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Effects of harvesting biomass for energy on the nutrient status and long-term productivity of selected forest sites in the Maritimes : [draft manuscripts and other materials]

File contains three draft manuscript reports compiled by Freedman, with U. Prager, P.N. Duinker, R. Morash, A.J. Hanson, and J.G. Ogden, for the Institute for Resource and Environmental Studies. File includes the annual reports for 1979-80, 1980-81, and 1984. File also contains correspondence, charts, and revision notes.

Effects of the herbicide 2,4,5-T on the habitat and abundance of breeding birds and small mammals of a conifer clearcut in Nova Scotia : [manuscript and correspondence]

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with A.M. Poirier, R. Morash, and F. Scott, for Canadian Field-Naturalist, volume 102, number 1. File also contains correspondence and reviewer comments, and deal with a location near Stewiacke, Nova Scotia.

Elisabeth Mann Borgese fonds

  • MS-2-744
  • Fonds
  • 1938-2002, predominant 1969-2001
Fonds consists of records pertaining primarily to the professional activities of Elisabeth Mann Borgese, focusing on major organizations and projects with which she was affiliated from the beginning of her North American career in the 1940s. The collection includes correspondence, publications and drafts, administrative records, conference materials, sound and video recordings, research materials, photographs, and other materials.

Borgese, Elisabeth Mann

Endangered species and endangered spaces : [manuscripts and other material]

File contains manuscripts, draft manuscripts, correspondence and a newspaper clipping relating to the article Endangered Species and Endangered Spaces, published in the Chronicle Herald on Saturday, October 14, 1989 as part of the column Environmentally Speaking, a weekly contribution from the School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University.

Experimental studies of the effects of acidity and associated water chemistry on amphibians : [manuscript and other materials]

File contains draft manuscripts of an article written by Freedman, J. Dale, and J. Kerekes, which appeared in the Proceedings of the Nova Scotia Institute of Science, volume 35, about laboratory bioassays of five species of Nova Scotian amphibians. File also includes correspondence, reviewer comments, and photographs supporting the research.

Field notes related to flora at lake sites in southwestern Nova Scotia

File contains a field notebook compiled by Bill Freedman in 1984 during his research on the Riverside region. Includes lists of flora seen at the following Nova Scotia lakes and bogs: Grafton, Snake, McGinty, Big Red, Little Red, Pebbleloggitch, Beaverskin, North Cranberry, Puzzle, Cosiuelle, Little Peskowesk, Mud, Loon, George, Peskowesk, Hilchemakaar, Big Dam East, Big Dam West, Iramy Bog, Mill Bog, Drain, Spectacle, Jordan, and Round Pond.

Forest biomass and nutrient studies in central Nova Scotia : [manuscript and other materials]

File contains the manuscript written by Freedman with P.N. Duinker, H. Barclay, R. Morash, and U. Prager, for ENFOR (Energy from the Forest) and Environment Canada. The manuscript is written in five parts, contained in four volumes: 1. "Biomass and nutrient standing crop equations for ten tree species in central Nova Scotia"; 2. "Standing crops of biomass and nutrients in a variety of forest stands in central Nova Scotia"; 3. "Ambient bulk deposition, throughfall and stemflow in a variety of forest stands"; 4. "Biomass and nutrients in ground vegetation, forest floor, soils, and litterfall in a variety of forest stands"; and 5. "Summary report: Effects of potential nutrient removals with intensively harvested biomass on continued site productivity". File also contains data sets, transparencies, relevant tables, editorial board reports, and negatives of tables.

Humanity overwhelms ecosystems : [draft manuscripts, correspondence and newspaper clipping]

File contains drafts manuscripts, correspondence and a newspaper clipping relating to the article Humanity overwhelms ecosystems, published in the Chronicle Herald Saturday, April 7, 1990 as part of the column Environmentally Speaking, a weekly contribution from the School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University.

Hunting, trapping in N.S. require sustainable limits : [draft manuscripts and other material]

File contains manuscripts, drafts manuscripts, correspondence, data sets and a newspaper clipping relating to the article Hunting, Trapping in N.S. Require Sustainable Limits, published in the Chronicle Herald Saturday, November 11, 1989 as part of the column Environmentally Speaking, a weekly contribution from the School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University.

Inventory of ecological values on Lawlor Island, Halifax County : [manuscripts and other material] ; Inventory of ecological values on George's Island, Halifax County : [manuscripts and other material]

File contains manuscripts, draft manuscripts, notes and data sets relating to the report Inventory of Ecological Values on Lawlor Island, Halifax County, and the report Inventory of Ecological Values on George's Island, Halifax County. Reports prepared for Parks Canada.

Journal and newspaper articles relating to the Brown spruce longhorn beetle : [draft manuscripts and other materials]

File contains facsimiles of newspaper articles relating to the containment of the Brown spruce longhorn beetle infestation of Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Otto Wettstein's draft report "On breeding Tetropium fuscum" (for Public Works and Government Services Canada), S. Balazy's draft "The fungus Cephalosporium (Acrostalagmus) lecanii Zimm. as a pathogen of beetle larvae", L.M. Hanks's "Influence of the larval host plant on reproductive strategies of cerambycid beetles", Zenon Capecki's "The occurrence of Tetropium Kirby (Cerambycidae, Coleoptera) and their parasites in Poland", J. Sweeney, L. Humble, and E. Allen's "Assessment of the Bruks chipper for phytosanitary production of chips free of live Tetropium spp. and other insects", Christopher Majka and Jan Klimaszewski's "Phloeocharis subtilissima Mannerheim (Staphylinidae: Phloeocharinae) and Cephennium gallicum Ganglbauer (Scydmaenidae) new to North America: a case study in the introduction of exotic Coleoptera to the port of Halifax, with new records of other species", and other Brown spruce longhorn beetle reports and articles.

Macrophyte communities in three lakes in Kejimkujik National Park : [draft manuscripts]

File contains twp draft manuscripts (one typed and one handwritten with many revisions) by Freedman and Colin C. Stewart, for the Kejimkujuk Calibrated Catchments Program, the Aquatic and Terrestrial Effects of the Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants, Report of the Proceedings, November 18, 1981, edited by J. Kerekes, June 1982, sponsored by Atlantic Region LRTAP Monitering and Effects Working Group. File also contains the manuscript of the proceedings. Manuscript covers Pebbleloggitch, Beaverskin, and Kejimkujik lakes.

Major macrophyte communities and limiting factors for three lakes in Kejimkujik National Park, Nova Scotia : [draft manuscript and other materials]

File contains the draft manuscript written by Freedman and Colin Stewart, for the Kejimkujik Calibrated Catchments Program workshop proceedings on the Aquatic and Terrestrial Effects of the Long-Range Transport of Air Pollutants, Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 26, 1983, edited by J. Kerekes. File also contains the manuscript of the proceedings, as well as other drafts.

McNab's Island Christmas bird counts

File contains handwritten and typed research notes compiled by Freedman and others, documenting bird counts at McNab's Island, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, between the years 1995 and 2012. File also contains correspondence.

Notes on property exploration for the Nova Scotia Nature Trust

File contains notes written by Bill Freedman in 2012 while undertaking property explorations for the Nova Scotia Nature Trust. Notes contain a brief survey of each location and potential financial costs involved, for locations at Middle and Outer Pleasant Harbour, Gerard Island, Hemeon's Head, Bougles Isle (?), Pugwash, and a site at Tusket.

Observations of foliar contamination caused by an accidental ash emission from the Tufts Cove generating station July 4, 1990 : [manuscripts and other material]

File contains manuscript, draft manuscripts, correspondence, handwritten notes, maps, data sets relating to the report Observations of Foliar Contamination Caused by an Accidental Ash Emission From the Tufts Cove Generating Startion July 4, 1990, and a newspaper article about Freedman from the Chronicle Herald July 24.

Observations of plant damage and foliar contamination possibly linked to an accidental emission of acidic particulates from the Tufts Cove generating station : [manuscript, correspondence and data sets]

File contains manuscript, correspondence and data sets relating to the report Observations of Plant Damange and Foliar Contamination Possibly Linked to an Accidental Emission of Acidic Particulates from the Tufts Cove Generating Station.

Off the beaten path : [draft manuscripts and other material]

File contains draft manuscripts, review comments, correspondence and a newspaper clipping relating to the article Off the Beaten Path, published in the Chronicle Herald on Saturday, November 25, 1989 as part of the column Environmentally Speaking, a weekly contribution from the School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University.

Other studies on Point Pleasant Park and the Brown spruce longhorn beetle : [manuscripts and other materials]

File contains manuscript reports dealing with the health of Point Pleasant Park and the containment of the Brown spruce longhorn beetle. File contains the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources "1994/95 Spruce Beetle Damage Survey" (Mike LeBlanc and Bob Guscott), the "Point Pleasant Park Forest Health Survey, June 8-10, 2000" (Guscott), two draft manuscripts of "Brown Spruce Longhorn Beetle" (Plant Health Risk Assessment Unit, Science Division; September 1999 and June 2000), the Halifax Regional Municipality "Point Pleasant Park, Park and Urban Forest Master Plan" (November 18, 1998), and other fact sheets (Friends of Point Pleasant Park and Environment Canada) and presentation drafts.

Overview of the environmental impacts of forestry, with particular reference to the Atlantic Provinces : [manuscript and correspondence]

File contains the manuscript of the report written by Freedman, by the Institute for Resource and Environmental Studies under a contract from Environment Canada, Atlantic Region, and Fisheries and Oceans Canands [I.R.E.S. Research Report 82-02]. File also contains correspondence and reviewer comments.

Personal archives of Harry Thurston

  • MS-2-691
  • Fonds
  • 1972-2021
Fonds contains Harry Thurston's book manuscripts, copies of speeches and interviews, correspondence and research materials.

Thurston, Harry, 1950-

Personal archives of Harry Thurston

  • MS-2-691
  • Accession
  • 1976-1981
Accessions consist of materials related to the publication of the poetry periodical Germination. Materials include manuscripts and proofs, editorial drafts, correspondence, sales and business records, and promotional materials.

Thurston, Harry, 1950-

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