DEPARTMENTS

28 | FON News
FON establishes legal Pledge Bank; parks, conservation areas face serious threats.

31 | Queen’s Park/From Ottawa
Heritage Act can preserve areas; IJC seeks immediate action on Great Lakes water quality.

32 | Around Ontario
Park master plan delayed; developers affecting Taylor Creek Ravine; special report on raptors; colour-marked shorebirds; James Bay hydro project; Rattray Marsh update; Elora Gorge battle moves to Queen’s Park.

36 | Bird Report
Summer 1976.
By Clive E. Goodwin

FEATURES

4 | The Inner Beauty of Water Plants
By J. Michael Bristow

8 | Superior: The Haunted Shore
Book by Wayland Drew and Bruce Litteljohn.
By Douglas Brown

11 | Shooting the Sturgeon
Armed to the teeth with cameras and canoes.
By Ross Howard

18 | Four Centuries of Animal Art in Books: Part I
By David M. Lank


ON Nature Magazine December 1977 cover

ON Nature magazine is an award-winning quarterly that brings readers closer to nature by exploring Ontario’s natural species and spaces, and providing insight on pressing conservation issues.

The cost of an annual subscription is $50. If you are a senior citizen (65+) or a student, you can subscribe for a discounted rate of $40.

For just $9.95, you can purchase recent issues of our award-winning magazine. We have back issues available online dating to 1970!

For more information or to purchase a back issue, please contact Kamran Minai, at 416-444-8419 ext. 232 or kamranm@ontarionature.org.

Photos © Jack Webb and John Shaw