On Wednesday evening at St Luke’s church in Annapolis Royal, the Clean Annapolis River Project(CARP) hosted a public presentation on two years of estuary monitoring.
The event included four presentations:
Kyle vandertoorn. Overview of CARP
Tim Webster (AGRG). Hydrodynamic modeling
Leah Creaser. Beach Seining
Keeler Colter. Fish Tagging (Striped bass, Atlantic sturgeon)
The audience numbered around thirty. The backstory was the history, from a proposal for Heritage River status to the causeway and the demise of the tidal generating station.
To move forward, it is critical that the watershed is considered in relation to existing land use, water quality and its impact on fish species that use the Annapolis River. This event complemented the Saving our Forests event from the previous Saturday (see Saving Forests). The difference was the size of the audience and that it was less political in nature.
Tuesday, Heather and I decided to walk the Peter Point trail in Kejimkujik National Park. The trail was dry (free of snow). We did not see a soul. The Visitor Centre was closed at this time of year. It did encourage me pull off the shelf, Dan Rubinstein’s Born to Walk.
Sandra Barry sent me an email. Geography as Generosity : Robert MacFarlane on Barry Lopez. In Orion Magazine, March 30, 2023.
“Robert MacFarlane attunes us to a guiding principle in Barry Lopez’s work ‘how the rendering of landscape with particular nuance and specificity strengthens connection to each place and counteracts the indifference that can emerge from nameless abstraction.’
Acknowledgements
Heather listened to the presentations, and shared the walk. Sandra shared the Orion link. Edward put it together with the graphics.
References
Dan Rubinstein, 2015, Born to Walk: the transformative power of a pedestrian act, ECW Press.
Robert MacFarlane, 2023, Geography as Generosity, Orion Magazine, March 30, 2023.
POSTSCRIPT
Small tidal estaury emptying into the Annapolis Basin near The Old Post Road, with Digby on the distant shore. Watercolour by Edward.
Ernest Blair Experiment 