{"id":1381,"date":"2018-04-20T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2018-04-20T14:46:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:46:31","slug":"sandy-lake-conservation-associations-earth-day-event-april-22-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/2018\/04\/20\/sandy-lake-conservation-associations-earth-day-event-april-22-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Sandy Lake Conservation Association\u2019s Earth Day Event &#8211; April 22, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_1383\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/PitANDMOUND.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1383\" src=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/PitANDMOUND-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/PitANDMOUND-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/PitANDMOUND-768x617.jpg 768w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/PitANDMOUND-1024x823.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/PitANDMOUND.jpg 1209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David P (left) and Bob G ponder pit and mound topgraphy<\/p><\/div>Starting at 1:30 pm at the inner parking lot of the Bedford Lions Club Beach at the end of Smith&#8217;s Road, off the 102 at Hammonds Plains Road.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Guscott is leading a forest walk around a portion of Sandy Lake. It is expected to last 1.5 hours minimum. It will be an informative walk (not a hike).<br \/>\nKaren Robinson of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sandylake.org\/\">Sandy Lake Conservation Association<\/a> will talk about the efforts being made to protect Sandy Lake and Environs, and Jenny Lugar from <a href=\"http:\/\/ourhrmalliance.ca\/\">Our HRM Alliance<\/a> will talk about how Sandy lake and Environs relate to Halifax&#8217;s developing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifax.ca\/about-halifax\/regional-community-planning\/community-plans\/halifax-green-network-plan\">Green Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bob is a naturalist and forest ecologist who retired in 2009 from the NS Dept. of Natural Resources after 30 years as a Chief Technician and Forest Health Specialist. Bob and David P are collaborating on studies of <a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/forests\/pit-mound-topography\/\">pit and mound topography<\/a> at sites on Sandy Lake and Grand Lake. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting at 1:30 pm at the inner parking lot of the Bedford Lions Club Beach at the end of Smith&#8217;s Road, off the 102 at Hammonds Plains Road. Bob Guscott is leading a forest walk around a portion of Sandy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/2018\/04\/20\/sandy-lake-conservation-associations-earth-day-event-april-22-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks-walks"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/sandylakebedford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}