Restoration: The Status of the Science published by the 0.5, Environmental 
     
     Protection Agency and the State Association of Wetland Managers in 1989. 
     
    

    
     The central incisor tooth from a bull moose taken during the legal 
     
     hunting season in the Miramachi River Valley, New Brunswick revealed that this 
     
     animal was 17.5 years old, the second oldest moose ever recorded in the 
     
     hundreds of analyses carried out by the Matson's Lab. The oldest was 19 and 
     
     taken from Denali National Park in Alaska. (ASFWB 8:1, March 1992) 
     
    

    
     The Non-Governmental Relations Division of Environment Canada has 
     
     produced a consultations calendar which lists the consultation initiatives of 
     
     the federal government of which they are aware. The topics on which 
     
     consultations are called for include: clean Air, Water, and Land - ozone 
     
     depleting substances; amendments to Montreal Protocol; smog reduction and 
     
     control; National Water Conference (fall 1992), Indian health and water, 
     
     Canada Oceans Act, Ocean Dumping Regulations, new substance notification 
     
     regulations, amendments to PCB regulations, confidential information 
     
     disclosure regulations, metals toxicity, national contaminated sites 
     
     remediation, national strategy on waste paper and paperboard, radioactive 
     
     waste management, export and importation of hazardous waste; Sustaining Our 
     
     Renewable Resources — environmental sustainability in agriculture; sustainable 
     
     fisheries; Special Places and Species - management plans for parks, new 
     
     national parks, Canadian Parks Service POlicy, Wild Animal and Plant 
     
     Protection Act, northern diseased bison action plan; Migratory Birds 
     
     Convention amendments, Migratory Game Bird Hunting Regulations, Migratory 
     
     Birds Convention Act/Canada Wildlife Act, federal heritage strategy; The 
     
     Arctic - Arctic contaminants, waste cleanup, water monitoring, Northern Inland 
     
     Waters Act, environment/economy integration; Global Environmental Security — 
     
     Efficiency and alternate energy, energy efficiency regulations, energuide 
     
     equipment labeling, federal-provincial agreements on global warming, global 
     
     convention on biodiversity; Environmentally Responsible Decision-making - 
     
     Indian partnerships, environmental choice, sustainable development and the 
     
     .minerals and metals industry, harnessing market forces for environmental 
     
     protection, national state of the environment organization, Canadian 
     
     environmental citizenship program, Canadian Environmental Awareness Research 
     
     Council, Canadian Environmental Assessment Act procedural guidelines and 
     
     reference guides; and Emergency Preparedness - Arctic regional environmental 
     
     emergency team. (excerpted from Canadian Environmental Network Bulletin 2:3) 
     
    

    
     StatsCan, the major collector of social and economic information in 
     
     Canada has delved into environmental statistics. They have projects underway 
     
     on: geographically based environmental information system to serve client 
     
     requests for environmentally relevant socioeconomic information; a reference 
     
     inventory containing information on Federal Government environmental 
     
     databases; the collection and development of new statistics on environmental 
     
     themes; the continuing preparation of environmental statistics publications; 
     
     and the development of natural resource and environmental accounts as part of 
     
     Statistics Canada's national accounting activities. For more information 
     
     contact Bruce Mitchell, Environment and Wealth Accounts Division, R.H. Coats 
     
     Building, Statistics Canada, Ottawa KlA 0T6 (From Delta Vol.2 #2, winter 1991) 
     
    

    
     The International Shorebird Survey, 
     
     sponsored and operated by the Manomet Bird 
     
     Observatory, counts shorebirds in 35 
     
     countries throughout the western hemisphere. 
     
     More than 800 participants send their data 
     
     to Manomet, where it is collated and 
     
     summarized. This information is used to 
     
     identify major stopover and migration 
     
     staging areas and to aid shorebird research, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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