The problem with aggregates

by Caroline Schultz   A strong wind whipped in heavy grey clouds, and the threat of rain was imminent as several hundred shivering people queued up at the edge of a woodlot north of... Read Full Article

Looking to the future

By Caroline Schultz Over the course of Ontario Nature’s 80-year history, we have fought numerous battles for conservation. With you, we have witnessed many wins for the environment... Read Full Article

The Ottawa Valley in autumn

A guided tour of nine great nature getaways in eastern Ontario. By Caroline Schultz & Mark Stabb   Eastern Ontario naturalists sometimes jokingly refer to the phenomenon of... Read Full Article

The Ottawa Valley in autumn: Appendix 1

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On guard for the moraine

By Caroline Schultz Formed 11,000 years ago by retreating glaciers, and stretching 160 kilometres end to end, the Oak Ridges Moraine is one of southern Ontario’s most distinctive... Read Full Article

What good is nature?

More than 100 children told us the answer in Ontario Nature’s first writing contest for kids ESSAY CONTEST INTRODUCTION By Caroline Schultz When I was a child, our summers on Ireland’s... Read Full Article

Why we must protect Malcolm Bluff Shores

By Caroline Schultz Those of you who work so diligently to defend this province’s rich natural heritage will understand that the acquisition over the next two years of a 423-hectare... Read Full Article

Oasis of nature deserves new status

By Caroline Schultz Rouge Park, North America’s largest urban park and a sanctuary for plants, animals and people, may become a national park if Ontario Nature and other groups have... Read Full Article

How much for that ecosystem?

By Caroline Schultz How much does a boreal forest cost? What about the entire boreal region? Naturalists tend to argue that we shouldn’t put a price tag on biodiversity, because the... Read Full Article

The diversity of life

By Caroline Schultz Hurray for polar bears! Hurray for old-growth forests! Hurray for beaver ponds! And yes, hurray even for the elegant stinkhorn (a fungus) and the flooded jellyskin... Read Full Article

The big picture

By Caroline Schultz This issue of ON Nature is focused on climate change against the backdrop of the December 2009 conference in Copenhagen on worldwide strategies to combat global... Read Full Article

Local matters

Conservation efforts at home really do help save the world by Caroline Schultz With every passing year, the environmental maxim “Think globally, act locally” takes on added meaning.... Read Full Article

New ideas on old growth

by Caroline Schultz It has been more than a decade since old-growth forest conservation took centre stage as a critical conservation issue in Ontario. But it is essential that we look... Read Full Article

Battling the bureaucracy

by Caroline Schultz The lush Ogoki Forest encompasses 10,876 square kilometres of boreal forest in northwestern Ontario and provides superb habitat for woodland caribou, a species at... Read Full Article

Teach our children well

by Caroline Schultz Outdoor education is a particular area of concern to Ontario Nature. Severe cutbacks in the 1990s closed outdoor education centres and reduced outdoor education... Read Full Article

Great beginnings

by Caroline Schultz The business of conservation requires perseverance and endurance. Our goals are mostly long-term and can take years to achieve. Usually the conservation community... Read Full Article

Natural connections

By Caroline Schultz When in downtown Toronto, Ottawa or London, it’s sometimes hard to imagine that we were at one time a predominantly rural society. At the turn of the 20th century,... Read Full Article

In House

Nature’s economy by Caroline Schultz As a billion birds are winging their way northward, many of us are feeling the tug of migration hot spots such as Point Pelee, Long Point, the... Read Full Article

This issue

The decline of biodiversity by Caroline Schultz For wildlife, it is triage, pure and simple. When a scientific body declares that a species is “endangered,” the label alerts society... Read Full Article