Coalition-SGSL

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Mark your calendars- The next Steering Committee meeting will be held on Friday, September 10, 2026 at 10am. Everyone’s welcome to attend!
Scholarhship and Sustainability Award Winners…. During the AGM 2004 awards dinner this past spring, the Coalition-SGSL president, Éric Giguère was pleased to recognize the following individuals for their involvement with sustainability:
Karen Johnson was awarded a five thousand dollar scholarship in the student category for her masters thesis at the University of Prince Edward Island. She will be studying the impact of coyotes, an introduced species, on the ecological niche currently occupied by red fox. In the past 200 years, the coyote has steadily extended its range from the northwest corner of the United States to P.E. I. via ice flows in adaptation to changes caused by human encroachment. The unique situation of P.E.I. in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence makes it an ideal laboratory to study the impact of the introduction of new predators in established ecosystems.
Gary Schneider was awarded the individual category prize for his outstanding personal commitment and work with the Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project in Orwell, Prince Edward Island. A joint effort of the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island and the Sir Andrew Macphail Foundation, the project combines protection of the natural area along streams with wildlife enhancement, forest stewardship, watershed protection, environmental education and ecological research. The sale of native trees and shrubs from the Macphail nursery helps fund school tours, guided walks, breeding bird surveys and planting seedlings at schools, on community land, for forest restoration, and within riparian zones. Because of his work on school properties and his relationship with watershed groups and land-owners, Gary Schneider is a much sought after and respected source of knowledge on sustainable forestry practices.
	The Conseil regional de l’environnement Gaspésie - Îles-de-la-Madeleine was awarded the community group prize for their work in environmental education. The CREGÎM work to increase awareness and provide advice to stakeholders in their area to ensure that their region continues to develop while protecting its natural heritage. Their activities include raising the concerns of local residents to the forefront to ensure that environmental issues are resolved in the spirit of sustainable development. By creating this network of stakeholders, CREGÎM has been successful at helping people resolve issues at the local level.
New Coastal Erosion Committee is formed… Due to the enormous interest surrounding the AGM 2004 conference theme, Coastal Erosion and its Impact on Habitat and Coastal Infrastructure, a new Coastal Erosion Committee was formed. The committee, which is co-chaired by Mireille Chiasson (Fisheries and Oceans) and Jean-Pierre Savard (OURANOS) is a sub-committee of the Science, Research & Habitat Working Group. They are presently developing a work plan which will focus on the gathering of information on coastal erosion (research, policies, data gaps, etc). This information will then guide the planning of workshops that will most likely be held in year two of the committee’s mandate (2005-2006). See the documents section to review meeting minutes.