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Grasses

Grasses have flowers just like roses or daisies.

Jun 20, 2008

Wetland Restoration? Leave it to Beaver

If beavers are permitted to help reverse wetland losses, frogs will be among the happy beneficiaries.

Mar 23, 2008

Field of Schemes

There’s a population boom coming to Headwaters. Where will all the people go and what will it mean for our countryside?

Mar 23, 2008

Enough of Zoomburb

When I moved to Caledon from Toronto in 1974, feeling all starry-eyed and back-to-the-landish, as befitted the mood of the times, the population of the newly minted “town” was just…

Mar 23, 2008

Bursting bubbles, boosterisms and commoner sense

Boost “Deficit spending is already beyond belief, and the country is hugely indebted, as are households. The housing bubble has already burst. The Federal Reserve has made clear it will…

Mar 23, 2008

Eastern Meadowlark

Eastern Meadowlarks decline 24% in 20 years.

Mar 23, 2008

Hares

In the spring breeding season hares indulge in boxing matches.

Nov 15, 2007

Tarantula hawks, beneficial beavers and the mollusk option

Human Burnout “The trends in Vital Signs 2007-2008 make it overwhelmingly clear that while Earth itself is almost certainly not dying, many of the planet’s ecological systems are. And the…

Nov 15, 2007

Owls

With piercing eyes and haunting cry, so flies the lord of the midnight sky.

Nov 11, 2007

The Menu is the Message

Feast of Fields connects the links in the local food chain in an annual festival of fun and flavour.

Jun 21, 2007

Web Masters

“What would you rather have, spiders sitting in webs where you can see them, or bugs wandering around undetected?” asks Tom Mason.

Jun 21, 2007

Bullfrog Power

Purchasing Power! Bullfrog Power’s green electricity is hot in Headwaters, but is it worth the premium price?

Mar 22, 2007