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Get your ideas on potential field trips to Coordinator, Leonel Richard, at 773 3774
Please call Angie 228 4455 or each other for car pool

Events in 2006:

Christmas Bird Count Miramichi Dec. 30 Harry Walker, Pam Watters

Christmas Bird Count in Red Bank Dec. 16 Dave McLeod
Elizabeth Walsh

December Meeting with guest speaker Nelson Poirier
Moments with Mother Nature...on film with unique sounds: birds, butterflies, moths, caterpillars, dragonflies, amphibians, reptiles, plants, and lots more. Dec. 11 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room

Woodlot Management (Walk, bring rubber boots) Nov. 19 1 p.m. Bryenton Shawn Charlebois

November Meeting with guest speaker Gart Bishop a field botanist from Sussex: "What is a Naturalist?"
Election of Executives Nov. 13 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room

October meeting with guest speaker Tony VanBuskirk:
"People and the Miramichi Forest - Ice age to 1962"
Oct. 16 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room

Hal Hinds Memorial Nature Walk at the Millbank Nature Trail Oct.15 1 p.m. Power Plant Jim Saunders
Dave McLeod
Leonel Richard

Trip to Big Bald Mountain Sep. 17 10a.m. Wayerton Nelson Cloud

The Nature Conservancy of Canada invites to a boat trip to a barrier beach in the Tabusintac Nature Preserve Sep. 2 1 p.m. Tabusintac Nelson Cloud

Yggdrasil Field Day (Photosynthesis; Mosses, Lichens and Fungi) Sept. 9

Sandpiper - Grande Anse Flat at Johnson´s Mill Aug.11 10a.m. Tim Hortons Elizabeth Walsh

NB Botany Club outing to Third Lake, Madawaska County
http://www.macbe.com/botanyclub/english/enevents.html Aug.12 Rick Fournier

NB Botany Club outing to Kennedy Lakes PNA
http://www.macbe.com/botanyclub/english/enevents.html July 15 10 a. m. directions
sent by email Dave McLeod
Jim Saunders

Orchids outing July 6 5:30 p.m. directions
sent by email Jim Saunders

Tracy Glynn from the Conservation Council of New Brunswick will be talking about the Acadia Forest.
The Conservation Council has a program on conserving the Acadia Forest and she will be discussing more about this program.
June 12 7 p. m. Sobeys Comm. Room Elizabeth Walsh

NB Federation of Naturalists
Annual General Meeting with outings June 9,10,11 Memramcook www.naturenb.ca

New Brunswick Botany Club:
Topic: Annual Spring Wildflower Walk
Leader: Jim Goltz
Location: Bell Forest Nature Preserve, Carleton May 21 1 p.m. directions sent by email

Visit to Miramichi Fish Hatchery May 13 10 a.m. 485, Route 420
South Esk, 5 km west of
Miramichi Nelson Cloud

May meeting.
Guest speaker will be Jim Saunders, a member of the Miramichi Naturalists' Club. He will be talking about the wonders of plants and photosynthesis.
May 8 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room
Jim Saunders

Guest speaker is Jim Wilson from the St. John Naturalists' Club. He is also the Membership Secretary for NBFN and is a board member
for the New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund. Jim is a Naturalist extraordinaire. He has been all over the world birding but will stick to talking about "A Naturalist's Year in New Brunswick". The presentation will talk about various site in New Brunswick good for birding.
April 10 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room Elizabeth Walsh

Visiting a sugar camp in Allardville. We tour the facilities from tap to table. Operator will show us the process of making Maple Sugar. We will see how the sap is collected and boiled down to make syrup, maple sugar, and other maple treats. The tour will end with a breakfast of Pancakes and Maple Syrup at the Sugar Camp. We will meet at 9:00 at the Tim Horton's Douglastown parking lot. March 25. 9 a. m. Tim Horton's
Douglastown parking lot. Elizabeth Walsh

Twigs and Tracks walk.
Regional Biologist Tom Pettigrew from DNR will lead a hike in the woods to identify animal tracks and winter twigs.
March 18.
1 p.m. Wayerton Bridge Elizabeth Walsh

Guest speaker is Nev Garrity from the Canadian
Wildlife Service in Sackville. He is a wildlife technician. His presentation will be about his bird banding surveys that he did this past fall at Amherst Point Bird Sanctuary. He will bring some of the equipment used in banding operations for us to see, like: mist nests, bands, and banding tools. Nelson Cloud of the Miramichi Naturalists' Club also had a chance to work on this project with Nev and Nelson will be sharing some of the wonderful photographs that he took at that time.
March 13 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room Nelson Cloud

Horse Drawn Sleigh Ride ( $ 8 per person ) March 11 7-11p.m. please contact Nelson for more information, he talked about pot luck and owls
Nelson Cloud
T.: 836 2841

Guest speaker Jim Goltz who works for the Agriculture and Fisheries Department. He is also a member of the New Brunswick Botanical Society and has regular Botanical Rambles appearing in the "NB Naturalists" publication. He will be talking to us about his recent visit to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Feb. 13 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room Nelson Cloud

Snowshoe outing Feb. 2006 Millbank

Member´s Meeting Jan. 9 7 p.m.

Christmas Bird Count Dec. 27 Harry Walker, Pam Watters

Pot-luck get together at Elizabeth´s house Dec. 18 2 p.m. Whitney Elizabeth Walsh

Mike LeBlanc from Kouchibouguac Park will give a talk about Porcupines Dec. 12 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room

Outing French Fort Cove Nov. 26 1 p.m. east parking lot Dave McLeod

Mark Hambrook, Guest Speaker from Miramichi Salmon Hatchery Nov. 14 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room

Harry Collins, Guest Speaker from MREAC Oct. 3 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room

Mushroom Identification Workshop: Attendees are
encouraged to bring their own mushroom specimens, which should be collected beforehand and stored in paper bags in the fridge clearly labelled "DO NOT EAT"
Oct. 1

10 a.m.

Douglastown Comm. Cen.
Downstairs Seniors Room

Nelson Poirier:
Writer of nature column in Moncton Times

Roland Chiasson Vice President of New Brunswick
Federation of Naturalists will be attending
Sept. 12 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room Dorothy Gordon

Kouchibouguac Sept. 17 ? noon second try Nelson Cloud

Kouchibouguac Sept. 10 noon cancelled Nelson Cloud

Oxbow in Metepenagiag Aug. 23 12:45 Tim Hortons Douglastown Nelson Cloud

Sandpiper - Grande Anse Flat at Johnson´s Mill Aug. 13 13:00 Nelson Cloud

The Canadian Arctic Aug. 8 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room Philippe Riebel

July 11

Slides: birds, flowers, May 11 7 p.m. Sobeys Comm. Room Harry Walker

""""""""""" mushrooms, pretty women April 11 Harry Walker

"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" and one black dog March 14 Harry Walker

Glaciation, Geological Origin and Forest Soils Feb. 21 Jim Saunders + Blair Vessie

Fredericton Naturalists´ Meeting Feb. Fredericton Dorothy Gordon

Trails French Fort Cove Feb. 6 11 a.m. left side of French Fort

Rocks in New Brunswick Jan. 2005 Daisy Hunter + Jean Arnold

Slides "old tree helps new" Dec. 2004 Jim Saunders

Foundation of Nature Club Oct. 2004
Sobeys Comm. Room
Bill Kern

Events in 2006:
Christmas Bird Count Miramichi	Dec. 30			Harry Walker, Pam Watters
Christmas Bird Count in Red Bank	Dec. 16			Dave McLeod Elizabeth Walsh
December Meeting with guest speaker Nelson Poirier Moments with Mother Nature...on film with unique sounds: birds, butterflies, moths, caterpillars, dragonflies, amphibians, reptiles, plants, and lots more.	Dec. 11	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room
Woodlot Management (Walk, bring rubber boots)	Nov. 19	1 p.m.	Bryenton	Shawn Charlebois
November Meeting with guest speaker Gart Bishop a field botanist from Sussex: "What is a Naturalist?" Election of Executives	Nov. 13	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room
October meeting with guest speaker Tony VanBuskirk: "People and the Miramichi Forest - Ice age to 1962"	Oct. 16	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room
Hal Hinds Memorial Nature Walk at the Millbank Nature Trail	Oct.15	1 p.m.	Power Plant	Jim Saunders Dave McLeod Leonel Richard
Trip to Big Bald Mountain	Sep. 17	10a.m.	Wayerton	Nelson Cloud
The Nature Conservancy of Canada invites to a boat trip to a barrier beach in the Tabusintac Nature Preserve	Sep. 2	1 p.m.	Tabusintac	Nelson Cloud
Yggdrasil Field Day (Photosynthesis; Mosses, Lichens and Fungi)	Sept. 9
Sandpiper - Grande Anse Flat at Johnson´s Mill	Aug.11	10a.m.	Tim Hortons	Elizabeth Walsh
NB Botany Club outing to Third Lake, Madawaska County http://www.macbe.com/botanyclub/english/enevents.html	Aug.12			Rick Fournier
NB Botany Club outing to Kennedy Lakes PNA http://www.macbe.com/botanyclub/english/enevents.html	July 15	10 a. m.	directions sent by email	Dave McLeod Jim Saunders
Orchids outing	July 6	5:30 p.m.	directions sent by email	Jim Saunders
Tracy Glynn from the Conservation Council of New Brunswick will be talking about the Acadia Forest. The Conservation Council has a program on conserving the Acadia Forest and she will be discussing more about this program.	June 12	7 p. m.	Sobeys Comm. Room	Elizabeth Walsh
NB Federation of Naturalists Annual General Meeting with outings	June 9,10,11		Memramcook	www.naturenb.ca
New Brunswick Botany Club: Topic: Annual Spring Wildflower Walk Leader: Jim Goltz Location: Bell Forest Nature Preserve, Carleton	May 21	1 p.m.	directions sent by email
Visit to Miramichi Fish Hatchery	May 13	10 a.m.	485, Route 420 South Esk, 5 km west of Miramichi	Nelson Cloud
May meeting. Guest speaker will be Jim Saunders, a member of the Miramichi Naturalists' Club. He will be talking about the wonders of plants and photosynthesis.	May 8	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room	Jim Saunders
Guest speaker is Jim Wilson from the St. John Naturalists' Club. He is also the Membership Secretary for NBFN and is a board member for the New Brunswick Wildlife Trust Fund. Jim is a Naturalist extraordinaire. He has been all over the world birding but will stick to talking about "A Naturalist's Year in New Brunswick". The presentation will talk about various site in New Brunswick good for birding.	April 10	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room	Elizabeth Walsh
Visiting a sugar camp in Allardville. We tour the facilities from tap to table. Operator will show us the process of making Maple Sugar. We will see how the sap is collected and boiled down to make syrup, maple sugar, and other maple treats. The tour will end with a breakfast of Pancakes and Maple Syrup at the Sugar Camp. We will meet at 9:00 at the Tim Horton's Douglastown parking lot.	March 25.	9 a. m.	Tim Horton's Douglastown parking lot.	Elizabeth Walsh
Twigs and Tracks walk. Regional Biologist Tom Pettigrew from DNR will lead a hike in the woods to identify animal tracks and winter twigs.	March 18.	1 p.m.	Wayerton Bridge	Elizabeth Walsh
Guest speaker is Nev Garrity from the Canadian Wildlife Service in Sackville. He is a wildlife technician. His presentation will be about his bird banding surveys that he did this past fall at Amherst Point Bird Sanctuary. He will bring some of the equipment used in banding operations for us to see, like: mist nests, bands, and banding tools. Nelson Cloud of the Miramichi Naturalists' Club also had a chance to work on this project with Nev and Nelson will be sharing some of the wonderful photographs that he took at that time.	March 13	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room	Nelson Cloud
Horse Drawn Sleigh Ride ( $ 8 per person )	March 11	7-11p.m.	please contact Nelson for more information, he talked about pot luck and owls	Nelson Cloud T.: 836 2841
Guest speaker Jim Goltz who works for the Agriculture and Fisheries Department. He is also a member of the New Brunswick Botanical Society and has regular Botanical Rambles appearing in the "NB Naturalists" publication. He will be talking to us about his recent visit to the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.	Feb. 13	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room	Nelson Cloud
Snowshoe outing	Feb. 2006		Millbank
Member´s Meeting	Jan. 9	7 p.m.
Christmas Bird Count	Dec. 27			Harry Walker, Pam Watters
Pot-luck get together at Elizabeth´s house	Dec. 18	2 p.m.	Whitney	Elizabeth Walsh
Mike LeBlanc from Kouchibouguac Park will give a talk about Porcupines	Dec. 12	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room
Outing French Fort Cove	Nov. 26	1 p.m.	east parking lot	Dave McLeod
Mark Hambrook, Guest Speaker from Miramichi Salmon Hatchery	Nov. 14	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room
Harry Collins, Guest Speaker from MREAC	Oct. 3	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room
Mushroom Identification Workshop: Attendees are encouraged to bring their own mushroom specimens, which should be collected beforehand and stored in paper bags in the fridge clearly labelled "DO NOT EAT"	Oct. 1	10 a.m.	Douglastown Comm. Cen. Downstairs Seniors Room	Nelson Poirier: Writer of nature column in Moncton Times
Roland Chiasson Vice President of New Brunswick Federation of Naturalists will be attending	Sept. 12	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room	Dorothy Gordon
Kouchibouguac	Sept. 17 ?	noon	second try	Nelson Cloud
Kouchibouguac	Sept. 10	noon	cancelled	Nelson Cloud
Oxbow in Metepenagiag	Aug. 23	12:45	Tim Hortons Douglastown	Nelson Cloud
Sandpiper - Grande Anse Flat at Johnson´s Mill	Aug. 13	13:00		Nelson Cloud
The Canadian Arctic	Aug. 8	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room	Philippe Riebel
	July 11
Slides: birds, flowers,	May 11	7 p.m.	Sobeys Comm. Room	Harry Walker
""""""""""" mushrooms, pretty women	April 11			Harry Walker
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" and one black dog	March 14			Harry Walker
Glaciation, Geological Origin and Forest Soils	Feb. 21			Jim Saunders + Blair Vessie
Fredericton Naturalists´ Meeting	Feb.		Fredericton	Dorothy Gordon
Trails French Fort Cove	Feb. 6	11 a.m.	left side of French Fort
Rocks in New Brunswick	Jan. 2005			Daisy Hunter + Jean Arnold
Slides "old tree helps new"	Dec. 2004			Jim Saunders
Foundation of Nature Club	Oct. 2004		Sobeys Comm. Room	Bill Kern