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Rogers Television created a special presentation for the annual general meeting on November 13 featuring guest speaker Dr. Michelle Gray, from UNB Fredericton and the Canadian Rivers Institute, to speak on the topic of “Forest Harvest on the Watershed”.
Shawn DeLong from Rogers TV visited Sandra Webster-Estey at the native tree nursery in Durham Bridge to learn about one fine example of land stewardship in the Nashwaak Watershed.
The following is an email sent by a student to the professor following this outing:
On Saturday, September 15th from 2-4pm, we partnered with Radical Edge and OBOZ Footwear for the One More Tree event at the Marysville Flats. Over 40 volunteers participated in this event including numerous good-hearted helpers who prepared the site the day before, and removed trees from the nursery the morning of the event.
Media coverage for the event was positive. The story made television news in Atlantic Canada. The CBC News web story for the event is available by visiting this link
Sincere thanks to all those supporters who have enabled this valuable project, including the Environment and Climate Change Canada, Wildlife Habitat Canada, the NB Environmental Trust Fund, Lush Cosmetics, the City of Fredericton and the NB Wildlife Trust Fund.
The NB Environmental Trust Fund announced support for NWAI projects in 2018-19. The renewed investment is for work in watershed restoration and education. Monitoring projects, including water quality monitoring and assessing culverts for fish passage, are included in the provincial support.
Environment and Local Government Minister Serge Rousselle and deputy premier Stephen Horsman met with NWAI President Dr. Peter Toner and Executive Director Marieka Chaplin for the announcement.
For a complete list of NB ETF funded projects for 2018-2019 Click here
Come work this summer with the NWAI as a project assistant.
The Project Assistant will be responsible for assisting with educational programming for children and youth in both the public school and summer camp setting with grades 3 and 4 as the primary focus. S/he will assist with the Landowner Conservation Program, report-writing and other documentation as requested. The position will include time spent in the field – assisting with culvert assessments, field trips, restoration projects, work in the tree nursery, and water quality monitoring. S/he will assist in representing the organization at external events, and be active in the planning, development and implementation of NWAI sponsored events.
The position is from May-September, and you must be returning to full-time studies in the Fall semester.
As outdoor activities begin to slow down for the NWAI, let’s take a look at some seasonal pictures of the Nashwaak River taken in 2018 📸🏞