. The Canadian field-naturalist. 2004 Brunton: The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 23. Figure 15. Members of the Traill Group near Pinks Lake 29 May 1965, one of the last outings before disbanding as a formal group. From left to right are Winifred Anderson, Ruth Resenel, Alice Frith, Sheila Thomson. Bill Thomson. Rowley Frith, Hue McKenzie, Elva MacKenzie, Anne Hanes and unknown. Photograph by Charlotte Dill. Trail & Landscape 16(2): 95 [1982]. protection of that magnificent natural area, but also to a series of ecological and biodiversity investigations of the wetland (Baldwin and Mosquin
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 2004 Brunton: The Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club 23. Figure 15. Members of the Traill Group near Pinks Lake 29 May 1965, one of the last outings before disbanding as a formal group. From left to right are Winifred Anderson, Ruth Resenel, Alice Frith, Sheila Thomson. Bill Thomson. Rowley Frith, Hue McKenzie, Elva MacKenzie, Anne Hanes and unknown. Photograph by Charlotte Dill. Trail & Landscape 16(2): 95 [1982]. protection of that magnificent natural area, but also to a series of ecological and biodiversity investigations of the wetland (Baldwin and Mosquin 1969). Donald Smith played a pivotal role in generating the neces- sary awareness amongst both the naturaUst commu- nity and National Capital Commission (NCC) officials of the significance of the bog (Dorais et al. 1974). The protected area - now some 3 500 ha in size - is managed by the NCC for the benefit of its ecological functions and has been declared an internationally significant wetland under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (National Capital Commission 1996). In this period local Club members and the general public benefitted from two birding columns in Ottawa newspapers, one in The Ottawa Citizen by Wilfred Bell and the other in The Ottawa Journal by the ap- propriately named John Bird. The latter weekly column, "Bird's-eye View", was particularly beautifully written, accurate and insightful. It emphasized the growing level of birding activity in the Ottawa Valley and offered a timely (unofficial) bulletin board of OFNC and conservation events (McNicholl 1994). Certainly the most important single occurrence for the local Club element in this period was the estab- lishment of Trail & Landscape (T&L) (Figure 14). As expressed by the then CFN editor Theodore Mos- quin, it was to be "a newsletter as well as contain[ing] articles of wide appeal in the conservation field" (LAC OFNC CoUection, 5 January 1967). The existing OFNC Newsletter wasn't
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