Environment

Protect Ontario’s land and drinking water, stop the Melancthon mega quarry. View Adrienne Arsenault’s report from CBC’s The National.

Cardinals appear at feeders most frequently at dusk and dawn. Perhaps during the twilight hours they are less visible to predators.

A lovely shrub that waxwings find irresistible in late fall and early winter is a native holly called “winterberry”.

Birds are drawn to feeders like Saturday morning coffee drinkers to Tim Hortons. The presence of birds in the winter landscape is life-affirming.

In a move reminiscent of the infamous family-planning measures introduced in 1976, residents of Shanghai are only allowed one dog per household.

Our rural roads and historic schoolhouses may have ended up as dull as suburbia in the fall.

Consider giving a holiday gift as vast and beautiful as our Canadian wilderness – beautifully packaged and small enough to fit under a tree!

What has our impact been on native North American wildlife? I think we know the answer to that.

Can a green gravel certification solve the controversies over aggregate in Ontario? It had better, because it may be the only way out of our current mess.

We revel in their beauty, relax in their shade and are calmed by the soothing sound of their leaves soughing in the wind.

Long considered the best friends of gardeners, earthworms are proving to be formidable enemies of the forest.

History traditionally has ranked alchemists with counterfeit artists, huckster quacks, snake oil salesmen, and witches. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.