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The Nicola naturalists will have Jo Anne Hales on April 19th to present Habitat Selection of the Spade Foot toad.

Jo-Anne Hales is a professional agrologist and the Environmental Specialist for the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. She is also completing a Master of Science degree in Environmental Science at Thompson Rivers University studying the Great Basin Spadefoot (an amphibian species at risk) on the New Gold – New Afton Mine site. Come and hear about these charismatic little critters. Her talk was postponed in May 2017 due to the floods – catch it in 2018.

Meeting time is 7PM all welcome, membership or donation requested, top of the hill Belshaw Avenue in Merritt. Free parking , no food or drink in the lecture theater.

On this Day: March 28th 1979

A reactor on Pensylvania’s Three Mile Island  has a partial meltdown.