DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Issue Paper Makers: Who says we need trees? By Victoria Foote 8 | Earth Watch Why the snake won’t cross the road; diamonds in the far, far north; the sprawl crawl. 28 | Urban Nature To many, it’s just lichen. To those who know, this strange hybrid of fungi and algae […]
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ON Nature Magazine Summer 2005
DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Issue Safe Places: Is anywhere truly protected? By Victoria Foote 8 | Earth Watch Mining-friendly provincial policy; PWC drivers run amok; let your children go au naturel. 36 | Field Trip Native grasses. By Dan Schneider and Peter Pautler 41 | Inside Ontario Nature Meet our new executive director; tell us […]
ON Nature Magazine Spring 2005
DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Issue One Big Contributor: Saying goodbye to Gregor Beck. By Victoria Foote 8 | Earth Watch Oak Ridges Moraine update; no EA for proposed quarry along Lake Superior; caribou population in decline. 15 | Profile Miracle Worker—Absent for the province since the 1700’s, the trumpeter swan is back thanks to Harry […]
ON Nature Magazine Winter 2004
DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Issue New Arrivals: Are all invasive species bad all the time? By Victoria Foote 8 | Earth Watch Saving our sand dunes; bird watching in the boreal forest; clotheslines in your neighbourhood. 15 | Profile Bearing Witness: Brian McHattie watches unhappily as Hamilton proceeds with its expressway through Red Hill Valley. […]
ON Nature Magazine Autumn 2004
DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Issue A Fine Balance: Is there a meeting ground between environmentalists and the aggregate industry? By Victoria Foote 8 | Earth Watch Mining along Lake Superior’s shoreline; new chemical compounds found in gull eggs; an energy boost for Ontario. 15 | Profile Man With a Plan: Superintendent Robin Reilly wants Quetico […]
ON Nature Magazine Summer 2004
DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Issue Who You Are: Our members tell us what they think. By Victoria Foote 8 | Earth Watch Why some exotic plants thrive; curbing urban sprawl; is bottled water really cleaner than tap water? 15 | Profile The Domino Effect: Professor Yan and the spiny water flea that changed an entire […]
ON Nature Magazine Spring 2004
DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Issue Decision Time: We need to stop the ongoing degradation of our fresh water. By Victoria Foote 8 | Earth Watch Join the spring owl survey; protest the Red Hill Creek Expressway; stop the quarry in rare bird habitat; protect the escarpment from development. 15 | Profile The Riverkeeper: Lara Van […]
Seasons Magazine Winter 2003
DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Issue The Last Issue of Seasons: The name of the magazine is changing, but the content remains the same. By Victoria Foote 8 | Earth Watch Asian longhorned beetle threatens our forest; proper EAs needed even for green power; river rafting down the Groundhog; caribou and gray wolf habitat at risk; […]
Seasons Magazine Autumn 2003
DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Issue Paper Grows on Trees: Why can’t Seasons be printed on FSC-certified stock? By Victoria Foote 8 | Earth Watch Ontario adds 109 OLL sites; fungus could decimate flowering dogwood; invasion of the emerald ash borer; Crothers Woods revival; pesticides in our rivers; government slow to reinstate much needed land tax […]
Seasons Magazine Summer 2003
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House Saying Goodbye: After five and a half years, it’s time for a new view. By Nancy Clark 8 | Earth Watch Reporting on the OLL; the decline of the goblin fern; species-at-risk list grows; alarming decrease in the number of boreal bird species; profiling bad fish; on the […]
Seasons Magazine Spring 2003
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House Wilderness with rules. By Nancy Clark 8 | Earth Watch That’s one cool rock; barrier-free wilderness; Ouellette’s miscue; natural garden pest controls; Marshfield Woods saved; court supports Grey County group on groundwater extraction; Ontario’s species championed by provincial auditor; outdoor education is endangered. 15 | The Seasoned Pro […]
Seasons Magazine Winter 2002
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House Big, black birds: Why do we like some animals and not others? By Nancy Clark 8 | Earth Watch Teenagers can take action; giant swallowtails overwinter in Niagara; salamanders count on trees; the dirt on road salt; saving the Carden Alvar; province may loosen logging rules; builder makes […]
Seasons Magazine Autumn 2002
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House Front porch wildlife viewing: Wildlife watching at home has its own rewards. By Nancy Clark 8 | Earth Watch Ontario Living Legacy parks; protecting Lake Superior’s waters; monarchs will recover from Mexican freeze; what’s a tree worth. 13 | The Seasoned Pro For the love of turtles: Biologist […]
Seasons Magazine Summer 2002
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House Canoe trip: How my four-year-old weathered two days of rain in Bon Echo. By Nancy Clark 8 | Earth Watch Site protects rare species; tracking turtle smugglers; keeping mosquitoes away naturally; Canada fails to protect nests; turn off your car engines; Ontario curriculum not green enough; lawn pesticide […]
Seasons Magazine Spring 2002
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House ‘Tis the season when familiar creatures, including magazines, are seen in a new light. By Nancy Clark 8 | Earth Watch Birding in the Arctic; Algonquin wolves safe for now; reptiles need help; baby bird rescues; trees to brag about; walking in poets’ footsteps. 15 | The Seasoned […]
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Seasons Magazine Winter 2001
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House What’s wrong with being passionate? By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch Puddles need protection; birds decline in Pickering forest; what’s happening with the Oak Ridges Moraine; Mid-Niagara Peninsula highway threatens returning species; Pelee Island nature refuge; Newmarket wetland saved; watchdog cites weak government performance; planning better for […]
Seasons Magazine Autumn 2001
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House My own private Kyoto: How I plan to stop driving my car – at least not as much. By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch Not-so-smart growth; battles to watch; moraine development freeze; seed source matters; Ontario land trusts growing; Dombind’s never-ending saga. 17 | This Season A […]
Seasons Magazine Summer 2001
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House The Globe and Mail wants me to build in the woods. By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch Proposed quarry threatens endangered loggerhead shrike; tearing up the wilderness; water extraction may suck wetland dry; coastal habitat menaced by logging road; mother of the marsh: Fran Westman; Atlas off […]
Seasons Magazine Spring 2001
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House FON celebrates 70 years. By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch Conservation reserves need better protection; Algonquin wolf under threat; Simcoe ANSIs: death by a thousand cuts; no mining at Mellon Lake; logging road through Bruce forest stalled; Carolinian Canada’s big picture; Presqu’ile Park Plan released – at […]
Seasons Magazine Winter 2000
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House The Christmas Bird Count: a family legacy. By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch Roadwork threatens rare species in conservation reserve; saving Toronto’s old-growth; important bird areas dedicated; golf course to be built in Marshfield Woods; the waiting game. 16 | This Season Biologist Chris Jones mucks around. […]
Seasons Magazine Autumn 2000
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House Calling all nature writers. By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch Quarry threatens conservation reserve; don’t shoot; Oak Ridges Moraine: Queen’s Park does nothing; proposal subdivision too close to Awenda; logging underwear; have you seen off-road ATV damage? 18 | This Season Ben Cheechoo wants natives and non-natives […]
Seasons Magazine Summer 2000
DEPARTMENTS 4 | View from Locke House Are you afraid of the dark? By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch Stand-off on the Oak Ridges Moraine; let’s go frog watching; conservation authorities consider golfing proposals; conservancy buying up Algoma Highlands; Feds to provide some protection for species-at-risk; who will protect Ontario’s species-at-risk? 17 | This […]
Seasons Magazine Spring 2000
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House Why I Love Birds. By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch The battle to protect the Oak Ridges Moraine; proposed highway threatens wetlands; remembering a friend of the bluebird; the return of the elk; RCGA drops plans to build in Bronte park; development opposed at Riley Lake; FON […]
Seasons Magazine Winter 1999
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House Who knew we had reserves? By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch A deadly harvest for monarch butterflies?; kids interact with nature at the ROM; group advocates better wolf protection; coalition fights for Richmond Hill Moraine; naturalists rescue rare praire. 17 | This Season Veteran activist Bruce Hyer […]
Seasons Magazine Autumn 1999
DEPARTMENTS 5 | View from Locke House Holding back the concrete at Leslie and the 401. By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch Picton watershed saved; after Lands for Life: what now?; Rondeau Bay kept clean; reduce emissions: car share; compost this; 31 additional species now at risk; Lyme disease vaccine approved; Pickering signs easement […]
Seasons Magazine Summer 1999
DEPARTMENTS 5 | In This Issue The birth of new parks, but the slow demise of conservation areas? By Nancy Clark 6 | Earth Watch Forest Accord underpins Lands for Life deal; Ottawa risks species-at-risk; Arnprior residents bid for old-growth forest; survey suggests decline in forest birds; efforts to save softshell turtle slow but steady. […]
Seasons Magazine Spring 1999
DEPARTMENTS 5 | In This Issue Volunteers. A vital investment in times of change. By Graham Bryan 6 | Earth Watch New wildlife act in place; spring bear hunt cancelled; wolves threatened in Pukaskwa; Creditview Wetland bought from developers; Rouge tributary protected under “historic” accord; grapes, not cottages. 19 | This Season Elementary school teacher […]
Seasons Magazine Summer 1998
DEPARTMENTS 5 | In This Issue Summer vacation and the living is, well…By Nancy Clark 6 | EarthwatchVanishing leopard frogs; close-proximity birding; Conservation Authority woodlot logged? 16 | Letters 17 | This Season Can golf courses turn green by going brown?By Victoria Foote 33 | Insider Behind the scenes at FON. 41 | FON Trips & Talks 46 […]
Seasons Magazine Spring 1998
DEPARTMENTS 4 | Letters 5 | In This Issue 6 | Earth WatchClearcuts in Algoma; expanding Woodland Caribou Park and protecting Algonquin wolves. 15 |This Season Veteran trappers, Bucky and Dale Olivier, give their take on Lands for Life.By Doug Bell 40 | Insider Behind the scenes at FON. 54 | Things To DoProspecting for wilderness.By Bruce […]
Seasons Magazine Winter 1997
DEPARTMENTS 6 | Earth Watch MNR withdraws from fisheries agreement; logging and Lands for Life; Domtar toxins spread. 13 | This Season Kay McKeever continues her work with damaged owls. By Moira Farr 32 | Insider FON award nominations; name that tree. 46 | Reflections A tenant’s eye view. By Stan Long FEATURES 16 | […]
Seasons Magazine Autumn 1997
DEPARTMENTS 6 | Earth Watch Garden fit for a monarch; wayward caribou; Windigo Bay road; hiding lead from swans; more roads in parks; game becomes wildlife. 13 | This Season Bob Passmore raises the steaks in this organic harvest. By Cynthia Macdonald 36 | Insider Bert Miller Nature Club wins a award; FON annual report. […]
Seasons Magazine Summer 1997
DEPARTMENTS 6 | Earth WatchRed Hill Valley road goes through an Environmentally Significant Area; purple loosestrife news; Ontario’s new protected areas; breeding trumpeter swans; Niagara plan changes hands; Presqui’le plan looks for public input. 13 | This SeasonA black fly specialist takes the sting out of June.By Margaret Webb 41 | InsiderPreserving Lyal Island; 350 […]
Seasons Magazine Spring 1997
DEPARTMENTS 5 | This Season This special issue takes a look at a new conservation strategy for Ontario’s landbirds that will protect birds before they get into trouble. By Margaret Webb 6 | Earth Watch How green is your classroom?; nature untaxed; Harris government undermining environmental protection; Nature’s Best protected area strategy; Wabakimi park to […]
Seasons Magazine Winter 1996
DEPARTMENTS 8 | Earth Watch Stalled guidelines hurt Ontario’s caribou; just published: FON’s guide to forest management; international spotlight aimed at Temagami; bald eagles number up, loggerhead shrikes down; our last chance for roadless wilderness; nonprofit corporation to hold forestry licence in Muskoka; new rules apply to forest management. 35 | Insider FON open house […]
Seasons Magazine Autumn 1996
DEPARTMENTS 8 | Earth Watch Ontario guts more environmental laws; faster action needed for species at risk; the sorry saga or Monarchs and Milkweed; municipality stands up for the Escarpment; Ontario’s new Planning Act in effect; wildlife is more than “game and fish”; update on blear-bear hunting; manage your woodlot for wildlife. 38 | Insider […]
Seasons Magazine Summer 1996
DEPARTMENTS 8 | Earth Watch MNR—then and now; Red Cloud Cemetery saves virgin prairie habitat; woodlot tax-rebate program restored; hydro proposal still threatens Kam River. 35 | Insider FON’s Dorcas Bay Nature Reserve sold to Parks Canada; building a boardwalk at Petrel Point Nature Reserve; we have a web site. 38 | Reflections The envoy. […]
Seasons Magazine Spring 1996
DEPARTMENTS 8 | Earth WatchConflict over mining in Temagami; farmers seek hunt on sandhill cranes; Omnibus Bill allows sale of Conservation Authority land; Cedar Point proposal goes to OMB; Bill 20 soft on protecting environment; the Morris Tract may yet be saved. 31 | Birder’s NotebookPeregrine numbers soar.By Nancy Mahony 41 | InsiderBoard sets goals […]
Seasons Magazine Winter 1994
DEPARTMENTS 2 | President’s Page Land trusts taking off in Ontario. By Adam Thomson 7 | Earth Watch Municipal power shift weakens natural heritage policy; call for changes to Ontario’s weed act; anarchy over wetlands policy implementation; MNR takes further steps to protect old growth; unhappy trails: snowmobiles changing face of rural Ontario; Wabakimi’s fate […]
Seasons Magazine Autumn 1994
DEPARTMENTS 2 | President’s Page Pleased to meet you. By Adam Thomson 7 | Earth Watch Temagami: Just another piece of Crown land; sustaining Crown forests—or timber?; Toronto Islands under attack; revisions to the planning act need revisions; old-growth red and white pine: protected or not?; revised escarpment plan released; Megisan Lake: best option no […]