Can you solve the following riddle? What do the these ingredients create: 3 communities + 36 participants + 12 trainers + 4 coordinators + 4 restoration sites, when allowed to age for 8 days? Tom Biebighauser presents "Why We Pulled the Plug on North America," a history of wetland loss. If you guessed a journey …
Continue reading Stewards of the Sea-to-Sky: Wetlands Institute 2012
Last week was a pretty big one for the BCWF Wetlands Education Program: the Sea-to-sky Wetlands Institute was hosted in Squamish & Pemberton as a free week long crash course designed to help educate citizens on how to successfully tackle their own restoration/conservation projects. As most of us are well aware, media plays a large …
What the heck is a herpetologist? Probably not what you think. When Elke Wind tells people that she’s a herpetologist she often gets suspicious looks until she explains that she studies reptiles and amphibians. She’s been in the field for more than 15 years and completed her Masters in the 1990s at the University of …
The beginning of April brings the return of migratory wildlife, blossoming trees, and of course, the spawning of many amphibian and aquatic species. Our selection this week is appropriately titled "Whose Eggs are These?". Often-times it can be difficult to identify amphibian eggs, since many of them look similar. This week, we consulted Herptologist Elke …
The Western Painted Turtle may be the most widespread turtle in North America, but in some areas of BC they are considered endangered. Painted turtles enjoy basking in the sun and nestling into the muddy bottoms of ponds, wetlands, and marshes. A little known fact: their ribs grow as a part of their shell which …
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