In a later issue of T&L , I provided a summary of the six suggestions that were 
received. They covered support for articles published in the CFN about the north, 
support for northern field studies, an endowment to support publication of the CFN, 
an endowment to cover mailing costs for both Club publications, splitting interest 
between the CFN and the OFNC, and support for a commercial venture to publish 
bird song and multi-media CDs related to Birds of Canada. (Pope 200) 
In the end, Council decided to treat the $100,000 as an endowment. Interest from 
this endowment would be deposited into two funds, one for CFN and one for OFNC. 
The interest would be split 80/20. Unused interest in any year would be carried over 
to the next year. The CFN portion would be used to defray the costs of printing 
articles about the north in cases where an author did not have institutional support to 
publish it. The OFNC portion would be used to support projects approved by 
Council. At the beginning, interest earned on the endowment was about $6,000 per 
year but lately it has slipped to about $5,000. As of Sept. 30, 2004, the remaining 
balance in the funds was: CFN - $15,805, OFNC - $2,457. 
The following expenditures have been drawn from the funds up to Sept. 30, 2004. 
CFN 
2000 - nil 
2001 - $1,400, 3 articles (birds and mammals in Thelon, quillworts in Yukon, frogs 
at Churchill) 
2002 - $120, 1 article (golden eagle attacks harlequin duck) 
2003 - $4,112,6 articles (grizzly bears in northern Manitoba, common Eiders around 
Digges Sound, wolf response to sled dog, predation by wolves on 
wolverines and martens, Canada and the buffalo, sperm whale strandings) 
2004 - $1,440, 1 article (range extension of vascular plant flora in NWT and 
Nunavut) 
OFNC 
2000 - nil 
2001 - $220, Peregrine Watch 
2002 - $1,491 (Taverner Cup donation $1,250, Peregrine Watch $241) 
2003 - $1,550 (Taverner Cup donation $1,250, Peregrine Watch $300) 
2004 - nil 
References 
Moore, D. 1999. Letter from the President. T&L 33(3): 115. 
Pope, F, 200. The Manning Bequest. T&L 34(2): 54-55. 
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