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2022 Grouse Watch Season

By Steph Weizenbach / 29 April 2022

Book your personal experience between Apr 15 – May 15 with the Wainwright Wildlife Society

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Arctic Seabirds as Sentinels of Change

By Steph Weizenbach / 28 April 2022

Recording Now Available
Red Deer River Naturalists

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Why are bluebirds blue?

By Steph Weizenbach / 25 April 2022

Learn what makes bluebirds blue and download an entire guide to become a bluebirder!

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How does a seed turn into a plant & why don’t all seeds germinate?

By Steph Weizenbach / 24 April 2022

Learn how plants grow and why not all seeds germinate.

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My BIG Alberta Backyard – Midland Provincial Park

By Steph Weizenbach / 24 April 2022

Midland Provincial Park, just outside Drumheller, is most famous for the fossils that have been discovered there.

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On the Trail of Disjunct Alpine Plants from Alberta to Ontario

By Steph Weizenbach / 24 April 2022

BY ASHLEY HILLMAN

It’s Day 4 on the trail. It’s humid, hot, and did I mention humid? Our packs are impossibly heavy with food, camping gear, and sampling equipment. I wish there was someone else to blame for deciding to mix backpacking with field sampling, but unfortunately it was my idea. I have already cut myself on a rock and slipped into the frigid waters of Lake Superior as we struggle down the coastal hiking trail of Pukaskwa National Park. But all this suffering has rewarded us with just what we were looking for: plants! 

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Shall We Gather at the River?
Irrigation and the Future of Southern Alberta’s Rivers

By Steph Weizenbach / 24 April 2022

BY LORNE FITCH

In the heat dome and severe low flows of 2021, our canoe left smears of colour on several barely submerged boulders of one of Alberta’s prairie rivers. These low water levels had me reflecting on the recent scheme by southern Alberta’s irrigation sector to expand irrigated acreage. I thought of the old hymn, “Shall we Gather at the River.”

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Making Citizen Science Count

By Steph Weizenbach / 24 April 2022

BY RICHARD SCHNEIDER
As naturalists, we love to watch wildlife, but if we want wild species to remain viable we need to actively contribute to their conservation.

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Coulee Cleanup, Shoreline Cleanup, and Invasive Weed Pulls

By Steph Weizenbach / 22 April 2022

Volunteer recruitment through The Helen Schuler Nature Centre in Lethbridge

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Breeding Bird Survey (BBS)

By Steph Weizenbach / 20 April 2022

Edmonton Nature Club Bird Studies
Recording Now Available

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