My first CV event: Nexen Energy interns help remove weeds in the badlands
Nexen CV event, Horseshoe Canyon, AB (Photo by NCC)
Less than a week into my internship with the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC), I attended my first Conservation Volunteers (CV) event on June 5, 2014. The NCC team arrived early at the site, located on the Nodwell-Horseshoe Canyon property, to...
A day in the field with Brian Keating is always an adventure!
Staff hike at Bunchberry Meadows, AB (Photo by NCC)
It was the kind of morning that was just mild enough for a brisk winter walk. Around 15 staff of the Nature Conservancy of Canada's (NCC’s) Alberta Region had bundled up to get a glimpse of Bunchberry Meadows, the next big potential NCC...
#YYC Earth Day cleanup: What we found may surprise you
Earth rise (Photo by NASA, Wikimedia Commons)
In some ways, every day is Earth Day when you work at the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) — our very mandate means that we are constantly thinking, planning for and even working in some of the planet's most beautiful landscapes. So...
Leave it to beaver: Celebrating Alberta's natural legacy
Brian and Dee Keating, eastern slopes tour, AB (Photo by NCC)
I call it "nature’s parallel universe": it’s my definition for all of the natural occurrences happening all around us, every day. The chickadees’ pecking order of dominance at the winter bird feeder; the peeper frogs calling in...
