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land at present. Reservations to be 

 made for public natural parks and game 

 preserves may now have to be repur- 

 chased from private owners by the 

 Provincial Government. 



IV. NATURAL AREAS 



A central location in the southwest of 

 the province including the region where 

 the counties of Annapolis, Digby, Yar- 

 mouth, Shelburne and Queens meet — 

 territory still in a more or less natural 

 condition on the watershed of a country 

 not well adapted to agriculture, and 

 abounding in lakes and small streams. 



The lake region of Queens County 

 nearby, where similar conditions prevail 

 with more water area. 



A central region at the confluence of 

 the counties of Annapolis, Kings and 

 Luenburg, not very far removed to the 

 northeast. 



Near the center of the province, a 

 similar area at the confluence of the 

 counties of Colchester, Pictou, Anti- 

 gonish and Halifax. 



Cape Breton Island, northern portions 

 of Inverness and Victoria counties (B2), 

 an area 30 mi. broad by about 70 long, 

 with its high glacier planed plateau, 

 1000 to 1200 ft. above the sea, showing 

 the greatest range of ecological condi- 

 tions from the base to the summits, of 

 any other portion of the province, is 

 also being suggested. The most of the 

 region is unsuited to agriculture, and is 

 now the best natural reservation of large 

 game in the Province. It has many 

 square miles of deciduous and conifer- 

 ous forest, alpine meadows, sand areas, 

 flood plains, talus slope, gravel slides, 

 bogs, waterfalls, mountains, ravines, 

 hills, bluffs, shores, sandy and rocky; 

 glacial striations, swamps, marshes, 

 ponds, lakes and rivers. It is splendidly 

 described in 218 pages with illustrations, 

 by Dr. Geo. E. Nichols in Volume 22, 

 pages 249-467 of the Transactions of the 

 Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences, June, 1918. 



*Wild Geese and Water Foivl Reserva- 

 tion. The Nova Scotia "Forest and 

 Game Act, 1921," creates probably the 



only thing approaching a "territorial 

 reservation" for water fowl which 

 appear to go no furthers outh for winter- 

 ing purposes. The territory includes 

 three deep neighboring indentation 

 (bays) on the Atlantic coast — one in 

 Queens County, one between Queens 

 and Shelburne County and the other 

 wholly in Shelburne County. 



Lepreau Hochmoor. Fine example of 

 hochmoor. Lepreau, N. B. Shore Line 

 Ry. — F. W. Ganong. 



Sable Island in the Atlantic. About 

 150 mi. from Halifax, Nova Scotia, is 

 now a sand dune island about 20 mi. 

 long and less than one mi. broad, con- 

 taining a brackish pond in which a fresh 

 water sponge has been found. The 

 island has a light-house and lifesaving 

 station. Attempts have been made to 

 grow trees and grasses, etc., to bind 

 the sand which rises in some places to 

 nearly 100 ft. in height. But the island 

 has diminished very considerably within 

 historic times. A very complete his- 

 torical and ecological description is 

 given of this most interesting island 

 by Harold St. John in the Proceedings 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History, 

 Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. 1-103, Plates, 1, 2. 

 (Cont. Gray. Herb., Harvard Uni- 

 versitj^. New Series, No. LXII.) 



Guysboro Heath. Heath of unknown 

 area. Will probably remain for the 

 next hundred years. In Guysboro and 

 part of Antigonish Counties. — C. J. 

 Connolly, 



Minas Basin Salt Marsh. Area of 

 salt marsh in Minas Basin, between the 

 mouths of the Gaspereau and Corn- 

 wallis Rivers, including sand areas, 

 flood plain, lakes, rivers, and marshes. 

 Located in warm area, at the southern 

 end of Annapolis Valley, with waters 

 of the basin to the northwest, and 

 mountains to the southeast. Very high 

 tides of the basin render it an attractive 

 area for plant study. Located in Kings 

 Countv, 7| mi. from Wolfville, N. S.— 

 H. G. Perry. 



The Ellenwood and Agards Lake 

 Region. Deciduous and eastern forest, 

 sand areas, flood plains, swamps, 

 marshes, ponds, rivers, springs. Lo- 

 cated in Yarmouth County, which has a 

 flora in many ways more typical of 

 Massachusetts than that of the northern 

 part of the United States. Lakes are 

 suitable natural preserves for both 

 plants and animals. Located in Yar- 

 mouth County, 12 mi. from Yarmouth, 

 N. S.—H. G. Perry. 



