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Author Archives: davidp
Monday March 19th: A Living Building
The Centre for Built Environment (CBE), located at the NSCC’s Waterfront Campus, is an example of restorative building design. Join us at 9:45 a.m. for a 10:00 a.m. tour of the Woodside Wing of NSCC’s Waterfront Campus. Read more
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N.S. Wetland Courses 2012
The Fern Hill Institute for Plant Conservation in assocation with the K.C. Irving Environmental Science Centre is offering four practical 3-4 day wetland courses in 2012. Details
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Tuesday, March 27th: Sable Island Update
The eighth Annual Public Meeting on Sable Island, 7-9:30 pm at SMU. Talks about research, art, and island activities, and a review of National Park status, followed by a Question & Answer session, and reception. More info
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Thursday March 15: People of a Feather
A very exciting film screening of the award winning documentary “People of a Feather” and a conversation with the director Joel Heath will be hosted by the EAC on Thursday, March 15 at 7pm at Carbon Arc Cinema (Khyber building: … Continue reading
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Thursday March 1: AGM and Members’ Slide Night
HFN is noted for speedy rather than lengthy AGMs, always followed by a wonderful slide show presentation and a social. All welcome. Read more
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Saturday Feb. 4th: Annual Sewer Stroll
With the Nova Scotia Bird Society we’ll visit all of our favourite winter birding sites in and around Halifax Harbour looking for ducks, gulls, and alcids. Meet 9:00 a.m., McCormack’s Beach Prov. Park parking lot, just past Boondocks Restaurant in … Continue reading
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Thursday Feb. 2: The Amazon Rain Forest
Come join us and enjoy Barbara O’Shea’s illustrated travelogue about an adventure voyage on the headwaters of the Amazon. Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 7:30 p.m. Read more
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Dorcas Copper butterfly at Black River Fen, Inverness Co.
John Klymko et al. recently reported occurrence of the rare Dorcas Copper butterfly in a rich calcareous fen at Black River, Inverness County. It’s typically associated with shrubby cinquefoil. Read more about this butterfly and its habitat at Black River … Continue reading
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Thoughts for the New Year
Landscape painter Mark Brennan makes a plea to recognize the intrinsic value of all living things in his moving film, The Acadian Forest, The Story So Far.
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Thursday, Jan 5, 2012: Changing Sea Levels
Join documentary photographer Dan Doucette to learn about the natural disaster that’s been centuries in the making. 7:30 p.m. NSMNH.
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Protect Angevine Lake
Angevine Lake is the largest lake in Cumberland county, Nova Scotia and the closest to the Northumberland Strait. It has the highest documented biodiversity for herpetological species in the province (salamanders, frogs and snakes) and is the only crown owned … Continue reading
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