first confirmed record of the Common Sooty Wing (Pholisora catullus) in 
     
     Saskatchewan. This is the 32nd skipper to be found in the province and it was 
     
     found near the proposed National Grasslands Park. Its larvae feed on pigweeds. 
     
     (from The Blue Jay, June 1990 (Sask. NHS newsletter)). 
     
    

    
     In the June 1990 issue of the Blue Jay, C. Stuart Houston provided a very 
     
     favorable review of the publication Newfoundland Birds: Exploitation, Study, 
     
     Conservation by William A. Montivecchi and Leslie M. Tuck. 1987. Publication 
     
     21, Nuttal Ornithological Club, Cambridge, Mass. 273 pages ($10.50 U.S.). 
     
    

    
     Starting in 1990, the Canadian Wildlife Service will establish non-toxic 
     
     shot hunting zones in areas where lead poisoning-of ducks has been found to be 
     
     a problem.cThree zones were created in 1990, 2 in southern British Columbia and 
     
     one in southwestern Ontario. (from CWS release, fall 1990) 
     
    

    
     The tents of the fall webworm were again prevalent in hardwoods along many 
     
     roadsides and hedgerows across the Island. Larch bark beetles caused some 
     
     mortality of larch in western Prince Edward Island and yellowheaded spruce 
     
     sawfly severely defoliated some black spruce on the Smith Road. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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