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Editor & Production Coordinator 
Joyce Reddoch 
Associate Editors 
Bill Gummer Peter Hall 
Business Manager 
& Typing Coordinator 
Jim Montgomery 
Graphics 
Marc Guertin 
Production Staff 
Telephone Coordinator 
Dorothy Greene 
Proofreaders 
Eleanor Bottomley 
Don Davidson 
Allan Reddoch 
Eleanor Thomson 
Mailing Team 
Lisa Meyboom 
Coordinator 
Duncan Chaundy 
Jennifer Chaundy 
Gwen Jenkins 
Views expressed in Trail & Landscape are not necessarily those 
of The Ottawa Field-Naturalists’ Club 
The Ottawa Field ~ Naturalists’ Club 
— Founded 1879 — 
President 
W.K. (Bill) Gummer 
Objectives of the Club: To promote the appreciation, preservation and conserva¬ 
tion of Canada's natural heritage: to encourage investigation and publish the 
results of research in all fields of natural history and to diffuse information on 
these fields as widely as possible; to support and co-operate with organizations 
engaged in preserving, maintaining or restoring environments of high quality for 
living things. 
Club Publications: THE CANADIAN FIELD-NATURALIST, a quarterly devoted to 
reporting research in all fields of natural history relevant to Canada; TRAIL & 
LANDSCAPE, providing articles on the natural history of the Ottawa Valley and on 
local Club activities five times a year. 
Field Trips, Lectures and other natural history activities are arranged for local 
members; see “Coming Events” in this issue. 
Membership Fees: Individual (yearly) $17 Sustaining (yearly) $40 
Family (yearly) $19 Life (one payment) $400 
Subscriptions to Trail & Landscape (libraries and institutions) $17 per year 
(Volume) 
Single copies of recent issues $3.50 each. 
Membership application, correspondence: Information: 
THE OTTAWA FIELD-NATURALISTS’ CLUB (613) 722-3050 
Box 3264, Postal Station C 
Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 4J5 
Second Class Mall — Registration #2777 
