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Update your bookmarks. Ecologue is moving to BCRainforest.com!
Moon Willow Press’s Ecologue has moved to BCRainforest.com. Please update your bookmarks and head over there for newer articles.This site will stay up and static just for a little while to ensure that social media links won’t dead-end. I’m excited about the new domain since it reflects not just Ecologue’s regular articles but the studying and writing I’ve done about the Great Bear Rainforest. Moon Willow Press’s Ecology News section will move to the new domain … Read entire article »
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Great Bear Rainforest Youth Paddle
Part 5 of our Great Bear Rainforest series, Journey in the Making, is now online. I interviewed … Read more »
The holiday tree: real vs. artificial?
Christmas tree tradition goes back a long way and originated in ancient times when people decorated their … Read more »
Gitxsan controversy over deal with Enbridge
Two opposing stories have come out in the last couple days about the Gitxsan First Nation opposing … Read more »
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Swim guide
I’ve personally spent a great many hours of my life gathering and mapping data for swimming/fishing locations … Read more »
Cure for the common cold…zombie survival aid…or blood wizard?
I don’t know about you, but I’d like to have an anti-virus if there’s ever a zombie … Read more »
Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) virus in wild Pacific salmon
Note: See the Comments section below for a few updates. What is infectious salmon anemia (ISA), and is … Read more »
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New article in Great Bear Rainforest series looks at sea life around the raincoast
Moon Willow Press’s 7th addition to the Great Bear Rainforest series is now online. The GBR articles explore several aspects of the critical raincoast habitat, which has been threatened by logging, mining, and other activities and is now up for grabs as a pawn in the fight to export Alberta oil sands to China. In the most current article, Serengeti … Read entire article »
Earth every day
The very first Earth Day took place in 1970 and was founded by Gaylord Nelson, a senator from Wisconsin, as a result of a large oil spill in Santa Barbara, California. Back then, Republicans and Democrats, rich and poor, and farmers and city folks all came together–20 million Americans strong–to call for more sustainable lifestyles and a clean environment. This … Read entire article »
Mourning the loss of Doug Chapman
Douglas George Chapman, April 8, 1936 – April 4, 2012 Fraser Riverkeeper and the greater environmental community are profoundly saddened by the loss of Doug Chapman, famed prosecutor of polluters, who passed away in Vancouver. Doug Chapman, Fraser Riverkeeper’s co-founder and Riverkeeper, passed away Wednesday April 4th at his home with loved ones by his side. Chapman was a defender of natural environment … Read entire article »
Noon Creek Hatchery’s fingerling festival needs volunteers!
Passing this on from Noon Creek Hatchery: Noon Creek Hatchery’s annual Fingerling Festival is being held on Saturday, May 5th, 2012, from 11am – 3pm, and they need volunteers! They couldn’t hold such a hugely successful festival without their fabulous volunteers. They’re expecting over 4,000 people of all ages, over 50 environmental exhibitors, and they will be releasing 40,000 young salmon. … Read entire article »
CETA Environmental Assessment Review
The Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) is open to comments before April 25, 2012. Scroll to the end of the article for where to send comments. Potential environmental impacts may exist with increased trade, changes in tariffs, and the removal of non-tarff barriers. According to Vi Taylor at Environment Trade, “The CETA is one of the most comprehensive … Read entire article »
Great Bear Rainforest series part 6: the old-growth woodlands
The newest article in Moon Willow Press’s Great Bear Rainforest series is published: The Old-Growth Woodlands. This part examines old-growth forest processes, particularly those in the Pacific temperate rainforest. Old-growth forests are some of the world’s largest carbon sinks and are comprised of climax communities, evolution’s steady-state gems, which are only reachable for undisturbed ecosystems that have evolved for many … Read entire article »
Threats to the Burrard Inlet
Today I joined my friend Alison and her daughter Elena for lunch in Deep Cove, near Panorama Park, on the Burrard Inlet. Vancouver is experiencing a cool spring, and the air was frosty, even though the sun peeked out from the clouds occasionally. Deep Cove lies at the entrance to Indian Arm on the north shore of Vancouver. Snow glistens … Read entire article »
Discovery Passages up for BC Poetry Prize
Congratulations to Garry Thomas Morse for becoming a finalist to receive the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Discovery Passages, an exploration of the author’s ancestral Kwakwaka’wakw people, set in contemporary poetics. One of the central motifs linked within the poetry is that of the potlatch, a traditional ceremony that was banned in BC in 1884 as an amendment to the … Read entire article »
Fresh idea for a rainy BC: the art of shucky beans
Snapped green beans It may seem to some of you in British Columbia that spring is going to be as slow in coming as was last summer. Days are rarely sunny, mostly rainy or gray, and the chill of the air hasn’t left us yet. I’ve been doing everything I can to at least imitate what spring and summer mean, including … Read entire article »
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