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Sign Installers with the EALT

By Nature Kids / 22 August 2022

Help the Edmonton and Area Land Trust prepare JBJ McDonald for it’s grand opening by installing some signs.

Saturday, Aug 27, 2022
10:00 am – 2:30 pm

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Wes Olson Presentation & Book Signing

By Nature Kids / 22 August 2022

Friday, September 9th

Join famous Bison Expert and artist Wes Olson to celebrate the launch of his new book!

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Rare Vascular Plants Book Signing

By Nature Kids / 22 August 2022

Sept 10, 2022

Come celebrate the release of the 2nd Edition of Rare Vascular Plants of Alberta with a free book signing!

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Nature Central Speaker of the Month

By Nature Kids / 22 August 2022

Join Nature Central for their September Presentation: Celebrating Our Wild Alberta Parklands.

Sept 22, 7:00 pm

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Long eared owl from Pixabay

Owl Banding with Beaverhill Bird Observatory

By Nature Kids / 22 August 2022

Join the Beaverhill Bird Observatory for an exclusive evening of Owl Banding!

Every Thursday – Sunday from mid-September to October.

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From Pixabay

Invasive Weed Pullers

By Nature Kids / 20 August 2022

Join Weaselhead and Glenmore Park Preservation Society to help remove Spotted Knapweed along the river’s edge.

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The Implications of Shifting Baselines on Nature Conservation

By Steph Weizenbach / 22 July 2022

BY LU CARBYN

Ecosystems change over time without any tampering by humankind. Human impacts, however, have caused massive changes over a short period of time that have resulted in serious environmental concerns, including loss of biodiversity.1 We are all aware of the global issues of habitat loss and wildlife extinction around the world, which call for intervention and leadership from governments, academics, and researchers. However, we do not need to look so far as the destruction of tropical forests of Brazil or Borneo; we can see these issues right here in Alberta.

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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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Flying Buffalo: Establishing new bison populations via air transport

By Steph Weizenbach / 5 April 2022

Tues, April 12 at 7 PM
Registration required

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