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Celebrating Solstice Together, June 20

Paddle with Indigenous elder. Drumming, Songs...

Civitan Club Father’s Day breakfast, June 21

Celebrate dad with a legendary breakfast! Almonte...

Sheila Schroeder — obituary

  Schroeder,  Sheila Rose (nee Smith) Passed away at...

Science & Nature

Backyard Birds

by Brent Eades

Environment

For the Birds

Bird photography by Cheryl Baxter.

Green Talk

Nature

Shady Characters

What is That?

A series about local wildlife.

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What Is That … Early Arrival?

Every year, after making it through a winter full of blustery weather, we are happy to see the reawakening of mother nature, especially at our cottage on White Lake. ...

Report on MVFN talk: “Forgotten Canoe Routes of the Canadian Shield”

April 28, 2026 The Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists (MVFN) held their annual Spring Gathering and welcomed a presentation by well-known canoeist, explorer and writer Hap Wilson.  He described the exhilarating...

Decluttering as environmental action

Emma Brown Everything we own will eventually have to go somewhere. How much stuff do you own? Do you ever think about where it will go when you no longer...
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Backyard Birds

by Brent Eades

Environment

For the Birds

Bird photography by Cheryl Baxter.

Green Talk

Nature

Shady Characters

What is That?

A series about local wildlife.

Avoid Internet Explorer web browser, say US and UK governments

by Brent Eades Government agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have advised web users to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser,...

Arbor Day Centenarian

Many times during my explorations I’ve wondered how old this tree or that one is. Some shady characters catch my eye because of their...

Backyard birds, April 27 2014

by Brent Eades It has been a while since my last post. This is in part because there haven't been a lot of new birds...

For the Birds: New Beginnings

by Cheryl Baxter Happy Easter Monday! It's finally spring!  The migration of many different birds has begun.  As I am out and about hiking and even...

The boundless benefits of biking: An interview with Jeff Mills

 by Theresa Peluso "A bicycle's performance, in both biological and mechanical terms, is extraordinarily efficient. In terms of the amount of energy a person must...

Life on the edge of the shield: The push and pull of development, Part 3

by Brian Barth  Part 1 of the series is available here; click here for part 2 Regulating density is the number one tool used by urban...

Backyard birds, March 23 2014

by Brent Eades So it's spring, 15 cm of snow yesterday notwithstanding. I've had one new spring bird since my last post, a Grackle who...

A well grounded pine tree

by Neil Carleton Even though a lightning flash is only about an inch, or 2.5 centimeters, in diameter, and lasts only a fraction of a...

Backyard birds, March 14

by Brent Eades It has been a busy few weeks at the office, and I haven't been taking as many backyard photos as usual. I've...

What does your garbage reveal about you?

Archeologists are ecstatic when, in the course of excavating a historical site, they come across a centuries-old garbage dump.  From a pile of fossilized...

Life on the edge of the shield: The push and pull of development, Part 2

By Brian Barth Part one of this series is available here. Economists generally agree that the extraction and production of raw materials from the land are...

How will Mississippi Mills grow over the next 20 years?

by Tineke Kuiper This is usually a question that Town Planners ponder while they develop well-integrated approaches for future growth, yet it should really be...

Backyard birds, February 17

by Brent Eades The Great Backyard Bird Count is underway once again. I spent a few hours watching my yard on Saturday and ended up...

Please try that number again

by Neil Carleton In recent years, it seems, the words trees and electricity have been most often used together during news stories about storms and...
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