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The stories we tell (and need to tell) about conservation

Connop Property in Alberta (photo by NCC)

Connop Property in Alberta (photo by NCC)

It’s a crisis! A chunk of land of conservation value suddenly comes on the market, or it’s threatened with some form of development or in some way is scarce and connecting habitat for some charismatic megafauna that commands our...

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Beavers: An inconvenient species?

Beaver (Photo by Cheryl Reynolds)

Beaver (Photo by Cheryl Reynolds)

The beaver is quite a package: it swims like a fish, cuts like a chain saw, moves materials like a front end loader, is the first water engineer and the first logger and transforms landscapes at a scale that rivals human-based transformations....

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