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Autumn in July

by Allan Goddard Hello readers! I have had numerous...

Noreen Young’s early drawings on exhibit at the Sivarulrasa Gallery.

by Edith Cody-Rice Don’t let your daughter go...

The Tunic Show at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

by Edith Cody-Rice On Saturday August 1, the...

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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Autumn in July

by Allan Goddard Hello readers! I have had numerous inquiries from concerned residents in Almonte about the fall look of many trees in town. In fact, all the trees appearing like...

What is that … Serious Sipper?

The wildlife we see at the cottage eat a wide variety of foods, from seeds, nuts, insects, and snails to sap and nectar, amongst many others.  Perhaps it is...

Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust secures new Clyde Lake Nature Reserve

Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust secures new Clyde Lake Nature Reserve with strong community and partner support The Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust (MMLT) is pleased to announce the successful acquisition...
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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.

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...

Sustainable living: Canada’s environmental report card

 by Theresa Peluso  In last month's Green Talk column, I suggested a number of ways that we Canadians can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions in...

Life on the edge of the shield: the push and pull of development, part 1

By Brian Barth There is an inescapable relation between landscape and human activity. The earth is not a tabula rasa, but continues to render a...

Backyard birds: February 1 2014

by Brent Eades I must admit I haven't been paying my yard enough attention lately what with the unprecedented irruption of Snowy Owls, and quite...

Rural community opposes paintball business in Drummond / North Elmsley

by Neil Carleton The first people to arrive Monday night were seated by 5:00 p.m.  When the public meeting was called to order a few...

Winning student posters to be displayed to fight plastic bag scourge

By Theresa Peluso Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists On your next outing in Mississippi Mills, check out the artwork on display in libraries, arenas, shops, and other...

Half trees

by Neil Carleton   To anthropomorphically paraphrase the second verse of the Beatles 1965 song ‘Yesterday’ is a good way of introducing the roadside shady characters...

Complete Birds of North America is now at the Almonte library

 by Neil Carleton You may have seen some of them on December 30th if you were traveling within a fifteen kilometer radius of Watson’s Corners. ...

Sustainable Living: Reducing Our Greenhouse Gas Emissions

by Theresa Peluso During this time of heated discussions at the international level between developed and developing countries about reducing our carbon emissions, it's embarrassing...

Lanark birds on Facebook

by Brent Eades Here's something I've been remiss in not mentioning in the course of my birding posts in the Millstone: the fact that Lanark...
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