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Imagine you are a moose. You have big ears, a soft nose and a stomach with four parts to digest your cellulose-rich food. From hoof to shoulder, you measure 1.8 […]

i thank You God for this most amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which […]

On January 6th, the tracking group headed to Bell’s Lake. The Saugeen Conservation Authority owns over 1,500 acres of land around this beautiful lake. Bell’s Lake includes wetlands and a […]

Belwood Lake is a 12-kilometre-long reservoir created by the construction of Shand Dam in 1942. The reservoir was built to prevent flooding for communities downstream and to regulate water flow [...]

Saturday, September 30th, 2023 – National Day for Truth and Reconciliation A screech owl was calling from the spruce trees as I write this – a lovely sound this evening. […]

The Hills are Alive… On Sunday, May 7th the tracking group met at the Lockyer Pits in Orangeville for a day of adventuring on rolling sandy trails in the rain. […]

On the first weekend of December, the Boyne River shared with me… A campfire to warm cold hands Two steep hills (in beautiful deciduous forests) Three porcupine dens Four deer […]

Imagine donating more than 300 acres to Ontario Nature for land preservation. Well, the Krug brothers Howard and Bruce Krug did just that. Kinghurst forest in Grey county is 370 […]

A walk through Mono Cliffs and Hockley Valley is a walk through time. What a beautiful place to reflect on this weekend’s theme of landscape tracking. In his book Nature […]

It was a Friday evening after the August full moon – the Sturgeon Super Moon. This moon is named after giant fish that were traditionally caught in the Great Lakes […]