litter from 400 meters of a stream in High Park, planted grass on erosion 
     
     sites, built animal cover shelters, and mounted a public display. The lst 
     
     Mananook Scouts from Grand Manan, N.B. carried out a media campaign, cleaned 
     
     beaches and roads, constructed and painted anti-litter signs, and constructed 
     
     12 wood duck nest boxes, 6 nesting platforms, and 100 bird houses. (Adapted 
     
     from "Scouting Takes Action on the Environment“, "The Leader", Jan./90. 
     
    

    
     In the past decade, paper recycling in Canada has increased from 1,200,000 
     
     tonnes to over 1,900,000 tonnes in 1990 (source Canadian Pulp and Paper 
     
     Association ad in Canadian Geographic, Aug./Sept. 1990). Legislative 
     
     initiatives on compulsory inclusion of recycled newsprint in some northeastern 
     
     States should lead to substantial increases in recycling. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rudy Stocek reported a fall in winter House Sparrow numbers in three 
     
    
   
   
    
     Christmas Bird Count areas in southern New Brunswick since 1969. He noted that 
     
     reductions have been correlated with House Finch increases in five northeastern 
     
     states but decreases have also occurred in other states and provinces where the 
     
     House Finch was not present. (adapted from "The Rise and Fall of Passer r 
     
     domesticus" in N. B. Naturalist 17(4):60). 
     
    

    
     e Quebec Labrador Foundation's Atlantic Center for the Environment 
     
     (ACE-QLF) utilized funds from its Atlantic Region Stewardship Fund to host a 
     
     workshop on private land conservation in Brudenell last September. 
     
     Representatives of federal, provincial, academic, and private agencies from 
     
     eastern Canada and the northeastern states participated. (adapted from Nexus, 
     
    

    
     QLF Atlantic Center for the Environment 13(1): Fall 1990) 
     
    

    
     The California Condor's population increased to 39 with the hatching of 7 
     
     eggs in the captive breeding program at the San Diego and Los Angeles Zoos. 
     
     Another hatch from the 8 remaining eggs is anticipated. Continued success in 
     
     this program will lead to the reintroduction of these condors to the wild. 
     
     (Adapted from Birding Briefs, "Birder's World“, August, 1990) 
     
    

    
     The QLF recently announced internships and fellowships in the areas of 
     
     conservation education, research, natural history, inter-regional exchange, 
     
     program administration, publications, and community service. These are for 
     
     highly qualified high school, college, and graduate students and recent 
     
     graduates. The list will be posted at our Society meetings or contact the 
     
     newsletter editor. (QLF Atlantic Center for the Environment release) 
     
    

    
     For the more competitive birders - the Guinness Book of Records "champion 
     
     bird spotter" was bestowed on Norm Chesterfield in 1983. His life list is 6,457 
     
     species while his Canadian list is 506. (Spring 1988 “Landmarks'” "No Flight of 
     
     Fancy" by Paul McLaughlin AND "Canadian Birding" 1(2) April 1990) 
     
    

    
     The Whooping Crane at Wood Buffalo National Park enjoyed another 
     
     successful year. No losses were reported on the 141 birds that migrated to Wood 
     
     Buffalo from Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas last spring. Thirty-two 
     
     nests produced at least 15 young and several other pairs were successful. In 
     
     addition, 11 of the 12 second eggs in the nests which are abandoned by the 
     
     parents after hatching of the first egg were collected by biologists and 
     
     hatched at the International Crane Foundation. These young joined the 22 adults 
     
     which are adjusting well to Wisconsin after their move from the Patuxent 
     
     Wildlife Research Center in Maryland to the ICF in 1989. This makes 118 eggs 
     
     that have been moved since 1967. (adapted from Birding Briefs, "Birder's 
     
     World", August and October issues, 1990) 
     
    

    
     The Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists is off and running. Their first 
     
     newsletter is due out in the near future. Memberships are $12 regular and $15 
     
     family. You can subscribe through FNSN, 1747 Summer St. Halifax, N.S. B3H 3A6. 
     
    

    
     Successful compiling of the photographs of over 3800 whales in its North 
     
     American Humpback Whale Catalogue and a second project to collate photographs ,_ :‘, 
     
    
   
   
    
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