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63ClimateGate: the Oxburgh Review
I normally pass up on absolutely any opportunity to comment on anything to do with climate change, but sometimes I just have to make an exception. And this is one of those occasions: Lord Oxburgh’s panel review, the second of three, of the...
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69Black Cottonwood; giver and keeper of life
Poplars have always held a particular fascination for me ever since, as a youngster, I discovered how essentially indestructible they are. The occasion was a nursery set-up in Holland, consisting of greenhouses (glass houses or hot houses (if...
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66Epitaph for a Cougar
the Mahan Trail Cougar is dead. Shot last week, by the Conservation Officer and some houndsman from up the Coast. A couple of nights before she had killed two goats and eaten one, came back the following...
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64Plant hunting in winter
winter is not usually thought of as the most exciting or productive time for looking at plants, at least in the temperate northern hemisphere. After all the lack of sunlight and the cold cause everything to be...
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69Darwin's worms (and mine)
now the Darwin-hype of last year (2009) is over we can return to some real, simple and enjoyable biology, rather than grandiose theorizing about evolution, natural selection (which must be a prime competitor...
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662009 Salmon returns
2009 was dominated by news headlines and articles describing a disastrous collapse of salmon returns and stocks in BC. As usual, all sorts of reasons were given or recycled, from excessively warm water to...
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80Rough Skinned Newts Jeopardy
I have become the proud adoptive care-giver of some Rough Skinned Newts. Adopted not so much by the newts; they didn’t have much of a choice. A couple of kids had caught them, showed and gave them to me. Now...
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78Douglas Squirrel; the ultimate BC resident
The time is rapidly approaching when we will see comparatively little wildlife for a few months here on the Sunshine Coast. The summer has gone, all of our larger wildlife is stocking up to get ready for the winter and in a few months time will...
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75Swimming with Salamanders and Western Painted Turtles
although it is close to the Lower Mainland, the Sunshine Coast remains a unique and in many ways uncharted area, full of surprises to anyone who wants to see and spend a bit of time here. I was yet again forcefully reminded of this over the...
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71Poppies, Giant Hogweed and other desirable aliens
earlier this week, driving leisurely along one of the back roads in Gibsons on my way to a job I had on, I suddenly spotted the rather magnificent flower heads and oversized leaves of Giant Hogweed growing...
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