2025 Spring Meet

Friday, June 20
 

6:30pm     

• Registration at the Gallagher Centre (refreshments provided)

7:30pm     

• Presentation by Colin Arlt, Executive Director of the Buffalo Culture Collective
• Viewing of "Interview with Ruth Smith: The Beginnings of the Blue Jay Journal"
• information and tour updates for Saturday

Saturday, June 21

8:30 am

• Cars leave the Gallagher Centre towards morning tour destinations

Lunch

• Bagged lunch at the picnic area near the Dune Trail (Good Spirit Provincial Park)

1:00pm

• Cars leave for afternoon tour desitations

5:30 pm 

• Cocktails

6:00 pm

• Banquet

7:00 pm

• Presentation by Myrna Pearman, Biologist, Writer, Photographer and Naturalist. Myrna's presentation is titled "Beauty Everywhere: Tales of a Wandering Photographer"

Sunday, June 22

9:00am Annual General Meeting at the Gallagher Centre (coffee and tea provided)

All tours will be offered morning and afternoon. When registering, please select a morning tour and an afternoon tour.

Tour A - Bluebird Banding Along Anaka Trail: The Yellowhead Nature Society (YNS) happily inherited the Anaka Trail and continue the work that was started by Joyce and Bill Anaka in 1984. Over 40 years later the Bluebirds still return and make the nest boxes along the Good Spirit Community Pasture their home. Tour leaders: Lorne Scott and Rob Wilson

Tour B - Road Allowance Habitat - For All to Enjoy: This will be an opportunity to explore and enjoy the healthy and diverse municipal roads that are protected as part of a partnership project with the RM's of Wallace, Orkney, Saltcoats, Cana and the Yellowhead Nature Society (YNS). A perfect activity for birders and plant enthusiasts. Tour leaders: YNS members

Tour C: - Exploring the Dunes( Good Sprit Prov. Park): This will be an easy 1.6 km walk along the Dune Discovery Trail at the south end of Good Spirit Lake; a chance to explore the fragile and fascinating ecology of shifting dunes. Your leaders will provide some interesting history and explain how a trading post ended up as a Provincial Park as well as some of the important, ongoing water management that is needed to keep the lake healthy. Tour leaders: Nancy Bird, YNS member and Jesse Nielsen, Manager of the Assiniboine Watershed Stewardship Association.

The host hotel for the weekend will be the Yorkton Home Inn and Suites which is located near the Gallagher Centre. A block of rooms is beging held at the Home Inn and Suites until May 20 (homehotels.ca/yorkton). Please mention Nature Saskatchewan when booking your room.

Alternately, camping is available at York Lake Regional Park (306-782-7080) and the City of Yorkton Campground (306-786-1575)

Registration will be open soon!