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A Holiday Feast
Christmas isn’t quite Christmas without getting stuffed to the gills, is it? It certainly isn’t hard to do when you have two or more Christmas dinners to attend in the…
Love Your Lake is Naturalizing Shorelines
With funding from DFO’s Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnerships Program, shoreline property owners involved in the Love Your Lake program have been naturalizing, or re-planting, their shorelines with native plants. Love…
Early Bird Migration
My backyard bird feeders are in near constant use during the day now, with a lot of different and new birds. This past weekend we had five yellow-shafted…
Forest Fires in Western Canada
Our thoughts go out to those of you who have been affected by the wildfires in Northern Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia this summer. Our thanks go out to those…
New Report Confirms Kids Should Spend More Time Outdoors
The newly released report provides clear evidence that kids are spending too much time learning indoors. The 2015 ParticipACTION Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth, gives Canadian…
Human Interactions On The Water
MANY SPECIES of Canadian marine animals migrate into our waters every year. As we use the same waters, it is our responsibility to be mindful of these marine animals, their…
Winter Bat Surveys Are Almost Finished
We were recently in the news! We have almost finished our winter bat surveys and found only 12 bats so far. Some of these were visibly infected with white-nose syndrome,…
Winter Bat Counts Begin
[Jordi Segers searching in vain for hibernating bats. PHOTO CREDIT: KJ Vanderwolf] We have started our winter bat counts in New Brunswick caves and mines and we were joined for…
It’s Bat Appreciation Day!
Here to celebrate is guest blogger, Jordi Segers, National White Nose Syndrome Coordinator at the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative. You might think to yourself: “why is there such a thing…
Can Some Bats Survive WNS?
[We saw 4 porcupines in various caves this fall. Don’t get too close! Photo Credit:KJ Vanderwolf] We have finished our fall bat surveys and found 22 bats hibernating in caves…
