On September 25, employees of the Science Department went on a field trip to the southernmost point of the NNP Dnister Canyon in the vicinity of Okopy village, Borshchiv District. The researchers collected the materials for Volume I of the Nature Chronicles they are preparing, described several geomorphological formations and hydrological objects, and took inventory of the flora and vertebrate and invertebrate fauna along the Okopy – Bilivtsi sections of the Dnister.