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CBA/ABC Bulletin 7(2) ISSN 0008-3046 THE CANADIAN BOTANICAL ASSOCIATION BULLETIN LASSOCIATION BOTANIQUE DU CANADA April 1974 Volume 7 Number 2 Waterloo THE 1974 ANNUAL MEETING AT TEMPE, ARIZONA OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION-CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Arrangements for this meeting are now well Members are reminded that nominations for the advanced and the programme is nearly complete. following officers of the CBA/ABC are required:- Eight symposia are planned on the following President topics: Vice-President Teaching with fungi Secretary Secondary Metabolites 3 Directors Wide ranging species A circular letter was sent to all our members Evolution of flagella recently. Your cooperation in submitting Population dynamics nominations is requested. Co-evolution symbiontsof parasites and RESOLUTIONS to be presented at the Annual Evolution of Gymnosperms Meetings A copy of the completed progra mme will be included with this Bulletin. Abstracts of Be it resolved that in all future Northern papers being presented by members of the CBA/ABC Development contracts supported by the Federal are printed in this issue of the Bulletin. Government (on Crown Land), specifically those It is hoped that as many of our members as involving construction and associated possible will attend this meeting despite the disturbance of the terraine, provision be made "energy crisis". Efforts are being made to either before or during construction, for the arrange group flights to Tempe for those who collection and documentation by qualified wish to use them and a note on this is included biologists of any naturally preserved biological elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin. The material discovered on the construction sites. meeting promises to be an outstanding one with This would in particular apply to fossil or many well known participants from other semi-fossil deposits valuable in palynological societies in North America. Add to this the work. exotic venue and we have the ingredients for Signed: - Dr. J.H. McAndrews success - so please plan to join us at Tempe: Dr. C.J. Marchant Dr. J.R. Maze Dr. R.L. Taylor GROUP FLIGHTS TO TEMPE Anyone interested in group flights from Ottawa, Toronto or Vancouver to the joint CBA/ABS WILL YOU HELP? The request from the meetings at Tempe in June should send their name Committee on Rare and Endangered Species in our and the dates of their planned/desired travel flora (see January 1974 Bulletin) has met with to: only a modest response as yet. We urgently need the assistance of members of the association if J.C. Ritchie, this worthwhile project is to be successful. If Chairman, Division of Life Sciences, you have any information on species of plants Scarborough College, which are becoming increasingly rare in your 1265 Military Trail, area, or which are endangered or perhaps WEST HILL, Ontario. extinct, please get in touch with a member of M1C 1A4. the committee. For people who prefer to supply information on standardized forms, these are N.R.C. GRANT SELECTION COMMITTEES available from members of the committee or from Members are invited to make recommendations Dr. J.K. Morton, Dept. of Biology, University of for membership of the following National Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1 Research Council grant selection committees:- Cell Biology, Plant Biology, Population Biology. OH! FOR THE DAYS OF THE PONY EXPRESS! Recommendations should be sent to Dr. Taylor A. A sufficient number of members sent us Steeves, Dept. of Biology, University of information on the length of time it took for Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. the Post Office to deliver The Bulletin. We now 1 have a pretty good picture of the efficiency of E.Physiology that organization in handling this type of mail. F.Ecosystem Analysis Toronto 7 days II. Management: A.Forestry Ottawa 10 days B.Shellfisheries Quebec 18 days C.Finfisheries St.Johns,Nfd 16 days D.Agriculture Edmonton 18 days III. Conflicts: A.Natural vs. Social Vancouver 30 days Values B.Methods for Resolution Clearly the Canadian Post Office does not of Conflicts subscribe to the motto of its counterpart south of the border "Neither snow nor rain nor heat All papers presented at the Symposium will be nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the published in the proceedings. swift completion of their appointed rounds": For more information write to:- (Motto over General Post Office in New York) - Dr. Gerald E. Walsh may be it has been too hot in Canada recently: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency The delays experienced with the January issue Gulf Breeze Environmental Research are not exceptional. We have been aware for Laboratory some time that all was not well but we did not Gulf Breeze, Florida 32561 have adequate data to support such an opinion. The current issue of the Bulletin will probably XII INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS - LENINGRAD- be sent to several provinces by first class mail I975 in view of the importance of early delivery of Group Charter Flight arrangements are being this issue. This will add considerably to our explored for the Association. Any member who is expenses and it is unlikely that it can become interested in taking part in such a travel plan normal practice. should write to: J.C. Ritchie Chairman, Division of Life Sciences ECOLOGICAL RESERVES Scarborough College, During the final year of funding for the 1265 Military Trail, West Hill, Ontario Terrestrial Conservation Section of the Please indicate whether or not you plan to International Biological Programme (IBP-CT), a take part in the post-Congress excursions. contract has been awarded by IBP-CT to a C.B.A. The tentative dates for the Congress are member, Dr. Everett B. Peterson, for the July 3 - 10. purpose of promoting the concept of ecological reserves. The broad objective is to obtain long-term financial support for the continued THE UNESCO PROGRAM ON MAN AND THE BIOSPHERE (MAB) inventory and check-sheeting of proposed IN CANADA. ecological reserve sites. An equally important Development of the MAB Program since the requirement is to find a permanent report in the Bulletin of July 1973 has been administrative "home" for a program that would rather slow but progress can be reported. provide for the management and use of 1. The Working Group for developing the established ecological reserves. framework for Sub-Program 1: Those members of C.B.A. who have been active how to achieve a desirable pattern of human in IBP-CT over the past few years will be fully settlement, land use and environmental aware of the difficulties facing further quality in the circumstances of increasing development of a national ecological rese rv es population, urbanization and industrializa- system. To assist in the task before us, any tion, particularly in the Great Lakes-St. interested C.B.A. members are urged to contact: Lawrence lowlands; Everett B. Peterson, Western Ecological Se rv ices has been formed and it is expected that the Ltd., 211 - 11 Fairway Drive, Edmonton, T6J 3S6, report from this Working Group will be ready for Telephone (403) 434-4105. Your suggestions are distribution in early summer. Later this year a particularly invited on approaches that you National Workshop will be organized for think should be pursued in the search for more discussing the framework and to further define permanent financial and administrative support the objectives to be met in this Sub-Program. of a national system of ecological reserves. 2. Similarly the Working Group on Sub- Program 2: INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON THE BIOLOGY AND how to achieve maximum benefit and avoid MANAGEMENT OF MANGROVES adverse effects on human social structures, Because of the increasing amount of research wildlife, soil and water quality, in an age on and utilization of mangroves throughout the of increasingly intensive agricultural and tropics, a symposium has been organized to bring forestry management practices (including together the interested people. The symposium fertilizer and pesticide use and waste is designed to report on basic aspects of disposal) - the regional focus to be on areas mangrove biology and utilization of mangrove of the most significant productivity; areas by man and to provide a forum in which is expected to have a report circulated during conflicts in use of mangroves can be considered. the summer with the objective of a National The Symposium will be held at the East-West Workshop in the fall. Centre in Honolulu, Hawaii on October 8-11, 3. Because of the difficulties associated 1974. Program outline: with the MAB Program to this date, development I. Biology: A.General Aspects of the other two Sub-Programs will not commence B.Biogeography before the latter part of this year. C.Geology and Soils 4. Questions of funding for MAB research are D.Morphology and continually being asked. It should be clearly Taxonomy understood that there are no funds earmarked 2 "MAB". It is expected that most MAB projects 7. Expert panel on educational activities under will be funded through the already existing the Man and Biosphere Programme (MAB). channels. Any projects designated as "MAB", Paris, 5-8 December, 1972. will receive help to obtain funding if this 8. Expert panel on Project 6: Impact of human proves necessary. activities on mountain ecosystems. Salzburg, 5. It is quite likely that some projects 29 January - 4 February 1973 will be too big, or will be outside the mandate 9. Expert panel on Project 13: Perception of of any one agency, to obtain funding through the environmental quality. Paris, 26-29 March, usual channels. Under these circumstances it is 1973. expected that preliminary development of such a 10. International Co-ordinating Council of the project will be done through the feasibility Programme on Man and the Biosphere. Second studies grants, and operational funding through session.
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