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 Editorial Published on October 1, 2011 in The Guardian Transportation officials should stay clear of the park in improving highway in Churchill One wonders about the thought process in our provincial Department of Transportation to even consider blasting a roadway through Strathgartney Park to divert the Trans-Canada Highway around the big curve in the Bonshaw […]

The next meeting of the Natural History Society is set for Tuesday Nov. 1, 2011 at 7:30 pm: at the Farm Centre, University Ave. Charlottetown. The guest speaker is Paul Giroux – The Ecological Intergrity of PEI National Park.

As published in The Guardian September 17, 2011 Editor: The proposed bypass surgery proposed for the Strathgartney Provincial Park seems ill-advised. If the vertical distance to be saved is only 15 metres, as Dr. Doug Sobey has said in his commentary (‘Stop this ridiculous idea\’, The Guardian, Sept. 16, 2011), the millions of taxpayer dollars

As published in The Guardian September 21, 2011 There is no need to build a highway through Strathgartney Provincial Park, says Green party leader Sharon Labchuk. Labchuk was at the park Wednesday where she said she is circulating a petition to try and stop any development through the park before it even starts. “We want

Sept. 24, 2011  The Bennett Birding Classic is bird count in support of Natural Areas Conservation. This Birding Classic takes place September 24th. You may choose to gather pledges in support of the lead team, or better yet – form your own team! There were 81 species spotted in 2010. This event has been an annual fund raiser for

There are many beautiful Island plants that are quite rare. Gary Schneider of Macphail Woods will elaborate on and share some of the splendor encompassed within these plants as the guest speaker for the October meeting of the Natural History Society. Specifically, Gary will use his work at Macphail Woods to illustrate the process of not only finding and

To foster public awareness and debate on conservation and environment issues, various Island environmental organizations are sponsoring an all-party public forum with candidates in the provincial election.  On Tuesday, Sept 20th, the public is invited to hear candidates answer questions at the Holland College Tourism and Culinary Centre,  4 Sydney St. from 7-9pm. The event will be

  This note may be of interest regarding gull research. Dear gull enthusiasts, I am a researcher at Acadia University working with Dr. Phil Taylor on a new project studying the movements and migrations of gulls from Sable Island, Nova Scotia.  In June 2011 we banded Herring Gulls with pink alpha-numeric bands as well as

Who knew dung-feeding butterflies are lurking in the woods of PEI ? In the first year of the Maritimes Butterfly Atlas in 2010, Donna Martin, an Island naturalist, was successful in finding several woodland dwelling Prince Edward Island species such as the Question Mark and the Gray Comma because she knew enough to look in