1st four hour tour of the 2012 season

Have you experienced the cool Bay of Fundy air on your skin, felt the crunch of rocks under your feet, and tasted a deliciously fresh home-made lunch, all while learning about 300 million year old fossils? At the Joggins Fossil Cliffs, you can.

Our four hour tour package includes the three E's: exploration, education, and enjoyment. Previously held just once a month, these four hour tours have increased in availability!

Explore the Classic Section of the Joggins Fossil Cliffs with an experienced guide and discover million year old tetrapod footprints, large fossilized trees, and primitive seed ferns.

Included in the tour is a gourmet, freshly made lunch from our own Roundhouse Cafe. This lunch includes a drink, sandwich, fruit, and a treat! Our chefs, Joyce and Corey, can accommodate dietary preferences.

Our first four hour tour of the 2012 season will be taking place on Sunday, June 10th at 9:30am. To book a spot on this tour, or to enquire about booking another tour, please contact us at 1-902-251-2727, extension 231, or through e-mail at bookings@jogginsfossilcliffs.net

We look forward to exploring with you! 

Adopt A Highway May 2012

On Friday, May 25th, ten Joggins Fossil Institute staff and three community volunteers, cleaned 5 km of highway between Joggins and Maccan. The entire clean up took approximately three and a half hours and produced over 50 bags of garbage, and 10 bags of refundable.

In Cumberland County, our solid waste is separated as follows:

Compostable Organics (including fruit and vegetable scraps, leaves, weeds, paper towels, napkins, tea bags, coffee grounds, boxboards like cereal boxes, and excludes meat, fish, bones, dairy products, fat, and grease). These are put into your backyard composter or in your green cart.

Recyclables (beverage containers, jars, bottles, most plastic bags and packaging, tin or aluminum cans, corrugated cardboard, newsprint, glossy paper, egg cartons, milk containers). These mustbe put in clear, non-coloured bags or transparent blue bags.

Residual garbage (anything other than recyclable material, backyard compostable material, leaf and yard waste, construction and demolition debris, scrap metal, hazardous materials or any materials banned by the Municipality or The Dept. of the Environment). All residual garbage must be in clear, non-coloured bags.

Scrap metal can be disposed (for no charge) at Cumberland Central Landfill, and at the scrap metal areas of Transfer Stations (Wallace, Wentworth, Greenville, Southampton, Crossroads, Advocate, River Hebert, and Pugwash). Construction and demolition debris can also be disposed at these Transfer Stations.

Please see Cumberland County's website for more information on solid waste management in our area. (http://www.cumberlandcounty.ns.ca/solid-waste.html).

It is also great to follow the six R's (Yes! There are 6!): RETHINK, RESPECT, REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, and RESTORE.

Let's try to keep our roadways, forests, and communities clean and put our solid waste where it belongs! 

Orange Explorers!

On Tuesday, May 15th, Dr. Martin Gibling, Professor of Earth Sciences at Dalhousie University, led interpreters from the Joggins Fossil Cliffs on a four hour exploration of the cliffs and beach.

Beginning at Lower Cove, the team learned about the different cycles that took place approximately 300 million years ago - swampy forests that have been compressed into thin coal seams; river channels and streams transformed into sandstone; and dry conditions that are now represented through reddish rocks in the cliffs.

During the hike, the group identified fossilized trees in the cliffs, tetrapod footprints and Arthropleura trackways, and discovered multiple seed ferns! It was an informative and interesting hike.


Dr. Gibling was awarded Earth Sciences Professor of the Year in 2011 and is consistently one of the most accessed authors in Earth Science. The Joggins Fossil Institute would like to thank Dr. Gibling for sharing his time and knowledge!

Adopt a Highway Spring Clean Up

Its time for Spring cleaning! We're not talking about your house or yard, we're talking about one of the main stretches of highway leading to our favorite World Heritage Site. Once again the Joggins Fossil Institute is gearing up to conduct it's Adopt a Highway Clean Up of 5 kms of Highway 242 known as the Maccan Woods.

We are reaching out and asking for help. We are looking for volunteers to help clean this stretch of highway at 8:00am Friday, May 25th. If you are interested in volunteering please call 902-251-2727 ext 225 or send and email to info@jogginsfossilcliffs.net.

The Canadian Society of Zoologists Visits Joggins!

 

On May 9th the Joggins Fossil Centre welcomed our largest group to date: nearly 160 zoologists partook in a field excursion to the Centre and Cliffs. Despite the drizzle, it was a fabulous day and the Joggins Fossil Institute would like to thank the Canadian Society of Zoologists for visiting us and making this a record-breaking visit!