Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada
O U R N A T U R A L H E R I T A G E NATURAL HERITAGE COLUMN SERIES AT HALF WAY POINT Thursday, June 25, 2009 It was a daunting task deciding what to include in a natural heritage presentation…
STALKING THE WILD STUFFBy Terry SpragueQuinte Cuisine Cookbook2005 Although I seem to remember the cows on our dairy farm giving thistles a wide berth when grazing, the late Euell Gibbons during his days of grazing actually went to a fair bit of trouble to…
GHOSTS OF MAIN DUCK ISLAND PASTby Terry SpragueKingston Whig-Standard2003 From an airplane at 4,000 feet, the long limestone shoals that flank Main Duck Island’s south side give the impression that the island is moving. It is these same shoals that spelled disaster to mariners…
ME AND OTHER ANIMALS by David Hall I share my home with animals, haphazardly and unintentionally. I thought at first that animals were a nuisance and with usual urban logic thought they should be dealt with. Call someone. I resisted this tendency preferring a laissez-faire…
O U R N A T U R A L H E R I T A G E ONE THIRD OF ONTARIO SPECIES ARE AT RISK Thursday, June 11, 2009 They nested in apple trees, and they nested in the hawthorns and quite often…
LIFE ABOUNDS IN A ROTTING LOG June/July, 2009 issue There is an old log on one of the hiking trails at Algonquin Provincial Park that dates back to 1890. Loggers back then had felled a giant white pine, and after taking off the top…