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The Blue Heron Bras d'Or HE LUE ERON TThe Bras B d’Or Stewardship H Society St y ew iet P.O. Box 158, Baddeck, Nova Scotia B0E 1B0 ardship Soc VOLUME 19 JANUARY 2015 NO. I three new articles of interest each From the general to the personal, in Editorial with a quite different focus. The first, this context. I have to get (costly) he last year has been an by Dr. Bruce Hatcher and his Cape lost hearing aids replaced, my Tinteresting one in Nova Scotia. Breton University (CBU) team, on the few remaining teeth looked after, We had a change of government. complex electronic salmon research a cataract removed and glasses In a provincial election the Liberals they are doing in the Bras d’Or Lakes. replaced but I can’t remember the replaced New Democrats; gone after The second derives from the report name of the dentist or the optometrist only one term. The New Economy biologist Minga O’Brien produced I saw last time… (Ivany) Commission Report on Nova at the request of the Stewardship James O’Brien Scotians came out and painted a Society about a meeting at CBU dismal picture of the future of Nova on the development of possible Scotia unless major changes take new forest products: what do these place at all levels. The price of a scientists and engineers understand NOTICE barrel of oil and with it Canada’s about Nova Scotia’s forests and THE ANNUAL GENERAL petro-dollar continues to plummet. forest-dependent wildlife? Do they In Cape Breton, controversy over have any sense of how degraded MEETING OF THE SOCIETY the planned monstrous Never-to-be they are, and the potential impacts WILL BE HELD ON Forgotten Memorial in the Highlands of even greater pressures on them? SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 2015 National Park tended to overshadow The third is quite different. This is AT 10:00 A.M. these issues. And the Province, in a charming story of high romance, particular Cape Breton, had one of AT THE MASONIC HALL daring elopement, mad dashes of IN BADDECK the harshest winters in years. lovers across the frozen Bras d’Or In this issue of the Blue Heron Lakes on sleighs, of angry rejected ALL MEMBERS ARE INVITED besides the usual items, we have suitors with all the trimmings, told TO ATTEND AS WELL AS about and partially by John V. INTERESTED CITIZENS WHO Newlands about his Crammond ARE CONCERNED WITH THE In This Issue Islands ancestors: a made to measure FUTURE STEWARDSHIP OF Page libretto for a romantic nineteenth Editorial 1 century Italian style opera: Rosini, THE BRAS D’OR LAKES. News Items 2 Verdi, where were you when we Ross Ferry Stewardship Society needed you? Report Fall 2014 3 To finish on a less happy theme. This Report From the Bras d'Or Lake is the last issue of the Blue Heron “Our goal Biosphere Reserve for the Fall 2014 3 I will edit. Time is catching up with is to Crammond Island History 5 all that infers in terms of my various faculties. To quote Shakespeare Advancing Woody Biomass Options (from As You Like It) on the subject protect, in Nova Scotia 6 of advancing years conserve and More Salmon Secrets From ……………………………………. the Middle River 9 The last scene of all-- restore the Trans Canada Trail - Bras d'Or Lake "That ends this strange eventful Blueway Water Route 11 history is second childishness Bras d’Or Letter from Interim President Insert Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, Lakes” sans everything". www.brasdorstewardshipsociety.org Striped Bass Population: undermined by wave action and needed replacing. Funds provided NEWS ITEMS: t has been reported that the for this work came from Enterprise Istriped bass population in the Bras Cape Breton Corporation (ECBC) d’Or Lakes has been increasing. and donations through a fund raiser Scientific Work on Middle The reason maybe the warming held in the summer of 2014. and Baddeck Rivers of the water temperatures as a consequence of global warming Railway Closure: allowing this fish to be considered By Chuck Thompson an invasive species. This species he former CN rail track from Port cience work continues will impact on other resident fish THawkesbury to Sydney will no Son Middle River as well as populations as it feeds on local longer operate because there is no Baddeck River. A joint effort aquatic dwellers. Catching striped ‘business case’ to support rail traffic. between Federal Department of bass is popular with recreational There has been much protest about Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) DFO fishermen. the closure of this line which cannot and Nova Scotia Department of support itself given current rail Fisheries (NSDoF) resulted in brood St. Peter’s Canal Hours: numbers. A commission was formed (spawning) stock being collected to save this historic infrastructure. from both rivers. These fish will be hanges in the hours that the St. An unaddressed concern is the fate raised at the Margaree Hatchery Peter’s Canal operates received C of the Grand Narrows rail bridge to be released back into parent some criticism from recreational that no doubt has seen its better stream when they reach parr size. boat owners who found they could As well, the annual dive counts by not get through the St. Peter’s lock days. The looming question is who DFO and UINR are underway in due to new hours of operation. The will be responsible for its moth a yearly attempt to estimate stock greatest impact was early in the balling and oversight. No doubt numbers. Middle River has held up season and in the fall. without any train traffic this ancient well given the poor state of salmon structure is redundant and poses a stocks elsewhere. Upgrades at potentially serious environmental safety (liability) problem. Kidston Island St. Peter’s Marina: Semi-Annual BSS Shoreline Protection: t. Peter’s Marina operated by Sthe St. Peter’s Lion’s Club is Meeting: n December 2014, work was undergoing upgrades to its facilities. Iundertaken to stop the erosion A new foundation is in place under n August 2014, the Society at the west end of Kidston Island the club house and the docking and Iheld its semi-annual meeting. in Baddeck. This required the finger piers are to be upgraded. A presentation was made by Dr. placement of large stones near the Funds to effect these improvements Susanna Fuller, PhD. regarding base of the light house on the shore were accessed through Enterprise the New Economy Commission’s to hopefully stop any further erosion Cape Breton Corporation (ECBC) Report on the social and economic of the shore front. Increasingly, prior to its being consumed by issues facing Nova Scotia. Fuller there seems to be situations driven the Atlantic Canada Opportunities was a commission member traveling by wind, rain and wave power that Agency (ACOA). throughout the province as the are an impact on shorelines in the Commission listened to public Bras d’Or Lakes. Recently, a the Upgrades at the concerns about Nova Scotia’s CBC radio interview featured local economy and future. The New geologist, Fred Baechler, discussing Bras d’Or Yacht Club: Economy Commission’s report can the merits of protecting land by addeck’s Bras d’Or Yacht Club be accessed at www.onens.ca. the placement of armor stone Bhad its waterfront upgraded with on eroding shorefronts. Baechler a very well constructed new wharf stated that proper engineering that should withstand the powers is a critical component of such of Mother Nature. The wharf was remediation. completely rebuilt starting in late July 2014 and finished up in August 2014. This was a timely upgrade as the old structure had been Page 2 www.brasdorstewardshipsociety.org followed by a Family Supper. We watershed. All Board members Ross Ferry partnered with Clean Nova Scotia are volunteers who give their Stewardship and the Baddeck Tim Horton’s time to oversee the activities of and combined the Park Clean-up the association and to work on Society Report with a road clean-up. Clean Nova projects. We meet 9 times a year Fall 2014 Scotia provided us with garbage at community halls throughout the by Terri Shubrook and recycling bags. Tim Horton’s watershed! All of our meetings are provided Tim Bits and Hot Chocolate. he Ross Ferry Marine Park open to the public. The weather did not cooperate but is located on the scenic Bras T those few that showed up got the job Here are some highlights of our d’Or Lake in Cape Breton, Nova done. Trish Aker and Joella Foulds work over the past year. Scotia. The park is on the site of entertained us while we ate chili www.blbra.ca the ferry which operated for many and visited. years between Ross Ferry and Big Education Resource Project: The Harbour, across the Great Bras d’Or Our big project this year was to do Education Resource Committee is Channel. repairs to the Wharf. We received developing a resource document funding from ECBC – now ACOA – The Ross Ferry Stewardship Society for Grade 4 Science teachers (and with the understanding that we were is a volunteer based community other leaders/parents) to help to contribute 25% of the costs. We organization, formed in 2004. It children learn about, and connect hired a Contractor and proceeded was formed with the intention of with, the natural environment to raise our portion of the funds. improving the site and to provide around them. The resource is In addition to our Canada Day and continued access to the Bras focused on the Geology and Labour Day events we held a Pub d’Or.
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