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Earth Day 2025 Planting Event at Little River Corridor Park
By: Gina Pannunzio, Danielle Stuebing and Ian Naisbitt Our Windsor-Essex community celebrated Earth Day 2025 by planting trees on Sunday, 27 April. Volunteers participated from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. 2200 trees were planted in the open greenspace along the Ganatchio Trail in Little River Corridor Park. What a delightful Spring day we had for planting: we started the morning at 6 C and by noon it was 12 C. A fresh, north breeze of [...]
Phrag Fighters Update
By Aileen Petrozzi On April 26th the Phrag Fighters were at Bryerswood Optimist Youth Camp to celebrate Earth Day on behalf of the Club. We had a booth set up but unfortunately due to the terrible cold weather it wasn’t very busy. Despite the weather, Bernard, Janice, Heather and I still got to work and cleaned up the Phragmites that was sprayed last fall. It was short work with Bernard using our Stihl hedge cutters for the [...]
April Members’ Meeting – Nature Conservancy of Canada
By Sheila Laurin On Wednesday, April 9, 2025, Kandyce Affleck who works for the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) as a conservation biologist gave us a presentation. It included an overview of the NCC owned properties in our area. NCC, which began in 1962, is working to protect natural areas across Canada. It has helped protect habitat for many species at risk and provide permanent natural areas which can also benefit people who enjoy and [...]
Turtle Committee in Action
Have a look at some of the great work the Turtle Conservation Committee has been up to this spring.
*NEW* Let’s Shell-abrate the Turtle Conservation Committee!
By Alexander Campbell Committee Statement: The Turtle Conservation Committee of the Essex County Field Naturalists Club is committed to protecting and conserving turtles, their nests and habitats in Essex County. While partnering with the local conservation authority and other environmental groups, the goals are to identify overwintering sites, nesting sites, critical habitats and threats to the established populations, and to extend our knowledge of the abundance and distribution of native turtles in Essex County. The [...]