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     Nov. 18-20: A Bioregional Farmer/Scientist Workshop in Organic Agriculture 
     
     (Maine and Maritime Provinces) at Fredericton, New Brunswick. Island— 
     
     will be taking part in the organizing of the workshop, as well as 
     
     being some of the guest speakers. For further information, please 
     
     contact the Department of Agriculture. 
     
    

    
     Nov. 26: A meeting will be held at 1 p.m. at the CP Hotel in Charlottetown 
     
     for people who would like to become more active in promoting environ— 
     
     mental well-being. For more information, see notice in this newletter. 
     
    

    
     Dec. 2: CBC's Canadian Reflections will show "Island Nature", a video 
     
     produced by Brian Pollard for the Island Nature Trust. The program 
     
     begins at 1 p.m. 
     
    

    
     Dec. 6: The monthly meeting of the Natural History Society of P.E.I. at 
     
     the Farm Centre, 8 p.m. Martin Rudy Haase, of Friends of Nature, will 
     
     show a video and speak on his friend, the late Richard St. Barbe 
     
     Baker. See note in this newsletter. 
     
    

    
     Dec.—Jan.: A Birds of Prey exhibit at the Eptek Centre in Summerside. 
     
    

    
     The exhibit is from the Provincial Museum of British Columbia. 
     
    

    
     Jan. 3: UPEI professor Earl Wonnacott will speak on astronomy at the 
     
     January meeting of the Naturual History Society of P.E.I. at the 
     
     Farm Centre, 8 p.m. in Charlottetown. 
     
    

    
     Feb. 7: Wade MacKinnon, a forest technician, will give NHS members an 
     
     update of the work he and others are doing with the Montague 
     
     Watershed Management program. The meeting, as usual, will be held 
     
     at 8 p.m. at the Farm Centre. 
     
    

    
     June 11—14: The Canadian Nature Federation's annual conference will be 
     
     hosted in Charlottetown by the Natural History Society and the 
     
     Island Nature Trust. A one-day symposium and exciting field trips 
     
     top the agenda. To receive a registration package when available 
     
     write to the Island Nature Trust, P.0. Box 265, Charlottetown, 
     
    

    
     ClA 7K4. 
     
    

    
     Dec. 7: Martin Rudy Haase will be showing "On the Edge of the Forest", 
     
     filmed in Western Australia and narrated by E.F. Schumacher, at 
     
     a meeting of the Eastern Woodlands Association. Mr. Haase will also 
     
     talk on the importance of natural, old-growth forest. The meeting, 
     
     at the Regional Services Centre in Montague, begins at 7:30. 
     
    

    
     Dec. 18: Christmas Bird Count in the P.E.I. National Park area. For more 
     
     information, see story in this issue. 
     
    

    
     Dec. 27: Christmas Bird Count in the Hillsborough area. 
     
    

    
     Dec. 31: Montague area Christmas Bird Count. 
     
    
   
   
    
     PEI joins heritage rivers program 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Federal Environment Minister, Tom McMillan; and Prince Edward 
     
     Island's Minister of Tourism and Parks, Gordon MacInnis, announced on 
     
     Oct. 5 that P.E.I. has joined the Canadian Heritage Rivers System. 
     
    

    
     Canadian Heritage River designation recognizes the nationally sig- 
     
     nificant rivers of Canada and ensures conservation of their natural, 
     
     historical and recreational values through long-term management plans. 
     
    

    
     The Canadian Heritage Rivers System is a joint program established 
     
     in 1984 between the federal government and, to date, eight provinces 
     
     (Newfoundalnd, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, 
     
     Quebec, and now Prince Edward Island), as well as the Yukon and North- 
     
     west Territories. 
     
    
   
   
    
     "I am delighted with my home province's decision to participate in 
     
    
   
   
    
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