5 | This Issue
We Reap What We Sow. By Caroline Schultz
6 | Earth Watch
- Gananoque Lake Nature Reserve biodiversity
- Valuing wetland benefits including water quality
- A call for stewards at the Wilfrid G. Crozier Nature Reserve
- Black ash species at risk
- The truth about the housing crisis
- Making urban nature count, near-urban nature
- Forests: A front line defence against climate change
- And more…
18 | The Forgotten Fruit
Few people have heard of it. Fewer still have tasted it. The pawpaw, Ontario’s mango, has a rich Indigenous history but a vulnerable future in the province. By Jade Prévost-Manuel
22 | The Scoop on the Buzz
The whining, chirping, whirring and buzzing of insects are indelible parts of Ontario’s summer soundscape. Here is how grasshoppers, cicadas, crickets and katydids fill backyards and meadows with song. By Lesley Grant
28 | What is Eating Ontario’s Forest Floors?
The earthworms that are welcome in people’s gardens are wreaking havoc on forests. How did Ontario become filled with invasive worm species? By Ian Coutts
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