Premier Dalton McGuinty has appointed three academics to the
Committee on Species at Risk in Ontario.
They are Joanna Freeland of Trent University, Daniel Heath
of the University of Windsor and Dan Kraus, manager of conservation science at
the Nature Conservancy Canada.
The committee advises the government on its Species at Risk
programs which have recently been controversial among farmers for measures to
protect Bobolinks and Eastern Meadowlarks, including controls on when hay
fields and pastures can be mowed.
