Tag: Nature Conservancy of Canada

The Real Damsels And Dragons Of Ontario

Jul 24, 2015

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Graham Ansell

in Canadian Wildlife, Ontario Parks, Parks and Conservation Areas, Specimen Collecting, Student Experience

Hello again faithful readers, Last week I returned to the BIObus for more aquatic sampling. This time we visited sites within the Backus Heritage Conservation Area, Long Point Provincial Park, and the Nature Conservancy of Canada (N.C.C.). Today I’ll be talking about the river damselflies that were almost ubiquitous across our sampling areas and some…
Delving into Darkwoods

Jul 14, 2015

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Shannon MacDonald

in Back at the Lab, BC Parks, Blog, Canadian Wildlife

For the past few weeks I’ve been fortunate enough to start exploring the insect biodiversity of Canada’s largest privately owned nature conservancy: Darkwoods. Owned by the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), Darkwoods is a 136,000-acre tract of land located near Salmo, British Columbia in the heart of the Selkirk mountain range.