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NA Summer 2010 COVER 3.Indd VOLUME 40 | NUMBER 2 | SUMMER 2010 SUGGESTED RETAIL: $7.50 CDN Nature Alberta CELEBRATING OUR NATURAL HERITAGE PAUL TESSIER/COURTESY ONTARIO NATURE feature article Woodland Caribou in Jasper National Park NATURE ALBERTA Now, at last – TWO great opportunities in ONE: 1 Get Nature Alberta in full colour! 2 Help Reduce the use of paper! Switch your subscription from hard copy to the full colour e-version and get even GREATER Say YES I want the e-version! enjoyment of Nature Alberta while and within four weeks of receiving this issue, we will send you a complimentary full colour Nature Alberta REDUCING paper use. e-version of it. Say “Yes” – satisfaction guaranteed! This offer is available to both new and old subscribers. At this time, subscription rates remain the same. If you are not satisfi ed Phone today: (780) 427-8124; or with the e-version, you can simply switch back to hard copy. Email us: [email protected] or If you wish, you can get both hard copy and the full colour e-version for an extra $15 per year. [email protected] Nature Alberta: SUMMER 2010 1 Celebrating our natural heritage Nature Alberta is composed of natural history clubs from across the province. The aims of the Federation are: (a) To encourage among all Albertans, by all means possible, an increase in their knowledge of natural history and understanding of ecological processes; (b) To promote an increase in the exchange of information and views among natural history clubs and societies in Alberta; (c) To foster and assist in the formation of additional natural history clubs Contents and societies in Alberta; (d) To promote the establishment of natural areas and nature reserves, to NATURE ALBERTA VOLUME 40, NUMBER 2, SUMMER 2010 conserve and protect species, communities or other features of interest; (e) To organize, or coordinate symposia, conferences, fi eld meetings, nature camps, research and other activities whether of a similar or Editor’s Page BY DENNIS BARESCO ....................................................................2 dissimilar nature; (f) To provide the naturalists of Alberta with a forum in which questions Alberta Issues in Brief .............................................................................4 relating to the conservation of the natural environment may be discussed, so that united positions can be developed on them, and to Vocabulary, Meaning, & Method BY JUDY FORT BRENNEMAN...............................6 provide the means of translating these positions into appropriate actions. The Dangers of Birding BY PHIL HORCH .........................................................8 BOARD OF DIRECTORS PRESIDENT: Chuck Priestley Nature Alberta News ..............................................................................9 VICE PRESIDENT: Ted Hindmarch SECRETARY: Vacant In Memoriam: Hope Johnson................................................................11 TREASURER: Peichen Gu PAST PRESIDENT: Sandra Foss Up Close Naturally: Spider Silk! BY MARGOT HERVIEUX ..................................12 APPOINTED DIRECTORS: Dennis Baresco, Dawn Dickinson, Jim Gendron, Peichen Gu, Ted Hindmarch, Chuck Priestley, Don Stiles Nature Diary: “New Resident Flickers” BY DEBBIE AND ALAN GODKIN ...............13 ELECTED DIRECTORS: Chrissie Smith (ANPC); Claudia Cameron, (BLN); Scott Jubinville (CFNS); Lu Carbyn, (ENC); Grant Henry (FMFNS); Marty Drut, Close to Home: Nature Photography in Alberta BY JOHN WARDEN ...............14 (GN); Ted Johnson (LLBBS); Lloyd Bennett (LNS); Margot Hervieux (PPN); Tony Blake (RDRN); Iris Davies (VRNS); The Fate of Our Bats BY LYNSEY FRANKS .......................................................18 STAFF: Philip Penner (Exec. Dir.); Christine Brown; Vid Bijelic Canadian Environmental Bill of Rights .................................................21 CORPORATE MEMBER CLUBS Alberta Native Plant Council, Box 52099, Garneau P.O. Edmonton, AB BY DICK DEKKER Woodland Caribou in Jasper National Park ........................22 T6G 2T5 Fun With Birds BY BOB PARSONS ..................................................................26 Buffalo Lake Naturalists, Box 1802, Stettler, AB T0C 2L0 Nature Calgary (CFNS), Box 981, Calgary, AB T2P 2K4 Book Review: New Birds of Canada is User Friendly ........................33 Edmonton Nature Club, Box 1111, Edmonton, AB T5J 2M1 Fort McMurray Field Naturalists Society, 152 Cote Bay, Fort McMurray, AB First Hand: Following Mother Merganser! BY PAUL THIBAULT AND JAN SCOTT ......34 T9H 4R9 Grasslands Naturalists, Box 2491, Medicine Hat, AB T1A 8G8 Wildlife! 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Collett Natural Area Foundation Beaverhill Bird Observatory Lee Nature Sanctuary Society Beaver River Naturalist Club Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory Big Lake Environmental Support Society Purple Martin Conservancy PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY NATURE ALBERTA, BowKan Birders Riverlot 56 Natural Area Society 11759 GROAT ROAD, EDMONTON, AB T5M 3K6 Calgary Bird Banding Society Stewards of Alberta’s Protected Areas PHONE.780.427.8124 FAX.780.422.2663 Cochrane Environmental Action Association [email protected] Committee The Wagner Natural Area Society Crooked Creek Conservancy Society Weaselhead/Glenmore Park SUBSCRIPTION $30.00 PER YEAR; $55 FOR TWO YEARS Crowsnest Conservation Society Preservation Society Edmonton Naturalization Group Wizard Lake Watershed and Lake EDITOR.DENNIS BARESCO Ellis Bird Farm Stewardship Assoc. Fort Saskatchewan Naturalist Society Wood Buffalo Bird Club [email protected] Friends of Blackfoot Society CIRCULATION.TED HINDMARCH LAYOUT.BROKEN ARROW SOLUTIONS INC. PRINTING.PERCY PAGE CENTRE.ISSN 0318-5440 CELEBRATE NATURE ALBERTA THANKS TO THE PROOFREADERS WHO ASSISTED IN PRODUCING THIS ISSUE: IT’S OUR 40TH BIRTHDAY IN 2010!!! ELAINE CATHCART, SANDRA FOSS, MARILYN ROSS, VAL SCHOLEFIELD, JUNE VERMEULEN. MANY THANKS TO THIS ISSUE’S CONTRIBUTORS EDITORIAL DISCLAIMER WANT TO SUBMIT ARTICLES NATURE ALBERTA DEADLINES ARE: The opinions expressed by the authors in this publication do not necessarily refl ect those of the editor and the Federation of Alberta OR PHOTOS? SPRING ISSUE.FEBRUARY 14 Naturalists. The editor reserves the right to edit, reject or withdraw GUIDELINES ARE AVAILABLE ON SUMMER ISSUE.MAY 15 articles submitted. While due care will be taken of all manuscripts, photos THE NATURE ALBERTA WEBSITE: FALL ISSUE.AUGUST 15 or artwork submitted, FAN cannot be held responsible for any loss or WWW.NATUREALBERTA.CA WINTER ISSUE.NOVEMBER 15 damage to such articles. 2 NatureAlberta Editor’s Page BY DENNIS BARESCO LOSING SPECIES that the “agriculture and forestry historians might actually be Although White Nose Syndrome industries are going to take a huge able to identify the individuals (WNS) has not yet been found in hit.” whose actions (or lack of action) exterminated the fi nal population Alberta, it may just be a matter of However, convincing, prodding, of a species. time. WNS has had a devastating pleading and even suing effect on eastern bats in an appear to be necessities to get extremely short time. The article governments motivated. We could WORDS on page 18, “The Fate of our Bats” be forgiven for thinking that On page 6, you will fi nd a by Lynsey Franks, provides details extirpation or extinction is actually somewhat different type of on why we all must take this the secretly hoped-for goal by article than normal: “Vocabulary, disease very seriously and assist in some of those in government. Meaning, & Method.” The power of whatever way we can. Alberta’s Caribou have been, to “language and what we do with it” One of the problems, as Lynsey coin an old expression, “thrown is well appreciated by advertisers, points out, is the struggle “to to the wolves” – with the wolves politicians, speech writers, heritage convince the Federal Government being used as scapegoats in the interpreters and anyone with a of the urgency of the situation.” continuing greedy destruction message to send and a mandate to In the case of bats, you wouldn’t of caribou habitat. There are convince. This article by Judy Fort think that convincing would be fears that Greater Sage-Grouse Brenneman is a good reminder – if necessary, especially considering could be gone within two years not a whole new awareness – of – two years! – if the population the subtle power of words. It is continues to well worth a close reading. plummet, as it has in the past few years. HOPE JOHNSON This year, only 31 While the passing of the renowned males on 9 leks Hope Johnson is sad, she leaves (traditional dancing many people with more than
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