{"id":1917,"date":"2018-10-12T19:47:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T23:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1917"},"modified":"2018-10-31T20:29:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T00:29:52","slug":"monday-october-22-2018-the-natural-history-of-the-halifax-backlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1917","title":{"rendered":"Monday October 22, 2018: The Natural History of the Halifax Backlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_263\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AsetJPfallP1090833LG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"size-full wp-image-263\" src=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AsetJPfallP1090833SM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-263\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jack Pine-Broom Crowberry fire barrens<br \/>\n are nationally unique and globally rare.<br \/>\nSome of the best sites occur in the Backlands<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A public lecture for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescans.org\/\">SCANS<\/a>\u00a0(Seniors&#8217; College Association of Nova Scotia) by David Patriquin on\u00a0<em>The Natural History of the Halifax Backlands\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Date and Time<\/em>: \u200bOctober 22, 2018 &#8211; Monday, 1:30 &#8211; 3:30 pm<\/p>\n<p><em>Place<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/thescans.org\/locations-halifax.html#willspry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Captain William Spry Community Centre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cBacklands\u201d is a Thomsonesque wilderness located only a few kilometers from peninsular Halifax. It includes nine lakes, spectacular views and dozens of informal hiking and biking trails. David will take us on a virtual tour through the area, describing what we see, discussing what makes it all work and explaining what is needed to sustain it.<\/p>\n<p>View more details on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescans.org\/public-lectures.html\">SCANS website<\/a><br \/>\nView\/download\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thescans.org\/uploads\/2\/4\/7\/9\/24796568\/davidpatriquin2.pdf\">Poster<\/a><br \/>\nView <a href=\"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/scans\">Links<\/a> (including a PDF of the slide presentation)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public lecture for SCANS\u00a0(Seniors&#8217; College Association of Nova Scotia) by David Patriquin on\u00a0The Natural History of the Halifax Backlands\u00a0 Date and Time: \u200bOctober 22, 2018 &#8211; Monday, 1:30 &#8211; 3:30 pm Place: Captain William Spry Community Centre The \u201cBacklands\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/?p=1917\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions\/1936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backlandscoalition.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}