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     MAMMALS ' "“ 
     
    

    
     Mink — tracks of two in soft sand about halfway out on Cavendish Sandspit 
     
    

    
     Sept. 21 (Brian Dalzell - BD) 
     
    

    
     Weasel - One ran across the road in front of my car on a beach road at 
     
     Cable Head, Sept. 27 (BD) 3v,» 
     
    

    
     Coyote - darted out in front of my car 
     
     on the road to Feehan's Point 
     
     near Savage Harbour. It had 
     
     what appeared to be a ruffed 
     
     grouse in its jaws and ran 
     
     down the road about 200 yards 
     
     before cutting off into the 
     
     woods. I would estimate its 
     
     weight at about 40 pounds, no 
     
     more. In coloration it was darker along the back than the sides, 
     
     those being a dull dun color almost like faded marsh grass. Sept. 
     
     28 (BD) 
     
    

    
     Grey seal — 6 seen in the surf off East Poin, Nov. 2 (BD) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     FLOWERS 
     
     Lupin — seen in bloom by Alan Saint (AS) Oct. 11 
     
     - one still in bloom on the roadshoulder; Covehead Bay on Nov. 2 (BD) 
     
     Mountain avens — a couple of plants still blooming at Covehead Bay on Nov. 
     
     2 (BD) 
     
     Dandelion - seen in Frenchfort on Oct. 25 (AS) 
     
    
   
   
    
     New res erua 
     
    
   
   
    
     The new Ellesmere Island National Park Reserve will protect almost 
     
     40,000 square kilometers of spectacular scenery containing mountain ranges, 
     
     glaciers, fiords, musk oxen and Peary caribou. 
     
    

    
     The national park reserve has been established in response to Canadian 
     
     and world-wide demands from environmentalists and conservationists to pro— 
     
     tect this unique and remote Arctic wilderness. A national park reserve has 
     
     the same protected status as a national park, except that the establishment 
     
     of a reserve does not affect native land negotiations. 
     
    
   
   
    
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