The Wildbird General Store

Title: Book Launch
Location: Greenwoods Books (7925 – 104 St)
Description: Herb Hammond will be presenting from his new book, “Maintaining Whole Systems On Earth’s Crown: EcoSystem-based Conservation Planning for the Boreal Forest”.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-04-07
Notes: (from the CPAWS promo material):

Join CPAWS Northern Alberta <http://www.cpawsnab.org> & Greenwoods’ Bookshoppe <http://www.greenwoods.com/> for the launch of Herb Hammond’s latest book “Maintaining Whole Systems On Earth’s Crown: EcoSystem-based Conservation Planning for the Boreal Forest”. The evening will include a visually beautiful and informative slideshow presentation with the author, Herb Hammond, forest ecologist, pioneer of ecosystem-based conservation planning and author of the 1992 award-winning book, Seeing the Forest Among the Trees.
Learn about the philosophy, principles and practice of ecosystem-based conservation planning (EBCP) as both a means to achieving ecologically responsible land management and as a broader approach to tackling the many environmental challenges facing us today.
Herb illustrates clearly how healthy societies are rooted in healthy ecosystems and provides a blueprint that combines scientific knowledge, Indigenous knowledge, and intuition to maintain and restore the ecosystems that sustain all life.
Maintaining Whole Systems on Earth’s Crown provides solutions to the current inappropriate and unsustainable exploitation of resources, a vital component in the fight to halt global warming.
For more information contact CPAWS at 780-432-0967

Title: FAN AGM Awards Dinner
Location: Chateau Louis Hotel
Description: Dr. Lu Carbyn will be giving a talk entitled “The Fall and Rise of Bison in Wood Buffalo National Park: A historical and scientific perspective.”
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-04-04
Notes: Dinner at 6:30, Cash bar opens at 6:00. Cost is $37.50 per person. RSVP by March 27 to Christine Brown at christineb@fanweb.ca or 780-427-8124.

Title: Butterfly Presentation
Location: Stanley Milner Library
Description: This event is a showing of the NFB documentary, “Four Wings and a Prayer,” about the Monarch butterfly. This will be a perfect warm-up event for this summer’s butterfly counts.
Start Time: 14:00
Date: 2009-05-10
End Time: 15:30

Notes: From the film’s website (http://www.primitive.net/fourwings.html):

“Four Wings and a Prayer is a visually rich and exciting feature-length documentary about one of the world’s most beautiful and mysterious creatures, the Monarch butterfly.

Nowhere in nature is there a more powerful mix of scientific marvel, awesome beauty, and epic struggle for survival. This documentary is a journey into the Monarch’s secret and fascinating world. We visit the spectacular locations it calls home, meet its friends and enemies (including humans in both camps), and fly with it on one of the most inspiring migratory odysseys imaginable.”

Highlights were Rough-legged Hawk & Northern Shrike.  Bluebirds & Pileated Woodpecker in area after survey. Click on Hawk Survey’s above for full results.

Title: Earth Hour
Location: Worldwide
Description: Earth Hour began in Sydney in 2007, when 2.2 million homes and businesses switched off their lights for one hour. In 2008 the message had grown into a global sustainability movement, with 50 million people switching off their lights.
We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.
Join us on Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm to VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour.
Start Time: 20:30
Date: 2009-03-28
End Time: 21:30

Link: www.earthhour.org