This blog is the first in a series about our pollinator garden at Conserver House. You can find the second blog here. Last week our interns Aliza, Olivia and Karyn traveled to David Smith’s garden to learn more about native plant species in New Brunswick. David operates Save A (Native) Plant in Fredericton, a nursery dedicated […]
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When you hear about “blue-green algae blooms” you may conjure up images of Lake Erie or Lake Winnipeg which in 2013 won the dubious distinction of the World’s Most Threatened Lake. So full of blue-green algae, you can see the blooms from space. Yikes. We’ve got a bit of our own blue-green algal bloom problem in
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Roughly 50 people joined our Fundy Baykeeper Matt Abbott on Saturday, July 18 for the annual Musquash Paddle. Overcast skies provided the perfect conditions for a trek through the stunning flora, friendly wildlife, historic wrecks, and beautifully-preserved salt marsh of the Bay of Fundy’s Musquash Estuary. As always, the event attracted many return paddlers along with a
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Executive Director Lois Corbett spoke with the Moncton Times & Transcript about the provincial government’s proposed electronics recycling program for an article published on Tuesday, July 27. By the fall of 2016, the province is aiming to launch an e-waste recycling program that would operate similar to the beverage container program. Consumers pay a small fee
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…if you won a freezer stocked full of delicious local food! That’s the case for Ann Beers of the Moncton area, the winner of our first-ever Local Food Spring Raffle! Earlier this summer, we sold tickets on a brand new vertical freezer full of local food and products. Ann was the lucky winner and received
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Executive Director Lois Corbett spoke with the CBC’s Kate Letterick for an article on the province’s proposed electronic waste recycling program, which ran on Monday, July 27. The provincial government is considering changes under the Clean Environment Act that would create a program for the proper disposal of electronics, such as televisions, computers, digital cameras and
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On July 16, we — Olivia, Aliza and Karyn — travelled out to visit the Nashwaak watershed and learn more about the Conservation Council’s Freshwater Protection Program. We’d all been enjoying our summer so far at Conserver House, but we were excited for our first work adventure out of the office — a day on
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The following appeared in the Opinion section of the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal on Saturday, July 18, in the Letters to the Editor in the Monday, July 20 edition of The Daily Gleaner, and in The Northern Light (Bathurst) on Tuesday, Aug. 4. What could New Brunswick get out of a Canadian energy strategy? Comfortable homes, lower
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