July 2016 Issue 133 - Island Nature Trust

July 2016
Issue 133
Island Nature Trust Quarterly
Dedicated to the protection of Natural Areas on Prince Edward Island since 1979
Inside this issue:
Summer: It’s Crazy Season at INT!
Supporter Profile: Errol
Laughlin: A Conservation
Legacy
2
Our Lands: Beaches,
Dunes, and Coastal
Wetlands
3
The 2016 International
Piping Plover Census
4
INT Photo Contest
4
Volunteer Profile: Rustaret
Farm
5
A Matter of Timing
6
INT Fundraising Dinner
Donors 2016
7
One of the conundrums of developing a
career out of a love of the outdoors is that
you are absolutely flat-out crazy busy with
work during the peak camping / hiking /
water season! So it is with all of us at Island Nature Trust. We are a little late
getting this quarterly newsletter out because the international piping plover census has just ended, the farmland birds project is well underway, some but not all
trees and shrubs are planted in our natural areas and we still have much, much
more to do before the end of September
rolls around!
This year we’ve received some additional
help to resource our efforts, in particular
stewardship of our natural areas. The
partnership with the PEI Liquor Control
Commission announced in our last newsletter has brought in close to $15,340. We
are getting out to our natural areas more
often and are more active on the land because of this financial boost. Thank-you
LCC for supporting our boots-on-theground conservation!
We are fortunate to have some fantastic
staff on this summer and I hope you might
meet up with some of them at a beach or
in a farm field over the next couple of
months. The “About Us” section of our
website gives you a brief introduction to
each one and our Facebook page has fre-
Our colleague, Mark Arsenault, beside a very large
serviceberry tree on our Courtin Island property.
quent updates on active species-at-risk
and land management projects. Also, I
have a very long list of properties to visit
over the coming months and would love
some company so if you are up for walking
some natural areas, let me know! We
have the best office environment anyone
could ask for. Enjoy this all too fleeting
Island summer outdoors!
- Megan Harris, Executive Director
Issue 133, Page 2
July 2016
Supporter Profile
Errol Laughlin: A Conservation Legacy
The Laughlin family know a thing or two about land conservation! Over the years, their ties to Island Nature Trust have remained strong. Our long-serving executive assistant Barb McDonald is a Laughlin, her sister Diane Griffin is a past executive
director along with her sister-in-law Jackie Waddell. Two parcels of land have been donated to Island Nature Trust by Laughlins and protected as natural areas – one by Errol in Sherbrooke and another by Edward in Kildare. And Laughlins have generously supported fundraising initiatives of Island Nature Trust since our inception. Much of this support and respect for the
land originated with Errol Laughlin, father and brother, farmer, fisher and hunter.
Errol was born in New Annan in 1922 and operated a dairy farm in Traveller’s Rest with his wife Margaret for much of his
life. Like many of his generation, he was active outdoors. Pastimes like fishing and hunting were both a recreational outlet
and a way of supplementing food for the table. For many years, Errol harvested oysters from his lease at Bentick Cove in
Malpeque Bay and in winter, smelts from his smelt shack at Beaton’s Shore. When he retired from farming, he filled the extra time with goose hunting in the autumn. That wild food bounty often ended up on the menu of his friends and extended
family as well as his own eight children.
Errol owned the salt marsh and shoreline adjacent to the shallow waters of his oyster lease and recognized the importance
of this special habitat for migrating shorebirds and waterfowl. He did not allow hunting there, so that migratory species
could rest and feed uninterrupted, refuelling energy reserves for their long trips south. Some birds that frequent this natural
area include Black Duck, Canada Goose, Willet and Black-bellied Plover among many others.
Errol generously bequeathed that precious salt marsh habitat to Island Nature Trust; upon his death in 2012 it passed into
our ownership. We are so appreciative of the vision Errol showed in recognizing the ecological value of his land and passing
on that knowledge to his children. Because of that, his land is now protected and named the Malpeque Bay Salt Marsh Natural Area.
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
- Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965)
Issue 133, Page 3
July 2016
Our Lands
Beaches, Dunes and Coastal Wetlands
On PEI, we are fortunate to be surrounded by
a beautiful coastline. The beaches, dunes, and
wetlands that comprise our coast play key
roles in our recreation, economy, culture and
island ecology. At INT, we protect many kilometres of PEI’s coast.
A view of the pond at our Deroche
Pond property
A view of the shore at our Foley’s
Pond property in Central Kildare
The INT-owned Perret McKinnon Natural Area
in Cable Head East offers incredible views of
PEI’s north shore. The property also includes
a rare coastal raised bog. Raised bogs form
over long periods of time. Acidic and anaerobic conditions make it impossible for plant
materials to completely decompose, forming
a thick layer of peat and, eventually, allowing
Sphagnum moss and other bog species to establish. Over time, a raised dome forms giving
the raised bog its name. Raised bogs are important carbon sinks, helping to control
greenhouse gases.
Our property at Foley’s Pond fronts on the
Gulf of St. Lawrence, with a narrow beach and
low bank, and also borders a brackish pond. It
is home to a rare plant species, small eyebright (Euphrasia randii), and many species of
trees and shrubs.
Our Deroche Pond and Nail Pond properties
feature extensive barachois ponds – coastal
ponds separated from the ocean by a sand
dune system or barrier beach. Deroche Pond
has traditionally been used for hunting, fishing, trapping, canoeing, berry-picking, swimming and sunbathing. The property supports
a tremendous amount of plant and animal
life, including: shorebirds that feed and roost
on the open beach, marram grass and other
dune vegetation that colonize and stabilize
the sand dunes, songbirds that nest among
alders and wild rose, and PEI’s only confirmed
pair of nesting common loons.
Marram grass stabilizes sand
dunes and also makes these
beautiful patterns in the sand.
View of PEI’s north shore from the
Perret McKinnon Natural Area
These are truly special places that offer Islanders so much! We are happy to protect
these lands so that future generations may
enjoy them as well!
A view from both sides of the dune
from our property in Nail Pond
A green frog spotted in the water
at Deroche Pond
Issue 133, Page 4
July 2016
Featured Contributor
Leanne Tol is INT’s Farmland Birds Program Coordinator. Leanne just recently completed a Master of Science
degree in Zoology from Cape
Town University, South Africa,
where she studied the endangered African penguin. You can contact Leanne at
[email protected]
Partnerships
The 2016 International Piping
Plover Census
Megan Harris, Executive Director
[email protected]
Barb McDonald, Executive Assistant
[email protected]
Shannon Mader, Species-at-Risk Coordinator
(On maternity leave until May 2017)
Julie-Lynn Zahavich, Stewardship Coordinator,
Acting Species-at-Risk Coordinator
[email protected]
Chelsey Folsom, Field Technician
[email protected]
Nicole Murtagh, Field Technician
INT Photo Contest
Wish you could see more pictures of what our
natural areas look like? So do we!
Our website will soon have a map of our property locations but we need your help with the visuals. And so, we are excited to announce our
first Annual Natural Areas Photography Contest.
From now until February 2017, we challenge
you to wow us with your photos of INT properties. We will choose a winning entry from each
of our main ecosystems: forest, salt marsh, sand
dune, freshwater marsh, offshore island and
peatland. Winners will receive recognition on
our webpage and some serious new bling (top
secret, we’re working on it as we speak). For a
list of locations for our natural areas, please
contact us at Ravenwood.
Every June, over a 9-day period, stewardship groups across
the piping plovers’ North American breeding range conduct
an annual census. During these 9 days, INT staff and volunteers, under the direction of the Canadian Wildlife Service,
survey recently-occupied nesting beaches to capture a
snapshot of the Island plover population. Every 5 years, an
International Piping Plover Census takes place. During international census years we survey all historic nesting
beaches – 70 in total on the Island – over a 2-week period.
2016 was an International Piping Plover Census year. An
international census is a big undertaking for our small program staff, so we reached out to our conservation partners
for assistance. This year we would like to thank our colleagues at Prince Edward Island National Park for surveying
a couple of provincial beaches that are adjacent to National
Park boundaries, and the PEI Forests, Fish and Wildlife Division and Five Star Shellfish Inc. for helping us access a couple of remote sites. In addition, we would like to thank our
volunteers that helped us survey beaches for the census
and submitted beach observations during our busy census
period.
Our preliminary data suggests that the PEI piping plover
population is approximately 60 individuals. In 2015, during
our annual census, we counted 54 individuals.
Issue 133, Page 5
July 2016
Volunteer Profile
Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum of Rustaret Farm have been involved with Island Nature Trust’s Farmland Birds project since last year, helping to protect Bobolink and Barn Swallow habitat.
As former professors at St. Thomas and the University of New Brunswick with
some farming background, and after having researched the history of PEI, they
purchased an old farm property on the Island in 2010 as part of their retirement plan—one that would keep them busy and active. Rustaret Farm in
Shamrock was developed as a viable grass-based beef and sheep operation
with the goal of “developing a farm that combines nature conservancy, aesthetic beauty, and livestock breed diversity” recalls Rusty.
Rustaret Farm
Rusty and Margaret have always been interested in the outdoors and wildlife,
through both their parents’ interests and their own discoveries. “You see more
if you know what to look for—if you can distinguish one kind of tree or bird or
flower from another, and know a bit about the habitat and habits of each.”
Wildlife Friendly Farm
They chose the land for Rustaret Farm based on the diversity of habitat for
wildlife, with field, woodland, stream and wetland all present on the acreage.
Upon moving there, however, they noticed a distinct lack of diversity in birds and other species.
They have since worked hard to accommodate wildlife on the farm, and noticed a great improvement in abundance and
species present over the past six years. By building ponds, establishing permanent pasture for grazing and hay, not using
chemicals, installing nesting structures for Tree and Barn Swallows, and leaving some standing deadwood in their woodlands as nesting sites for birds, they have encouraged great habitat for wildlife. They also planted some heritage apple
trees and preserved older ones. “Apple trees provide great bird habitat, as well as beauty and food for humans, too.”
Bobolinks were discovered on their property last year, and subsequently they have changed their hay cutting to work with
the Bobolink nesting period. They had already been leaving the cutting of some fields late for the growing population of
Savannah Sparrows.
Rusty and Margaret say they are still working to understand how the farm’s natural systems work, but their goal is “to tailor agriculture to work with these systems as much as possible in order to develop low-input strategies for producing good
quality food.”
They say that it is easy to make a list of the practical benefits of having specific bird species on the farm, such as the control of insect populations, but “listening to the Bobolinks and watching the Swallows’ acrobatics in the air draws a person
into something special that no list can capture.”
Ultimately, they don’t think that developing farm practices to provide wildlife habitat means that there is no gain, even when it is
purely economical. “And the attentiveness that is required to effectively develop ways to enhance wildlife diversity likely makes a
person a better farmer as well—at many levels.”
Thank you, Margaret and Rusty, for
all you do to protect grassland
birds on PEI!
Issue 133, Page 6
July 2016
Island Nature Trust Projects
Male bobolinks
A Matter of Timing
Contributed by: Leanne Tol
Barn swallow at nest
As daylight hours and temperatures increase each spring, leaves emerge on plants, the insects that feed on those
leaves hatch out, and birds that depend on these insects for survival return from their southern wintering grounds to
breed. For millennia these events have been synchronized.
How is this delicate cycle being affected by our changing climate?
Research is showing that there may be a mismatch in timing between spring arrival and nesting, and peak food availability. Spring leaf out is happening several weeks earlier on average than it once did. Earlier spring leaf-out results in an
earlier peak abundance of prey insects. Migratory birds arriving from their wintering grounds must be able to adjust
their arrival and laying dates to correspond with peak insect abundance; if they do not it could lead to breeding failure.
An analysis of Henry David Thoreau’s field notes from Massachusetts and a comparison of his mid-19th century natural
history dates with today’s values suggest that leaf-out for woody plants is now 18 days earlier while the arrival of
spring songbirds is only 4 days earlier on average1.
The value of insect-eating birds to people working on the land and to the greater environment is huge and reinforces
the importance of understanding the reasons why they are in trouble. Their demise is linked to our own!
Island Nature Trust is working together with landowners to gather dates each season for Barn Swallow and Bobolink
“firsts” (e.g. first sighting, first sign of young, first sign of flying insects). These two songbirds are insectivores – one eats
insects on the fly while the other consumes them on the ground in grasslands. The data collected could give us an idea
of any trends that are occurring over the long-term on PEI, which could help to better understand the causes behind
these threatened birds’ population declines. We are also continuing to work with Islanders to improve nesting habitat
for these birds and to get a better idea of nesting distribution across PEI.
The Farmland Birds Project is funded this year by the Prince Edward Island Wildlife Conservation Fund. Many volunteers, including landowners and farmers, are already involved this season by reporting sightings, recording observations, and preserving and providing nesting habitat.
Please report sightings of Barn Swallow or Bobolink to Island Nature Trust. To get involved or find out more about this
project, visit www.islandnaturetrust.ca or contact Leanne Tol ([email protected] or 902-892-7513).
1
Primack RB, Gallinat AS, 2016. Spring budburst in a changing climate. American Scientist. Volume 104 (March – April 2016), pp 102
-109.
Issue 133, Page 7
July 2016
INT Fundraising Dinner Donors 2016
“North Wiltshire” Original Watercolour
Night at the Delta
Fine Art Print by Roger Kakepetum & Humpback Whale Original Watercolour
Hudsonian Godwit, Great Blue Heron, Passenger Pigeon &Trumpeter Swan Carvings
Apples in Basket Original Acrylic by Joan Thompson
Birdseye Maple Clock
“Greenwich Boardwalk, 2015"
Lunch with Leader of the Green Party
“Lobster Party” Original Acrylic by Arlene Rice
Two Nights at Holman Grand
“North Shore” Original Watercolour
3 - Wooden Santas
“On the Move Red Fox” Ltd. Ed. Repro.
“Reflection of PEI” Mixed Media
Night at Barachois Inn
Originial Acrylic by Amanda Gallant-Richard
Common Terns Photograph
Original Acrylic
“Winter Trail” Original Acrylic
Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer, Pottery Cookie Jar, Large Caboose Lamp,
Small Interior Caboose Lamp, Bird Bath & Pole, Mi’Kmaq Basket
“Late Summer Marsh” Original Acrylic
“Near Eldon” Original Watercolour
4 Bottles of Maple Syrup & Horseshoe Wine Holder
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Avonlea Pan
Family Plaque
2 Cases of Honey
Bucket of Honey & 3 Beeswax Candles
Dinner for Six, Chef Emily Wells
Rust Check at Charlottetown Rust Check
Necklace & Earrings by Barbara Nymark
Goodie Basket
Wooden Bench, 2 Planters, Bird House & Bird Feeder
Bag of Bird Seed
8 - One Gallon Trees
Bonshaw Nature Tour
Bonshaw Hills
Golf Shirt & Sunice Jacket
Brown-headed Cowbird & Common Yellowthroat Photos, & 2 Nature of PEI Books,
French River Photo & Warren’s Pond, Cherry Hill Photo
Baby Blanket by Barbara E. Henry
2 - Two Nights Camping
Kayak Tour for Two
2 Sets of Fishing Licenses
Wheeled Pepsi Cooler & Wheeled Coleman Cooler with Picnic Set
Family Season’s Pass & One Night in oTENTik
Precious Memories Box
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2 - Avian Watercolours
Box of Tea
Sally Blake Hooff
Delta Prince Edward
Pat & Cathy Chan
Dave Broderick
Anonymous
Melanie McCarthy
Mel Gallant
Peter Bevan-Baker
Details Past & Present
Holman Grand Hotel
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Anonymous
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Patrick Crawford & Donna Giberson
Patrick Crawford & Donna Giberson
Mel Giddings
Richard Vickerson
Jackie Waddell
Rossignol Winery
Paderno
Charlottetown Home Hardware
Island Gold Honey
Bristol Berry Farm
The Mill Restaurant
Greg Mader
Red Sand Jewelery
Cardigan Farmer’s Market
David Murphy
Cardigan Feed Service
Greening Spaces Program
Diane Griffin & Fiep de Bie
Institute of Island Studies
Diane Griffin
Shirley Gallant
Shirley Gallant
Flinder’s Weavery
PEI Provincial Parks
Outside Expeditions
Forests, Fish & Wildlife
Dr. Charles Trainor
PEI National Park
John Somers
Confederation Centre of the Arts
David Schneider
Anonymous
Issue 133, Page 8
July 2016
INT Fundraising Dinner Donors 2016
3 - Ten Pounds of Mussels
Ten Pounds of Blueberries
Gift Package
500 Litres of Home Heating Fuel
Cows Basket
2 Green Fees & 2 Golf Carts
2 Green Fees
Golf Shirt
“Best Friends” Ducks Unlimited Ltd. Ed. Repro.
Unique Bird House
$100 Gift Certificate
Tin Sunflower Garden Ornament
“Brackley Dunes” Photograph & 2 PEI Landscape & Light Books
Hand Knit Shawl & Scarf by Lynne Douglas
Birdseye Maple Clock
Island Clock & Pen Holder
2 - Wall Hangings
Cardinal Cake Plate, Cardinal Coasters & Vanity Soap & Towel Holder
Wind Chimes by Island Winds
Sugar Maple & Padauk Serving Dish
Writing of a Will
$150.00 Gift Certificate
Woven Blanket by Lyette Sansoucy
New Holland Remote Control Tractor
Canine Gift Basket
2 - Pet Check Ups
Gotz Doll & Accessories
10 - Island Magazines, Mini Meachams Atlas, Callbecks’s of Bedeque:
A Century of Island Enterprise, Jubilee Cookbook & Charlottetown: A History
2 - Pottery Beer Glasses
2 - Pottery Mugs
Sand Castle Candle by Ben Smith
Hand Made Quilt by Ruth Aquilani
2 - Theatre Tickets
$25.00 Gift Certificate
3 - Exotic Hummingbirds
Solitary Sandpiper, Bald Eagle & Herring Gull Carvings
“Lowtide Seashells” Original Watercolour
Nature Pendant
PEI Salmon Association Shirt
Felted Wool Scarf by Louise Lorti & Elaine Schuller
Pin Cherry & Mountain Ash Pens by Sid Watts
$50 Gift Card for Pilot House
Chaleur Extreme Warmth Mitts & PEI Mussel Shirt
$50 Gift Certificate
2 Tickets for Alfie Zappacosta, May 4th
NCC Package
$50 in Market Money
Canada Goose Intarsia
PEI Mussel King
Paul Gallant
Liquid Gold
Kenmac Energy
Scott Linkletter
Belvedere Golf Course
Green Gables/Anderson’s Creek
Tony Reddin & Marion Copleston
Gerry & Kathy Laughlin
Dario Zannier
Jewell’s Country Market
Willowbend Studio
John Sylvester
Sheep’s Clothing
McAskill Woodworking
PEI Youth Centre
Beck’s Home Furniture
Bill Bowerbank & Evelyn Martin
Premier Wade MacLauchlan
Ben Hoteling
Geoff Gibson of Campbell Lea
Phillips Agri Services
Weaverly Yours
Kensington Agricultural Services
Global Pet Foods
Charlottetown Vet Clinic
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PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation
Michael Stanley Pottery
Arvidson Pottery
Enchanted Candles
Sew What?
Victoria Playhouse
Landmark Café
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Noëlla Shorgan
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Rob & Deanne Burnett
Fibre Ensemble
Watts Tree Farm
Donna Gill
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PEI Preserve Company
Trailside Café & Inn
Nature Conservancy of Canada
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Issue 133, Page 9
July 2016
INT Fundraising Dinner Donors 2016
Stained Glass Sailboat
$30 Gift Certificate
Hand-made Earrings by Jim Aquilani
3 - Wild Island Books
“Germinate” Shadow Box
Enameled Great Blue Heron & Canada’s National Parks - A Celebration Book
Small Serving Dish by Ellen Burge
Glass Art Flower & Bird Feeder
3 - 5 kg. of Blueberries
Vaude Backpack
2 - Oil Changes
“Sheep in a Sweater” Reproduction
Sterling Silver Earrings by Connie Griffin
Holland College Hoodie
Dinner for Two at Lobster on the Wharf
2 - Indian River Festival Tickets
3-Course Lunch for Two
2 Tickets for Murray McLauchlan, May 2nd
Antique Hooked Rug by Marolyn Dodge Matthews
Hoodie, Hat & Brunch for Two
Wooden Sailboat Wall Hanging
$50 Gift Certificate
“Memories Reborn” Necklace by Teri Hall
“Greenwich PEI” & Great Blue Heron Photos by Winston Maund
Soap Gift Basket
Goodie Basket
Pottery Bowl by Patti Hawkins
Cash Donations:
Anonymous
Brenda Brydon
Rob & Deanne Burnett
Rosemary Curley
Orysia Dawydiak & David Sims
Beth Hoar
This Is It Stained Glass
Famous Peppers
Vitamin Sea Studio
The Bookmark
Niki Heddle
Sharon Clark
Clay Impressions
Dianne Skinner
Jasper Wymans
Sporting Intentions
Summerside Toyota
Julie-Lynn Zahavich
Edge Originals
Holland College
Steven Larkin
Indian River Festival
Lucy Maude Dining Room
Harbourfront Theatre
My Way
Red Shores Charlottetown
Bird Mouse Eco Furniture
The Juice Box Café
Fire & Water Creations
W.P. Maund Photography
Kettlegrove Soapworks
Liz Townsend
Hawkins Pottery
Carol Horne
Will Horne
Barb MacDonald & Doug Deacon
Gwen MacLean
Kate MacQuarrie
Lynne Murphy
Upcoming Nature Events
Jul 5th to Aug 30th— Free Eco Tours at Basin Head—Join the Souris and Area Branch of the PEI Wildlife Federation every Tuesday and
Thursday at 9:30AM for a guided tour of Basin Head. For more information visit: http://www.souriswl.com/eco-tours.html
Jul 16th—The Great Island Sandcastle Competition (Canada Parks Day)— Join Parks Canada staff and other organizations (including
INT) for the day on Cavendish Beach. Famed sandcastle artist, Maurice Bernard, will be on the beach to offer tips to competition participants and to help crown the winner.
Aug 26th—Hon. J. Angus MacLean Award Nominations Due—Nominate an individual, group, or agency who/which has made a significant contribution to the protection of natural areas on PEI. For award information, visit the INT website or contact Barb at Island Nature
Trust ([email protected] or 902-892-7513).
Sept 15th – Island Nature Trust’s Annual General Meeting— 7:00PM at the Carriage House behind Beaconsfield (corner of West & Kent
Streets), Charlottetown. Presentation of Hon. J. Angus MacLean Natural Areas Award. Guest speaker TBA.
Sept 24th —The 22nd Annual Bennett Birding Classic. Enter a team or join a team and spend 24 hours searching for birds across PEI. For
more information, to donate or to register, please contact Barb at Island Nature Trust ([email protected] or 902-892-7513).
Issue 133, Page 8
July 2016
We are…
Board of Directors
Island Nature Trust is governed by a Board of Directors
of 12 to 16 members. Each member serves up to two
three-year terms.
This month we welcome Kevin Teather to our Board of
Directors. Kevin replaces Marina Silva-Opps as the University of Prince Edward Island representative. Welcome Kevin and thank-you to Marina for serving 4
years on our board!
Executive:
Island Nature Trust is a non-profit, private
registered charity dedicated to permanent
protection of natural areas on Prince Edward
Island. We acquire lands through purchase
and donation for protection and help private
landowners protect their own properties
through legislation and promotion of good
land management practices. We also protect
species-at-risk, restore lands and undertake
public nature education.
Donations are always welcome.
Dwaine Oakley
President
Randy Dibblee
Vice-President (Nature PEI)
Contact Us:
Rob MacKay
Treasurer
Donna Gill
Secretary
Ravenwood, Experimental Farm
PO Box 265
Charlottetown, PE
C1A 7K4
Group Representatives:
Luke Peters
PEI Wildlife Federation
Linda Berko
Museum and Heritage Foundation
Kevin Teather
UPEI Biology Department
Remaining Board Members:
Sharon Clark
Phone: 902-892-7513
Fax: 902-628-6331
E-mail: [email protected]
Find Us Online:
www.islandnaturetrust.ca
Carol Horne
Will Horne
Kathleen MacNearney
Sandra McConkey
Paul Smith
@peinaturetrust
Island Nature Trust
Michael Walsh
islandnaturetrust
Support Island Nature Trust
Did you know that a portion of all wild bird seed and bird feeder sales from Phillips
Agri Services, year-round, is donated to Island Nature Trust? Since the partnership
was established in 2007, Phillips Agri Services has donated thousands of dollars to
help our conservation initiatives!
Now at Phillips Agri Services, you can purchase loadable gift cards. These are a
18 Exhibition Drive, Charlottetown great gift idea for bird watchers, farmers, horse lovers and pet owners! The staff at
Phillips Feed are knowledgeable and friendly. Stop in on weekdays from 8am to
5pm, or on Saturdays from 8 to 12pm!