<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><b>Free Winter Tracking Series hosted by Friends of Redtail Society</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Friends of Redtail Society will be hosting a winter tracking series on Sundays in the month of February. The event is free and will take place at 1 pm on February 7, 14, 21 and 28.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:14pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The event invites participants to see animals through the eyes of the track.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> Winter is an excellent time to study nature’s signatures. Each afternoon we will track local fauna, including Deer, Coyote, Fisher and Snowshoe Hare, which live on and around Friends of Redtail land, near Scotsburn, Pictou County. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Friends of Redtail Society Board Members, Billy MacDonald and Joella Arsenault will lead the tracking series. MacDonald is an experienced tracker who has spent much of his life in the woods attuned to observing nature and animal signs. In the mid ‘80s he studied tracking with internationally renown, Tom Brown Jr., and in 1991 he founded Redtail Nature Awareness Camp near Scotsburn, offering wilderness experiences for children, youth and adults. Arsenault is a nature photographer and former attendee of Redtail Nature Awareness and has co-led programs with MacDonald for the past decade.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">“The track is the animal’s signature,” says MacDonald. “</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">The track is a doorway to a world that for the most part remains invisible in modern society, that of the untamed Beings. Tracking expands our world and activates an ancient past and a part of our brain we no longer rely upon.”</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Times"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Please dress for the conditions, proper footwear is essential. If the snow pack continues snowshoes may also be necessary. Each week we will meet at the bridge on the MacBeth Road by Craig’s Way at 12:50 pm.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Please join our event on Facebook and share it with your network, </span><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="http://on.fb.me/1Oi9j57" target="_blank">http://on.fb.me/1Oi9j57</a>.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">For more information or directions call Billy MacDonald at <a href="tel:%28902%29%20485-4688" value="+19024854688" target="_blank">(902) 485-4688</a> or visit <a href="http://friendsofredtail.ca/" target="_blank">friendsofredtail.ca</a>.</span></p><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">--<div>Michelle Ferris<br><span style="font-size:12.8px">Friends of Redtail Society</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">RR#2 Scotsburn NS</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">B0K 1R0</span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;border-collapse:separate"><span style="font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px">The Friends of Redtail Society is a grass-roots, non-profit organization formed in 2006 to pursue a community-based solution to an industrial forest clear cut that was scheduled to take place in an upland watershed in western Pictou County. </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Through the group's actions, a successful fundraising and awareness campaign was mounted and the Society was able to purchase the land, becoming both a guardian and student of the forest. </span></i></span><i>Through its "Sheltering Forests" campaign, the Society is engaging community in the process of reclaiming, re-visioning and restoring its relationship with the forest. </i></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Learn more about our vision at <span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:13px"><a href="http://friendsofredtail.ca/our-vision" target="_blank">http://friendsofredtail.ca/our-vision</a></span><br>Make a gift <span style="border-collapse:collapse;font-size:13px"><a href="http://friendsofredtail.ca/sheltering-forests" target="_blank">http://friendsofredtail.ca/sheltering-forests</a></span><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Friends-of-Redtail-Society/128631873862252" target="_blank">We're on Facebook</a><div>Follow us on Twitter <a href="http://twitter.com/FriendsRedtail" target="_blank">@FriendsRedtail</a><br><div><br>We are a registered charity and donations are tax deductible.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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