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Category: Environment

Tree Pruning

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| Environment, Events, Pictures

The Upton Farm Trust board got busy last week pruning the CN/TREE CANADA trees along the Trans Canada Highway. Unfortunately, there has been damage and some loss (4 trees so far) and we are trying to get the trees looking their best and giving them the best chance for survival. This will take several sessions […]

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CN donates 100 trees; Planted at P.E.I.’s Upton Farmlands

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| Environment, Events, Media, Uncategorized
Heidi Hyndman - CN donates trees

Jim Day (jim.day@theguardian.pe.ca)Published: 13 hours ago CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. —  Motorists are now enjoying a scenic stretch along Capital Drive heading into and out of Charlottetown – one that will grow to impressive heights – thanks to a donation of 100 trees. A legacy forest was planted on Upton Farmlands to commemorate CN’s 100th anniversary, in partnership […]

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First Annual General Meeting

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| Environment

Thank you to all that were able to attend the 1st Annual General Meeting up the Upton Trust. Please see below for more information, including the report received by Tina Beers, from BDA Landscape Architects. AGM Minutes  Presidents Remarks Treasurer’s Report Consultants Report

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A Concert on the Upton Farmlands?

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| Environment, History, Media

 Charlottetown City Hall On Jan. 30, 2008 the Council of the City of Charlottetown met with members of the Upton Farm Preservation Network. The Council asked the UFPN for its opinion on the use of Upton Farm as a potential concert site. The UFPN was told that the concert, if held, would take place on the […]

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We’re working hard to save the Farm

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| Canada Lands Company, Environment, Pictures, Raising Awareness

Husky silhouetted by Upton Farm sunset. As you can see by the tracks in the snow, this property is well-used by residents for recreational purposes all winter long. While the weather at times has been frightful, a core group of the Upton Farm Preservation Network Network continues to meet weekly. We have had discussions with provincial […]

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Curiousity

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| Environment, Pictures

Cold, delicately as the dark snow, A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf; Two eyes serve a movement, that now And again now, and now, and now Sets neat prints into the snow Between trees, and warily a lame Shadow lags by stump and in hollow Of a body that is bold to come . . […]

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Friends of Farm AGM Features Eminent Scientist

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The Friends of the Farm is a non-profit volunteer organisation formed to protect the Charlottetown’s  agricultural research station property (also known as Ravenwood, The Experimental Farm and The Home Farm) from commercial development. [At one time, this property, like the Upton Farmlands, was in danger of being transferred to the Canada Lands Company and being developed for profit. […]

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“Coastal areas a big concern,” says Nature Conservancy of Canada

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| Environment, Raising Awareness

The Upton Farmlands property today. The Canada Lands Company, the federal crown corporation that holds responsiblity for this land, wants to develop it for houses and businesses despite the fact there are nearly 300 serviced housing lots nearby ready for use. In effect, CLC wants to compete with PEI residents to sell real estate properties and profit from this […]

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Sea Lettuce “a menace taking over PEI”

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| Canada Lands Company, Environment, History, Media

The October 12th Charlottetown Guardian reported on an environmental conference held in Montague. The environmentalists in attendance said that “sea lettuce is a menace taking over many estuaries in PEI and must be curtailed in the interests of fishing and tourism.” Sea lettuce grows in nutrient rich waters and has a distinctly rotten egg odour when exposed to […]

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Farley Mowat Donates Land to NS Nature Trust: We Challenge CLC To Do Same in PEI

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| Canada Lands Company, Environment, Pictures, Raising Awareness

Author Farley Mowat and his wife, author Claire Mowat. Well-known Canadian author Farley Mowat recently donated 200 acres of his Cape Breton property to the Nova Scotia Nature Trust.  “Nova Scotia is like every other part of the western world, teetering on the edge of falling into some developer’s hands and being destroyed for money,” Mowat told […]

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