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Bruce Peninsula Orchid Festival – June 1 – 2, 2007

The Bruce Peninsula is renowned for its diversity of wild, native orchids. An astonishing 44 orchid species occur on ‘the Bruce’, ranging from abundant Yellow Lady’s Slippers to the endangered Eastern Prairie White-fringed Orchid. For a small area, the Bruce Peninsula has one of the greatest varieties of natural orchids in North America. The  Bruce

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The 108TH Audubon Christmas Bird Count and The 31ST Hanover-Walkerton Count**

By Dorothy Kings The Saugeen Field Naturalists Club sponsors the count known officially as the Hanover-Walkerton Count. The first Christmas bird count, started by Frank Chapman along with 27 other conservationists, was a way of protesting the traditional bird shoot. Instead of hunting birds they counted them, on Christmas Day, 1900. Thus, a new tradition

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Kinghurst Forest Area of Natural and Scientific Interest

By Clarke Birchard July 2006 Areas of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSIs) are areas of land and water containing natural landscapes or features that have been identified by the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources as having provincially or regionally significant values related to protection, natural heritage appreciation, scientific study or education. There are over 150

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eBird

eBird, a project developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, provides a simple way for you to keep track of the birds you see anywhere in North America. You can retrieve information on your bird observations, from your backyard to your neighbourhood to your favourite bird-watching locations, at any time

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