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. […]
Scat : Greek skat-, stem of skōr (genitive skatos) “excrement,” from PIE *sker- “excrement, dung” (source also of Latin stercus “dung”), on the notion of [...]
White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) consume a lot of different things. It seems everytime I see some Deer browse, it appears to be a new forb, shrub, or tree which I […]
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. […]
For the past four years there has been a bit of a conundrum at the tracking apprenticeship. There has been a theory passed around to be argued and analyzed, challenged […]
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 […]
This past weekend with the Earth Tracks Wildlife Tracking Apprenticeship I got to host a mini-workshop all about skulls. It was a chance to share some of my enthusiasm about […]
On a weekend in late September, we gathered together as part of the Plants Apprenticeship 2022 to explore what some call the “utilitarian” side of these awesome beings. Starting as [...]
