Wind-thrown Ironwoods: tales from a splintered land
The forest at Iroquois Heights has a unique composition and a strong diversity of plants, mammals, and birds. Forest fragmentation is a cause of this uniqueness but also makes the […]
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North-end Traintrack Weeds: building healthy communities
The afternoon is full of sunshine, warming our cheeks into squinting smiles. Today there’s a street festival on James Street North, and it’s easy to get caught up in the […]
Streetlight to Starlight – Oct 2010
On a cool autumn evening, under huge streetlights that blot out the sky, we’re standing in the parking lot of University Plaza, at the edge of Dundas. Tonight, the urge […]
Water, Limestone, and Suburbs – May 2010
On the surface, we see only the beautiful, strangely pitted and patterened limestone outcrops known as karren, and the occasional grassy, bowl-shape in the ground — a sinkhole. But from […]
Story of a Scar – Apr 2010
Slow trickles of water seep out of the softened soil from everywhere in our watershed. Drops collect and build in power. Water bursts from long-frozen escarpment rocks, racing towards the […]
Knowing the Land is Resistance 