• Climbing Poison Ivy in eastern Ontario!

    Climbing Poison Ivy in eastern Ontario!

    On 23 February an errand took us down a small gravel road off County road #1 in Stormont Dundas &...
  • 30 Years Later

    30 Years Later

    Our ‘big project’ for 2010, revisiting and recataloging many of the sites we’ve visited over the last three decades
  • Observing Giant Urban Slugs

    Observing Giant Urban Slugs

    In November I received an e-mail from a resident of Etobicoke, asking for information about large pumpkin coloured slugs encountered...
  • How to find edible wild plants

    How to find edible wild plants

    Some notes following a session of teaching edible wild plants to campers
  • How to take a trip

    How to take a trip

    For those who rejoice in the reality of the world, the sadness of modern transportation is almost overwhelming. Literal myriads...
  • Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills

    Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills

    See our giant aquatic Salamanders at the only place in Ontario where they’re known to be easily viewed during their...
  • How to do a Bridge

    How to do a Bridge

    Our goal has been to visit every bridge and lake outlet we can get to, assess the use of the...