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Environment

Camouflage and the Vision of Birds

How good is your eye? Take our camouflage challenge and test your knowledge.

Nov 25, 2015

Talking Turkey

Turkeys – especially rival tom turkeys can be highly entertaining to watch at this time of year.

Nov 4, 2015

Goldenrod and Asters

Asters and goldenrods are tremendously important wildlife plants.

Oct 12, 2015

Honeybees

We need to learn more about honeybees and other pollinators so we can contribute intelligently to the conversation about their health and well-being.

Sep 16, 2015

The Beautiful and Damned – Dying Trees

Ash is doomed. Beech and butternut hover on the brink.

Sep 11, 2015

How ‘Clean Fill’ Became a Dirty Word

With a proposal to flatten his farm fields, a Mono farmer stepped squarely into the centre an environmental hornets’ nest.

Sep 11, 2015

Hummingbirds

The migration of ruby-throated hummingbirds to and from the tropics puzzled early birdwatchers.

Aug 12, 2015

Butterflies

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful and interesting creatures on earth and can be easily attracted to your garden.

Jul 8, 2015

Places to Grow turns 10

The Growth Plan was an attempt to rein in the low-density sprawl that was a signature of development in the 1980s and 1990s.

Jun 16, 2015

10 Years of the Greenbelt

Ontario launched the Greenbelt Plan’s 10-year review, which is taking place concurrently with reviews of the Niagara Escarpment Plan, the Oak Ridges Moraine Conservation Plan & Places to Grow.

Jun 16, 2015

Finding Balance in Caledon: The Urban/Rural Divide

In less than two decades Caledon’s population will be 75 per cent urban. Can its countryside values survive the shift?

Jun 16, 2015

Tick Talk

Lyme disease was once all but unknown in Ontario. But as the offending ticks migrate north, health agencies warn it’s just a matter of time before Headwaters feels their bite.

Jun 16, 2015