"Caribou Hunting in New Brunswick -- 'In at the Death,'" Anonymous, 1863. Published in the Illustrated London News, January 18, 1863.

Last Thursday night the Fredericton city council held and irregular meeting to correct elements of a bylaw debuted one week ago. It would allow parts of the UNB woodlot to be rezoned for development.

The reason for the emergency meeting was clear: there were errors on the woodlot map that required correction. The revised version, however, made some notable omissions.

According to an observer, the revised map does not include the Corbett brook area of the woodlot marsh that may be staked for development. Additionally a second wetland along Regent street is now coloured in. The map makes no allusion to buffer zones that would prevent the sedimentation and poisoning of these ecosystems.

Conservation efforts remain what they are, attempts to reverse the corrosion of natural spaces and their destruction for the sake of profit. A greater struggle, however, is against those that before signing the papers and turning the keys in bulldozer ignitions, cease to believe that these places exist.