Fragile Inheritance is a project being conducted by a local group from Oxford Station, Ontario in celebration of International Year of Biodiversity in 2010, in partnership with the Canadian Museum of Nature. You can read more about this interesting project at  www.fragileinheritance.org.

Also of interest is Aleta Karstad’s painting a day blog  including one painting done on MVFN’s first ever bioblitz at the Bell Property in September, 2009 – at www.karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/2009/09/vernal-pool-resting.html#links    This painting of ferns in a vernal pool, done during the bioblitz, was apparently part of a pilot project to get ready for her ‘painting a day’ project which is ongoing (since March 2010) to help fund the ’30 Years Later Expedition’ for the International Year of Biodiversity.

Aleta Karstads work provides spectacular examples of documenting with words and illustrations in ’nature notebooks’ what we see in nature.

Filed under: Nature Notebook, News, Other News by Pauline Donaldson May 14th, 2010
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MVFN 2010 Spring/Summer/Fall Outdoor Programme Saturday, May 29 – Annual Spring Nature Walk Saturday, June 19 – A Field Day-Bugs at Big Creek Saturday, July 17 -Geology-Lanark County Rocks! *August 14 or 15 (tba) – CANCELLED Sep 25 or 26 (tba) – Annual Autumn Nature Walk and the canoe/kayak outings . . . June 12 [...]

Filed under: Current Programme, Outings, Upcoming Events by Pauline Donaldson May 13th, 2010
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Annual Spring Walk – Webber Woods of Wolf Grove in the Spring Saturday, May 29, 2010 —— 10:00 a.m. Explore nature on the Nature Conservancy of Canada’s newest preserve— in Wolf Grove near Union Hall Did you miss our winter walk in the Webber Woods in Wolf Grove? Did you enjoy the winter walk and [...]

Filed under: Current Programme, Outings by Pauline Donaldson May 12th, 2010
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MVFN Winter Walk on Webber Property in Wolf Grove by Steve Miller with photos by Cathy Keddy On Sunday, February 7, 2010 an enthusiastic group of hikers gathered at the end of Ramsay Concession 4B, about 3 km east of Union Hall for the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists’ (MVFN) winter walk on the Nature Conservancy [...]

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Read it here: April 2010 Whip-poor-will

Filed under: Publications, Whip-poor-will - The Hummingbird by Pauline Donaldson May 8th, 2010
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