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Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Publication: Celebrating Over Ten Years of Community Science

November 13, 2023–Noah Cole

Join Jenna Quinn, Ontario Nature’s Conservation Science Manager, and a panel of researchers and contributing authors to learn about the Ontario Reptile and Amphibian Atlas (ORAA) publication. The ORAA is ...

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Searching for Gnebigoog on Bkejwanong Territory

April 5, 2023–Guest blogger

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Community Science•Indigenous Relations•Reptiles and Amphibians•Stewardship and restoration

The wondrous world of snakes, or gnebigoog, as we say in Anishinaabemowin, was explored last July when Ontario Nature’s Brittney Vezina and Christine Ambre met up with a group of ...

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Rattlesnakes and Loss

January 13, 2023–Gideon Forman

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Reptiles and Amphibians•Species at Risk

Massasauga rattlesnake © Joe Crowley

I’ve been thinking about Samuel Beckett and Ontario rattlesnakes. There used to be two species in the province, the Massasauga and the timber. But for decades there’s only been one. ...

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Blazing the Trail in Snake Habitat Restoration – What We Learned A Year After the Prescribed Burn at Stone Road Alvar Nature Reserve

March 24, 2021–Jennifer Ho

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Habitat•Nature Reserves

Eastern gartersnake © Maria Papoulias

Located on Pelee Island, Ontario Nature’s Stone Road Alvar Nature Reserve is part of a larger complex of conservation lands that are also owned by the Essex Region Conservation Authority ...

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Snake Field Guide

March 7, 2020–Ontario Nature Staff

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Reptiles and Amphibians

Eastern gartersnake © Joe Crowley

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