From coordinator at blomidonnaturalists.ca Wed Sep 6 05:46:57 2023 From: coordinator at blomidonnaturalists.ca (Caroline Beddoe) Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 07:46:57 -0300 Subject: [BNS_members] Reminder of Upcoming Events with the BNS! Message-ID: <02f0de98a317508b991262306fb18b05@blomidonnaturalists.ca> Good morning, A reminder of some upcoming nature events: September 9: Kentville World Environment Day! Originally scheduled for June but rescheduled due to weather, join the Kentville Rotary club and various environmental and community groups on September 9th from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm in Oakdene Park, Kentville. This free, open-to-all event in the park celebrates nature and the environment by bringing together diverse environmental exhibitors to share information and education. Special children's events & workshops! Free plants, shrubs, and seed packages until supplies last. Free Lunch & Snacks (bring your own bowl). Flying Squirrel Adventures & the BNS will be there in the park celebrating nature connection, education, and protection! At the Flying Squirrel Adventures table we will host a nature art station for all ages where folks can drop in to create a canvas on shells, rocks or paper using natural paint brushes found at Oakdene. Stop by and say hi to learn more about local nature and get some resources at the BNS table, too. September 10: Looking Closer: Pollinators, Plants & Photography! - Workshop The Butterflyway Project is hosting a fun and informative day-long workshop! Learn all about native plants, wildlife-friendly gardening, pollinators, and how to monitor and photograph nature with Carolyn Green, Pam Heron & Garry Conway on September 10th. Registration is limited and required: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/blomidon-naturalists-society/events/looking-closer-pollinators-plants-and-photography/ September 16: All Ages & Family Birding at Miner's Marsh! Join us for a morning of kid- and family-friendly birding and conservation action at this popular park right in Kentville! Join Nature Nova Scotia, Blomidon Naturalists Society, and Flying Squirrel Adventures on Sept 16th from 10:00 am to noon for a leisurely guided walk around Miner's Marsh in Kentville. We'll practice using binoculars, learn about bird behaviour and songs, and discuss ways we can be better bird stewards at home, at school, and at work. More details & registration (free) here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/family-birding-at-miners-marsh-kentville-tickets-667530560877?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=event_reminder&utm_term=eventname September 19: Monthly Meeting & Nature Talk Join the BNS as our monthly meetings & nature talk series returns in September! We will have our monthly meeting in-person in Wolfville and online on Zoom during the third week of the month, on Tuesday September 19th starting at 7:00 pm with a social, and with the talk from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm. We will meeting at the Lions Club in Wolfville and online on Zoom (register for the Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUuf-6qrTsrG90tOP5aHsauHkVBkCEvDDAe) The Lions Club is located at 36 Elm Ave, and is on the main level and is wheelchair accessible. Please note the Tuesday date (as opposed to the 3rd Monday of the month - we will provide an update shortly on the other fall meeting times based on pending location availability). For our September meeting, we are delighted to have Suzie Currie present on her research with a talk entitled, "How the social life of fish influences responses to climate warming". Dr. Suzie Currie is at Acadia University. and she is interested in how animals cope with environmental stress in marine and freshwater environments. More details coming! -- Caroline Beddoe She/her 613-619-1098 Program Coordinator Blomidon Naturalists Society Wolfville, Nova Scotia _ Blomidon Naturalists Society activities take place in Mi'kma'ki, the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq People. We acknowledge that we have a responsibility to honour and learn about their histories and current cultures and to actively work in support of reconciliation. We are committed to fostering respectful and sustainable relationships with the Indigenous Peoples of this land, with all other organisms, with the land and with the water._ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Family Birding Sept 16.png Type: image/png Size: 1306280 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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The meeting will be held in the Council Chambers, Municipal Complex, 181 Coldbrook Village Park Drive (near the highway 101 exit in Coldbrook). You can go into the building through the front doors and enter Council Chambers from the lobby. It would be wonderful to have as many as people as possible come to support the presentation as Councillors always take note of numbers for such events. In addition, we are looking for volunteers to move forward with this campaign over the coming months. If you cannot come, but are interested in helping, please e mail me. Cheers Alan __________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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You will be able to pay with a credit card on line (preferred) but you can also choose to send a check (not preferred) or an e-transfer to treasurer at blomidonnaturalistsd.ca Within a short time you will be receiving an email from the program, JoinIt, where you can see your information, e.g. address, email, and membership type, regular or family, or student. Any information that is wrong you can correct. We really hope that?s this will streamline the membership process. Thanks, Soren President BNS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From soren at bondrup.com Sun Sep 17 09:21:41 2023 From: soren at bondrup.com (Soren Bondrup-Nielsen) Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2023 11:21:41 -0300 Subject: [BNS_members] Zoom meeting invitation - Blomidon Naturalists Society's Personal Meeting Room Message-ID: Blomidon Naturalists Society is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Blomidon Naturalists Society's Personal Meeting Room Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2676517871?pwd=Zmg5NWxCR0hRc3I1MDlMUG1jR2swUT09 Meeting ID: 267 651 7871 Passcode: 0uz0b7 Blomidon Naturalist?s Society Meeting Tuesday September 19th starting at 7:00 pm with a social, and with the talk from 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm. Wolfville Lions Hall ?How the social life of fish influences responses to climate warming? Dr. Suzie Currie As high temperatures continue to set records around the world, fish are facing alarming, regular thermal extremes. Animals will either adapt to these warming temperatures, migrate, or face possible extinction. We use a hermaphroditic air-breathing fish, the mangrove rivulus, as a model to shed light on the perils of and possible adaptations to climate warming in aquatic environments. There are many factors that may make animals more susceptible to climate warming, and one that we?ve been investigating is the social environment. 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In-Reply-To: <63530892-F142-422C-892A-9F998B0B1409@acadiau.ca> References: <63530892-F142-422C-892A-9F998B0B1409@acadiau.ca> Message-ID: <23876512-2A73-44D2-8DEE-56BCF0EB63FA@gmail.com> Hi All > The BNS presentation to County Council today advocating for the new protected area in Kings County was well received. We will be sending around an info sheet on it within a couple of weeks. Thank you to those who were able to join us! > On a similar theme, everyone can contribute to this work from home in that the the NS Department of Environment and Climate Change has issued a call for public input on how they should plan a strategy for getting from the current 13% of protected areas in the province to 20% by 2030, a goal which is enshrined in legislation. > > Progress has been slow in making this happen but the consultation has now arrived as a simple 6 question survey which must be completed on-line (10-20 minutes of your time) by October 6, 2023. Below is detailed information provided by Nina Newington on her response to the questions. Nina is a member of the BNS Protected Areas Committee and a leader in the Save Our Old Forests campaign. She has a wealth of knowledge on the topic from a biodiversity and ecological forestry perspective. We are providing this simply as background when you complete the questionnaire. Please only use it as you see fit and it is preferable to put things in your own words with your own reflections. These are Nina?s perspectives. > > It is very important to complete the questionnaire as the government needs to know a lot of people care deeply about these issues. It is not as important as to what you say as simply saying something, even if it is very short. 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Progress has been slow in making this happen but the consultation has now arrived as a simple 6 question survey which must be completed on-line (10-20 minutes of your time) by October 6, 2023. Below is detailed information provided by Nina Newington on her response to the questions. Nina is a member of the BNS Protected Areas Committee and a leader in the Save Our Old Forests campaign. She has a wealth of knowledge on the topic from a biodiversity and ecological forestry perspective. We are providing this simply as background when you complete the questionnaire. Please only use it as you see fit and it is preferable to put things in your own words with your own reflections. These are Nina?s perspectives. It is very important to complete the questionnaire as the government needs to know a lot of people care deeply about these issues. It is not as important as to what you say as simply saying something, even if it is very short. 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