Jan. 7: The Society's Annual Meeting which starts at 7:30 P.M. will be 
     
     followed by an illustrated talk By Dan McAskill on backyard and forest 
     
     wildlife enhancement. The meeting will be at the Farm Centre. 
     
    

    
     Feb. 4: Geoff Hogan will be the Society's guest speaker. He will speak on 
     
     "Gardening with Native Plants“. The meeting starts at 7:30 P.M. at the 
     
     Farm Centre. 
     
    

    
     Mar. 3: The Society's guest speaker will be Dr. Rick Cawthorne. His topic will 
     
     be Parasites. The meeting will commence at 7:30 P.M. 
     
    

    
     Apr. 7: Dr. Pierre-Yves Daoust will be the feature speaker on the topic 
     
     "Stranding of Deep Sea Species on Island Beaches". The meeting will 
     
     commence at 7:30 P.M. at the Farm Centre. 
     
    

    
     May 5: The Society's annual slide show will be held at our regular monthly 
     
     meeting. It starts at the Farm Centre at 7:30 P.M. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NEWS FROM ABOUT 
     
    
   
   
    
     On June 5th, the Conservation Council of New Brunswick was added to the 
     
     United Nation's Global 500 Roll of Honour for outstanding environmental 
     
     achievements. (EcoAlert, June/July 1991, 22:3) 
     
    

    
     From August 20th to 22, Mount Allison University in Sackville will host 
     
     the "Aquatic Birds '91 Symposium". This symposium will consist of invited 
     
     papers and posters addressing the trophic web of lakes. For further information 
     
     contact the Symposium at Box 1006, Sackville, N.B. (Adapted from Gavia,Apr. 91) 
     
    

    
     Jack Ward Thomas, the editor of the classic forestry wildlife text 
     
     Wildlife Habitats in Managed Forest- The Blue Mountains of Oregon and 
     
     Washington, received the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award for 1991 from the Wildlife 
     
     Society. His work has been instrumental in changing the way forest wildlife are 
     
     managed in United States and Canada. His doctoral studies of wildlife in urban 
     
     and suburban settings served as the theme for the National Wildlife 
     
     Federation's "Backyard Wildlife Program". (Adapted from "The Wildlifer" # 245) 
     
    

    
     The Spring 1991 issue of Conservation carried an excellent article on the 
     
     futility of bounties for coyotes. Barry Sabean, the author, noted that the high 
     
     reproductive rate of the coyote and the difficulty of controlling it would mean 
     
     that it would take over 50 years to eliminate the coyote even if 75% were 
     
     eliminated each year. It is very unlikely that such a high level of removal 
     
     could be achieved. 
     
    

    
     The Quebec Labrador Foundation's nine-part radio series about the peeple 
     
     and environment of the Quebec North Shore is available on cassette. Order 
     
     individual stories for $5 each or $10 for the complete set. (Nexus 13:2, Spring 
     
     1991 
     
    

    
     The Government of Figi has joined Mexico in banning the export of 
     
     Hawksbill turtle shells. The Solomon Islands is the only remaining country 
     
     allowing the export of Hawksbill shells. (from Greenpeace via "Between the 
     
     Issues"Vol. IX, No. 2, May 1991). 
     
    

    
     The May 1991 issue of the Canadian Nature Federation's Almanac (5:3) 
     
     reported that northern land use planning has been lost to the budgetary axe. 
     
     Jacques Prescott, president of the CNF, indicated that “the land use planning 
     
     program is a model of community involvement in sustainable development" and 
     
     "withthe federal government's commitment to sustainable development and the 
     
     Green Plan, a program like this should not be so easily dismissed."