Gardening in Small Spaces Workshop: May 24th, 9:30 AM at Victoria Park – Karen Murchison is talking about history of gardening, garden design, soil nutrients and amendments etc.; Beth Hoar is talking about how invasive species arrived on PEI and how they are spread around, offering some identification and management tips and introducing the upcoming […]
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Nature PEI Monthly Meeting – Tuesday May 6, 2014 – Shy and Showy Wildflowers, and How to Find Them – Diane Griffin will be Nature PEI’s feature speaker. The Society’s meeting starts at 7:30 PM at Beaconsfield’s Carriage House at corner of West and Kent Streets, Charlottetown. A free event – all are welcome.
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Mark your calendars! Everyone is invited to a public symposium Tuesday, May 20, at 7 p.m. Entitled \”Island Water Futures: Assessing the Science,\” the forum will be in the Alex H. MacKinnon Auditorium, Room 242 of UPEI’s McDougall Hall. Speakers are Dr. Ryan O’Connor, Dr. Cathy Ryan, and Dr. Michael van den Heuvel, and the
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Many beautiful photos by Island photographers will provide a more artistic examination of nature in miniature. You can find an entire ecosystem in a fallen log, crook of a tree, clump of seaweed, tangle of flotsam and jetsam or among lichens and mosses on a rock. Sometimes there are too many species to identify. No
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The April meeting of Nature PEI will be held on Wednesday April 2, at 7:30. Beaconsfield Carriage House. Corner West & Kent St., Charlottetown.
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Dr. Mike van den Heuvel of the Canadian Rivers Institute at UPEI does not have to look far in this Island Province to find something to study. He and his team of students have been dissecting the factors that are increasingly causing our estuaries to become anoxic and our streams choked with sediment, limiting healthy
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Birding on PEI and NaturePEI are hosting a field trip to look for Woodpeckers, Creepers and early Spring Migrants on Sunday, March 23. Meet at Indigo Parking lot Charlottetown (to car pool) at 8:00 AM or the National Park entrance to the Reeds and Rushes Trail at approximately 8:30. We will also be checking other
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In 2012 Fiep de Bie flew to the Falklands Islands to volunteer as crew on the 56 meter, 100 year old square rigger “Europa”, (http://www.barkeuropa.com/) joining in the exploration of the Southern Ocean with her shipmates. Besides re-experiencing tall ships, she was able to hear the roar of the seals on South Georgia and indulge
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In support of the Great Backyard Bird Count we (Birding on PEI and Nature PEI) will be visiting bird feeders and sites around Charlottetown and area. We will meet at the parking lot at Tim Horton\’s in Cornwall – Sunday Feb. 16 at 8:00 AM and car pool from there to visit various feeders and locations. In
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Daytime flyers and night-time hooters are two broad categories of Owls in Prince Edward Island, and of the near dozen species that have been recorded here, most are indeed nocturnal. A mere 60 years ago these birds of prey were submitted for bounty in PEI. Bird expert Dwaine Oakley knows the owls and will string
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