Marg Schweitzer will detail how she and her husband found an archaeological site that was new to the provincial database. Explore landscape use by the first peoples into the local region 9,000 years ago. 

*TBFN Eastern Bluebird Project – Sandy Barro will present a short summary of the TBFN Eastern Bluebird Project. Be prepared to volunteer!

This presentation provides some insights on the likely impacts of climate change on forests and forestry in Ontario as well as a number of “forestry related concerns” that have been expressed by various groups, some of which are climate related.

The intent is to provide a venue for dialogue on these issues in the hopes that there can be shared learning. 

Following the Annual General Meeting, members are invited to participate in the ever-popular Membership Slide Night. Members are invited to share their favourite photographs of a trip or nature-related favourites!

If interested, please contact and send photos to John Barro (john@sibley.mine.nu) by January 15, 2024.  If you are familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint (or equivalent), this is the preferred method of submission. You can submit a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and label the file with your name. If you are not familiar with Microsoft PowerPoint, please submit your photos to John with the order you would like them shown. If you need some assistance sending photos into a suitable presentation format, please contact John at the email address given above.

The submitted presentations will be shared from the computer at Lunan Hall (at St. Paul’s United Church) and you will be able to share your photos with everyone in attendance. You will be notified in advance on how many participants there are and in what order you will present.

Please join us on Monday, March 25th at 7 pm for a talk on the various projects that are affiliated with TBFN. Throughout the evening, brief presentations on club projects will be overviewed. Opportunities to speak to project leaders will be available after the presentations. Talks take place at Lunan Hall, St. Paul's United Church, 349 Waverley Street. Coffee, tea and cake will be served. The talk is free and open to the general public.

Red, orange, yellow-green, and mineral grey. Leafy, powdery, shrubby, and crusty. Lichens are both eye-catching and astoundingly diverse. This talk aims to break down lichen biology and identification for those without micro-scopes and laboratories. The region boasts and incredible diversity of unique lichens, and we will cover which boreal, temperate, tropical, and arctic-alpine species you might get a chance to see while out exploring.
*Cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) – Nathan Wilson will give an update on the status and recognition of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) and how to report suspected sightings of it in Thunder Bay District.