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A New Generation Of Advocates For Wildlife Is On The Way
I visited Sussex Elementary School on November 13 to give a bat presentation to a large group of 2nd graders. They were very enthusiastic and loved looking at the bat…
A Child’s Right to Nature
by Mike Bingley Twenty-five years ago, children were recognized as having unique rights as part of the Convention on the rights of the child. They were recognized as having…
Chaudiere Falls Bathymetry work with University of Ottawa
As the eel project has been wrapping up throughout the fall, we have had a couple finally field days below Chaudiere Falls dam complex completing bathymetry work. Bathymetry is the…
Schooled by Nature
While we don’t know the official count yet on the number of sockeye salmon that returned to Adams River this year, the 2014 Salute to the Sockeye Festival was a…
CWF has arrived at the Salute to the Sockeye Salmon Festival and so have the sockeye!
[Wade Luzny, CWF’s CEO/Executive Vice-President taking a moment to check out this spectacular event] [Sockeye in the Adams River] Although the salmon were a bit late they have now arrived.…
It Won’t Be Long!
[PHOTO CREDIT: Thinkstock] It won’t be long until millions of sockeye salmon return to the Adams River and what a spectacular sight it will be! With 2014 being a dominant…
The 7th Annual White-nose Syndrome Workshop
[PHOTO CREDIT: KAREN VANDERWOLF] I just got back from the 7th annual White-nose syndrome (WNS) workshop held this year in St. Louis, Missouri. These meetings are important because there is…
Update: Volunteers, Range Testing and Night Tracking
Our eel team is still busy wrapping up a great field season! Most recently, we’ve had the opportunity to have some of the Ottawa Riverkeeper Riverwatcher volunteers join us for…
We’re Learning More About The Fungus That Causes White-nose Syndrome!
[PHOTO: PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS ISOLATES FOLLOWING 28 DAYS OF INCUBATION] I recently had a paper published in a scientific journal. We showed that isolates of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (the fungus that causes…
A Research Trip to Anticosti Island, Quebec
[PHOTO CREDIT: D.F MCALPINE/NB MUSEUM] I recently went on a research trip to Anticosti Island, Quebec to study the caves there. Our goal was to determine if the white-nose fungus,…
