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Partnering With Ranchers to Conserve Vulnerable Grassland Wildlife

  • March 3, 2023
  • by John Wilmshurst
When the job is this big, you need good partners Many of Canada’s most iconic and vulnerable animals — wild bison, Pronghorn, Prairie Dogs, Burrowing Owls, Sage Grouse, Swift Foxes…
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Paving New Pathways for Canada’s Pollinators

  • March 1, 2023
  • by CWF
We’re inviting our pollinators back into our neighbourhoods and rights-of-way corridors! Bees, flower flies, butterflies, moths, wasps and beetles are pollinator species that support our economy and environment. These unsung…
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Case Study: Ranchers’ Perspectives on a Successful Grassland Conservation Incentive Program

  • January 26, 2023
  • by CWF
Cattle ranchers in the Milk River watershed, Saskatchewan, participated in a federally funded program by taking voluntary actions to support rangeland sustainability, habitat conservation and recovery of species at risk.…
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Walking in a Winter Wonderland

  • January 20, 2023
  • by John Wilmshurst
Working on a winter science project not long ago, my team was struggling to find the groups of elk we needed for the study. Elk were around, but well hidden…
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The Canadian Grasslands Project

  • October 26, 2022
  • by John Wilmshurst
There’s a concept in Conservation Biology, called Ecosystem Services, that has been around for a while and continues to grow in popularity and importance. What is it? Ecosystem services are…
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Carbon Trek — The Central Grasslands Living Lab

  • October 6, 2022
  • by John Wilmshurst
In one of my favourite episodes of Star Trek (the TV series), the crew of the Starship Enterprise encounters an alien lifeform that is utterly confusing. It’s a blob made…
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Little Niche on the Prairie

  • September 13, 2022
  • by John Wilmshurst
One way or another, we all adapt to our environment. We know this when we get taken from it: a country kid learning to use an urban transit system, or…
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Picking Favourites on the Prairies

  • August 23, 2022
  • by CWF
Nydia Chowdhury is a summer insect field technician working with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s terrestrial wildlife team. Working for the Canadian Wildlife Federation alongside Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada was a…
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Native Mixed Grass Prairie
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Stranger in a Strange Land

  • August 19, 2022
  • by CWF
Daniel Vladimir Nava Toxqui is a summer insect field technician working with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s terrestrial wildlife team. As a wildlife biologist, your office is pretty much anywhere you…
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Summer of Work and Learning at Grasslands National Park

  • August 14, 2022
  • by CWF
Joshua Exner is a summer student who worked with the Canadian Wildlife Federation’s grasslands team. I was fortunate to work as an Insect Field Technician for the Canadian Wildlife Federation…
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