Ontario Nature Blog

I can’t say that I’m a regular reader of Ontario Beef magazine, but an article in the February 2012 edition by Gerald Rollins caught our attention. Rollins, a beef farmer and director on the board of the Ontario Cattlemen’s Association, may well be affected by certain elements of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). More specifically, ...

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(left to right) Anita Caveney, accepted on behalf of Sandy Levin; Fraser and Owen Darling; Harry Lumsden; Dieter Shoenefeld; Ken Reger; Jenny Bull; and Mark Van Patter, on behalf of The County of Wellington (Photo Credit: Noah Cole) Ontario Nature recognized the exceptional contributions of nine individuals and also the County of Wellington to natural ...

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The take-home message from the 2012 Ontario Wetland Conference, hosted by Ontario Nature and partners, is: Strong policy, good science and dynamic communication strategies will improve the state of Ontario’s wetlands. And yes, despite the loss of more than 70 percent of southern Ontario’s wetlands in the last 150 years, there’s hope. As I pulled ...

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As discussed in an earlier post on this blog, we get lots of questions from people asking for advice about their day-to-day encounters with nature. I joined Ontario Nature this summer and am thoroughly enjoying fielding some of those queries. Through twitter, a farmer told us that he had not seen any snakes on his ...

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After my recent article in ON Nature about the cooperation between Ontario cattlemen and conservationists to save the bobolink, readers contacted me to find out if there was a way of actually locating the nests in hay/grass fields. Some had watched their hayfields for years, and had always seen bobolinks, but never been able to ...

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