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___________________________________________________________ On Tuesday, May 17, 2005 at 15:05:19 NDT, Paul A Taylor <PaulATaylor@gov.nl.ca> wrote: (Please feel free to distribute this e-mail and its contents) Just a short reminder that the Wilderness and Ecological Reserves Advisory Council (WERAC) are still accepting letters (supporting preferred!) for the establishment of an extension to Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve. Background The area known as "Mistaken Point Extension" is hereby proposed for ecological reserve designation to protect newly discovered fossils directly adjacent to the existing Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve. The new site contains complex animal fossils that are even older than those previously identified in the area. A Public Hearing was held on April 27th, 2005 in the community of Portugal Cove South, to discuss, (1) the implications of establishing an extension for Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve, (2) the preliminary management plan, and (3) the proposed regulations to govern the reserve. To accomplish this WERAC is suggesting the following: that hunting and fishing continue, removal of fossils be prohibited, that the use of the site for educational and scientific purposes be encouraged, that private land be excluded from the reserve, that use of motorized vehicles be prohibited, and that new development activities such as forestry, mining and cabin construction be prohibited. _______________________________ Public submissions will be accepted until WERAC has drafted its report to government, however a May 27th, 2005 deadline has been instituted to give WERAC sufficient time to review all written submissions before drafting their report. Written submission can be forwarded to: Mr. Paul Taylor, Executive Secretary, WERAC 33 Reid's Lane Deer Lake NL A8A 2A3 (709) 635-3854 paul.a.taylor@gov.nl.ca On behalf of WERAC, thank-you for your time. Cheers, Paul Taylor, Executive Secretary WERAC Paul A. Taylor Natural Areas Planner Parks and Natural Areas Division Department of Environment and Conservation Government of Newfoundland & Labrador 33 Reid's Lane, Deer Lake Newfoundland & Labrador Canada A8A 2A3 phone: (709) 635-3854 fax: (709) 635-4541 e-mail: paul.a.taylor@gov.nl.ca website: www.gov.nl.ca/parks ___________________________________________________________ EDIACARAN PERIOD Ediacaran http://ediacaran.wikiverse.org/ Ediacaran Animals http://www.geology.ucdavis.edu/~cowen/HistoryofLife/ediacarans.html Geological time gets a new period: Geologists have added a new period to their official calendar of Earth's history - the first in 120 years http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3721481.stm Google Search: "Ediacaran Period" http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Ediacaran+Period%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&meta= ___________________________________________________________ MISTAKEN POINT FOSSILS Age-Dating of Mistaken Point Fossils http://geol.queensu.ca/museum/exhibits/ediac/mistaken_point/ash_layer.html An Ediacaran Pompeii http://gsc.nrcan.gc.ca/paleochron/06_e.php ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION IN THE NEOPROTEROZOIC http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2002AM/finalprogram/abstract_37788.htm Google Search: "Mistaken Point" fossils http://www.google.ca/search?q=%22Mistaken+Point%22+fossils&ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&meta= Journal hails Canadian discovery of 575-million-year-old fossils http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2003/01/17/nfld_fossils030117.html LIFE AFTER SNOWBALL: The Mistaken Point biota and the early evolution of animals http://gac.esd.mun.ca/nl/02falltrip.htm Life after snowball: The oldest complex Ediacaran fossils http://www.gsajournals.org/gsaonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0091-7613&volume=031&issue=01&page=0027 Mistaken Point Ecological Reserve http://www.env.gov.nl.ca/parks/wer/r_mpe/index.html Mistaken Point extension, emergency ecological reserve established http://www.gov.nf.ca/releases/2003/tcr/0124n02.htm Mistaken Point Fossil Assemblage http://geol.queensu.ca/museum/exhibits/ediac/mistaken_point/mistaken_pt.html Oldest Complex Animal Fossils http://geol.queensu.ca/museum/exhibits/ediac/drook/ 'Oldest, complex fossils' found in Newfoundland http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/12/30/fossil021230 Oldest Complex Life Form Found in Newfoundland http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=9388 Paleoecology of the oldest known animal communities: Ediacaran assemblages at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland http://www.psjournals.org/paleoonline/?request=get-abstract&issn=0094-8373&volume=29&issue=4&page=527 paleonet non-green plants http://jerwood.nhm.ac.uk/archives/paleonet/2002/msg00510.html Shiva Balak Misra (Ph.D.) http://www.esd.mun.ca/alumni/alpha_list/m/misra_s.html ___________________________________________________________ -- *Mr. Doug Boyce, M.Sc., P.Geo., Provincial Paleontologist, Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador P.O. Box 8700, St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 4J6 Phone: (709) 729-2163 Fax: (709) 729-4270 Associate Curator of Paleontology, Provincial Museum of NL ___________________________________________________________
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