Adult Whooping Crane
Credit: Bates Littlehales
It appears to be bad year for the last natural migrating flock of whooping cranes.
For those of you unfamiliar the whooping crane, there are 3 total migratory flocks, but two of them require human assistance to guide them in their migration – this wild flock flies annually between Wood Buffalo National [...]

Map of St. Croix, Virgin Islands
Location “A” is Great Pond – click for larger map
Here’s another update on Hope, the Whimbrel with the satellite tracker I blogged about in my previous post -
After an exhausting 100 hour, 3,500 mile flight over the open ocean, she has temporarily settled in at Great Pond, a listed Bird [...]

Whimbrel
Credit: James H. Robinson
Recently I received a note about a Whimbrel named Hope.
Hope is equipped with a satellite transmitter and is on a remarkable journey. She was fitted with a transmitter on Virginia’s Delmarva Peninsula in the spring. From there she flew north and spent the summer in or near the Boreal regions of Quebec, Ontario and [...]

 
Winter Wren
Credit: Tom Vezo
There is something mysterious to me about the Winter Wren. Its song is loud, long, exuberant, and, yes, so beautiful with its rollicking trills and warbles that it can startle you. And this from a bird barely larger than your big toe. Camping next to one would only be recommended for the earliest [...]

Clearwater River, in northeastern Alberta
Credit: Garth Lenz
While somewhat overshadowed by the Kimberly-Clark announcement last week, which I blogged about in a previous post, another potentially positive story came out of Canada recently. Last week the Alberta government, the province home to the infamous tar sands, announced the possibility that it might support protecting important areas of Boreal [...]

Image borrowed from greenpeace.org  
Sometimes it seems like positive stories about the environment are few and far between, but today a bit of good news: Kimberly-Clark, maker of Kleenex, Scott, and Cottonelle, announced it will finally update its environmental policy regarding logging and forestry practices. For years, Kimberly-Clark has used pulp from virgin, intact Boreal [...]

Matt Medler, a former BSI-staffer, was a guest blogger for this blog during his trip to Northern Ontario earlier this summer. Since so many of you enjoyed his trip reports, I thought I’d share his trip from a few years ago to Northern Quebec. He took some great photos and audio recordings, some of which [...]

Woodland Caribou
Credit: Wayne Sawchuk, Northern Images
As I’m sure you’ve figured out by now, solving the climate change crisis isn’t exactly a simple equation. While emissions reduction mandates are a must for any international standards, protecting forests (which store large quantities of carbon) from development is equally critical in fighting climate change in the short-term. Around 20% [...]