Warden's Report

Victor  Henrikson is our highly organized and creative Chief Trail Warden.  Each month he produces a fabulous report which includes statistics, photos, news and stories.  The reports are archived in the Warden tab.  Here is September, 2018 for your reading pleasure:

Motorized or Not?

Our Dedicated Volunteers

We're immensely indebted to and proud of our trail wardens who have logged over 1200 hours and 1000 outings so far in 2018.  Ably led by Victor Henrikson, they are a well-trained and dedicated band who handle every imaginable situation with aplomb.  I always enjoy reading Victor's monthly reports, which are chock full of stories, comments and photographs.  Be sure to read this month's report under the 'Trail Warden' tab.  And smile at the really bad joke.............

e-Bird

Birdwatching has been transformed by its own social media.  e-Bird, run by Cornell University collects tens of thousands of reports submitted by dedicated birdwatchers.  They geocode them, identifying 'hotspots' by repeated submissions.  Three are in the park:


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Hotspot	Species	Rank in Halifax County
Salt Marsh Trail	158	13
Bissett Lake	101	36
Shearwater Flyer	89	47

another is nearby

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Rainbow Haven

168

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For today, let's check out the SMT.

You can look at a chart of the occurrence of species in checklists.  This doesn't account for relative abundance, just prevalence.  The top ten species (with a month-by-month chart, highest occurrence red, lowest green) are:

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American Crow
Herring Gull
Black-capped Chickadee
American Black Duck
Ring-billed Gull
Song Sparrow
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Black-backed Gull
Canada Goose
Greater Yellowlegs

So you'll always see a crow or a herring gull.

You can explore data and print your own checklists.

Here is a treemap of all species seen on the SMT since 2005.  The size of a box is proportional to the frequency of appearance in checklists.  The bigger the box, the greater the prevalence.

Special General Meeting

Monday 18 June 2018 starting at 6:30 pm

in the Program Building 256 Bissett Road called

to decide on a revised set of By-Laws for

Cole Harbour Parks and Trails Association 

The primary item of business will deal with the following special resolution:

That Cole Harbour Parks and Trails Association accept the revised by-laws as presented in the file "CHPTA by-LawsSGM2018.pdf" distributed for review by email 15 June 2018

At our Annual General Meeting 26 April 2018, the membership unanimously passed the Special Resolution on new By-Laws. The By-Laws were submitted to the Registry of Joint Stock Companies shortly after. Their review revealed that we had omitted a by-law required in Schedule B of the Societies Act. It involves the custody of the Seal of the Society. I have confirmed that CHPTA is not required to have a Seal but the Societies Act requires a by-law outlining the custody and use of the Seal. The required By-Law was left out due to my misinterpretation of Act and was not picked up by Registrar staff when I passed a draft to them for comment.

 

To meet the requirements of the legislation, I have inserted the following clause in by-law 39 (c) for the duties of the secretary in these revised By-Laws.

"(The secretary shall,....) (c)       have custody of the Seal of the Society which may be affixed to anydocument upon resolution of the Directors;"

The remaining clauses have been re-numbered. No other part of the By-Laws has been changed from the version adopted at our Annual General Meeting 26 April 2018.

I am aware that this was short notice and I apologize for that. The intent was to put the notice out early this week but I was distracted by the forest fire threatening the Shearwater Flyer. This notice does meet the minimum notice required under our current By-Laws. I hope that we can get a decent turnout on Monday to resolve this oversight.

Michael McFadden

Chair

Cole Harbour Parks and Trails Association

902-435-3952

www.chpta.org