Programme: Upcoming Meetings and Events for 2014
Through the fall, winter and spring, we meet at 7:30 pm on the 4th Monday of the month in the auditorium of the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax. Meetings are open to the public. Field trips are held throughout the year, but most frequently during the summer. They are usually held on a Saturday or Sunday. The field trips are also open to the public, except when numbers must be restricted.
NS Wild Flora Society Board hard at work planning fall programme!
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014Point Pleasant Park with Peter Duinker
Peter, Professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Studies
at Dalhousie University, was intimately involved with the Point Pleasant Park Comprehensive Plan and more recently with the Urban Forest Master Plan
for Halifax. We will do a walk-around of the park.
Meet at 2 p.m. at Canteen by the seaside entrance to the park.
Raindate: Sunday October 19th, same time & place.
Monday, Oct 27, 2014 The Atlantic Coast Jack Pine/Broom Crowberry Barrens
David Patriquin will talk about this globally rare community found in isolated windswept patches on rock outcrops from the Aspotogon Peninsula to Canso, and in a few spots in Maine and nowhere else.
7:30 p.m. at the NSMNH
Saturday, November 1 (Raindate: Sun Nov. 2)
Jack Pine/Broom Crowberry Barrens
Visit to recently burnt and unburnt Jack Pine/Broom Crowberry Barrens on Halifax south mainland.
Meet: 1 p.m. at Parking lot at Frog Pond*
Raindate: Sunday Nov. 2, same times, place to meet.
*Frog Pond is on Purcell's Cove Road 2.2 Km after the intersection of Herring Cove.
The Nearest Metro Transit Stop: At the corner of PurcellŐs Cove Rd. and Parkhill Drive,
145 m after the parking lot. Routes #15 at Mumford.
Monday November 24, 2014
Plant Identification of forest flora in the Field
Norris Whiston has been developing a number of user-friendly, illustrated keys to simplify identification of the more common vascular plants, mosses, lichens and ferns in the field. In this evening session, he will test our ID skills!
7:30 p.m. at the NSMNH
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