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Building relationship and intimacy with the land through wildlife tracking and naturalist learning.
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Determining Direction of Travel on a Fisher Trail — to know the land
“Which way them critters goin’?” To this day it can be tricky to tell the direction of travel through deep snow. For this exploration in determining the direction of travel I’ll use a snowed in Fishe...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Jumping Mouse Tracks vs. Vole Tracks — to know the land
It seems differentiating between Jumping Mice and Voles in my area is a persistent struggle. I have confused them on study calls and most recently on another TCNA Track and Sign evaluation (earning me...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Early Days In The Lives of White-tailed Deer Fawns — to know the land
There was a sudden movement directly under where my foot was about to land. Something large and pale brown jostled about and I quickly called out and stumbled back. It took me half a second to realize...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Identifying Skeletal Remains of a Common Loon — to know the land
While out tracking with the Earth Tracks Widllife Tracking Apprenticeship along a stretch of beach at Lake Huron at Saugeen First Nation we came across the fairly decayed carcass of a medium sized bir...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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A Short List of Bugs I have Eaten — to know the land
I am very much interested in the edibility of invertebrates. Recognizing that most of the world commonly consumes insects and other inverts, I get to wondering why we in the Northern parts of Turtle I...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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I Found A Carpometacarpus — to know the land
I went to the beach the other day and I found a bone washed up. The bone struck me right away as looking like it was from a bird. Perhaps I remembered it from a previous bone study or from a skeleton ...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Considering Bebb’s Willow — to know the land
Bebb’s Willow is a species I encounter commonly, but I do not know much about. I can’t even accurately identify them. They have become the subtle whisper of species ID I feel inside me whenever I cann...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Ep. 277 : Signs of the White-tailed Deer Rut — to know the land
While tracking White-tailed Deer at Mono Cliffs with the Earth Tracks apprenticeship, we saw lots of signs of the rut and the subtle ways deer communicate. We studied three main signs: scrapes, rubs a...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Ep. 276 : Chinook Salmon along the Credit River — to know the land
I have missed a few of the notable migrations this year; Salamanders, raptors, and until yesterday, the Chinook Salmon. The salmon are a unique one on this list for me though, special in a strange kin...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Ep. 275 : Once Upon a Black Bear Scat — to know the land
It isn’t often that I get to see bear scat down here in Guelph, but in Parry Sound, there are many Black Bears, and while visiting the Sound for a trailing workshop, we came across some of their scat....
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September 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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Ep. 268 : Do Deer Mice Eat Birds? — to know the land
It started with a little hole at the base of an Eastern White Cedar tree, and a couple of seeds. Who had collected and consumed the contents of the seeds? What about the feathers? And the boney remnants of bill? Join me as I go deep down a Deer Mouse hole.
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July 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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Ep 269 : Listening to Grey Treefrogs — to know the land
Grey Treefrogs are my favourite frog species at the moment. They are cute little colour changing, antifreeze laden, Lichen-Spirits who really belt it out when trying to find a date. I have been hearin...
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July 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Ep. 270 : Rough Horsetail — to know the land
Inspired by a fun workshop I got to host, along with such an amazing history of evolution though incredible cataclysmic epochs, chock full of climate upheaval, I really wanted to learn more about thes...
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July 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Ep. 267 : Listening to the Spring Peepers

Eardrum bursting calls of the Spring Peepers are a very welcome sound for me. To borrow a phrase from Kim Stanley Robinson, their “cascading recombinant chaos” preaches a promise of Spring, and it fills me with joy.
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May 18, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Ep. 266 : Getting to know Song Sparrows.
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While out today I came across Song Sparrow tracks in the silt by the Eramosa River flood waters and it got me interested to dig deeper to this common bird in my life. That's what this weeks episode is all about. Enjoy!
Song Sparrow held showing their head with detail of feathers.
April 8, 2025 at 12:09 AM