Song of Northern Superior
![White-throated sparrow (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/species/bird/white-throated-sparrow-thumb.jpg)
White-throated sparrow (Photo by Wikimedia Commons)
It was a chilly April morning in southern Ontario, so all of the windows in my house were closed. But I could still hear something outside. I quickly pushed open the window and listened. There it was — the cheery song of the white-throated...
Why I walk in the woods
![American Chestnut (Photo by Norfolk County)](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/species/plant/American_Chestnut_2_Norfolk_County.jpg)
American Chestnut (Photo by Norfolk County)
The woods deliver in every season. Backus Woods is my favourite refuge and whenever I visit I am reminded why. It’s nothing in particular, really, but the experience itself. It’s breathing in the sweet, fresh oxygen-rich air as snow...