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Doing the Carlton
Harry Townson-Doucette is a participant in Group 7 of the Canadian Conservation Corps. I didn’t know what to expect going in to Stage One of the Canadian Conservation Corps (CCC)…
On Point
A few barbed comments about the amazing porcupine and what we might learn from studying its quills Surely, when the choice of our national animal was made, the beaver just…
Why I Am Choosing to #DoMoreForWildlife
I was born in the late 1980s in a small log house built by my father on the edges of the Mississippi River in a small village called Appleton. My…
How To Set Up a Natural Playground
Including natural elements in a playground is now considered the best thing we can do for our kids. Children themselves say the spaces are more fun. It is evident that…
Scrambled Eggs: What Shell Colour Tells Us
Our understanding of dinosaurs today makes what we knew 50 years ago primitive. Decades ago, all we had to learn about dinosaurs and their lives was fossils: bones, tracks and…
Hola Monarcha!
Guest blogger Donna Cook is a nature interpreter who writes about her recent visit to the Monarch Butterflies’ overwintering grounds in Mexico. Lying down in a high mountain meadow looking…
Devastating Downfall for Western Monarchs: A Harbinger of Things to Come?
All along the California coast in fall and winter, there are places you can visit where colonies of adult Monarch butterflies overwinter. At the ocean’s edge, dozens or even hundreds…
Adventure Where You Least Expect It
Alexandra Falla is a participant in Group 2 of the Canadian Conservation Corps. I arrived back home after an intense and knowledge-filled summer with McGill at the Gault Nature Reserve.…
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Santa’s Got Company
The Arctic tundra is a fascinating area between the edge of the boreal forest and the permanent ice caps closer to the North Pole. This areas spans across Yukon, the…
From Such Great Heights: Learning to Let Go
Silvana Botros is a participant in Group 5 of the Canadian Conservation Corps. I stood at the base of Mount Galatea on the last day of my Canadian Conservation Corps…
