DEPARTMENTS
5 | This Issue
The path forward.
By Caroline Schultz
7 | Earth Watch
Mushroom workshops, Fighting phragmites, A new breeding bird atlas, Protecting the Holland Marsh
And more…
![Cape May warbler and beautiful spring blossoms](https://onnaturemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/20090507_164446_IMG_2099-Setophaga-tigrina_Tom_Bentley_v2.jpg)
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Feature
18 | A Tree Woven Through Culture
The steady decline of black ash is exacting a heavy price – not only on Ontario ecosystems but also on Indigenous traditions.
By Raechel Bonomo
Feature
24 | Woodland Wonders
Wildflower expert Brian Carson has made a specialty of finding (and cultivating) rare trillium varieties and mutations – before developers’ bulldozers can wipe out their woodland habitats.
By Brian Banks
![Double trillium grandiflorium](https://onnaturemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/double_trillium_Brian_Carson_ON_Nature_Spring_2020.png)
![Crying Wolf, canine scapegoats, feature article](https://onnaturemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/Crying_Wolf_spread_ON_Nature_Spring_2020_Mike_Lentz.png)
On the cover
30 | Crying Wolf
A government proposal casts wolves and coyotes as scapegoats for declines in moose populations. But, as is so often the case, the offenders are probably closer to home.
By Brian Banks
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![A broad-winged hawk perches above the North Gwillimbury Forest](https://onnaturemagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/broad-winged_hawk_North_Gwillimbury_Forest-©-Grant_Horton.png)
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