I’ve been checking my favorite coastal sites to see how they’re doing after Hurricane Fiona. As predicted, our sand dunes are recovering...

The 20th century was the ‘Wild West’ of wildlife introductions on PEI. You can read more about the Island’s White-tailed Deer experiment...

During the 20th century, no fewer than six species of game birds were released on PEI with hopes they would establish. The most...

I recently received this lovely photo from Joyce Dewar, granddaughter of Walter Jones who was Premier of PEI from 1943 to 1953. This is...

Through 12 chapters of my ‘Permian to Present’ series, we’ve explored PEI from the formation of its bedrock 300 million years ago,...

In recent editions of Permian to Present, we’ve seen how and why PEI lost its large, native mammals. But in the 1900s, people thought...

In the last three editions of ‘Permian to Present’ we looked at aspects of PEI’s forests and wildlife hundreds of years ago, before...

Today you get two posts in one! My winter series ‘Permian to Present’ and ‘Wildlife Tracks & Sign’ intersect to tell the story of River...

In the last edition of Permian to Present, we got a glimpse into the Island landscape of three centuries ago, around the time Europeans...

In the last edition of PEI: Permian to Present, we learned what ancient pollen and early Indigenous sites tell us about the Island...

So far in ‘PEI: Permian to Present’, we’ve explored the formation of the Island’s sedimentary sandstone bedrock, the fossils that can be...

So far in ‘PEI: Permian to Present’ we’ve looked at the Island’s sedimentary sandstone, our only igneous outcrop, some of our common...

In the last edition of ‘PEI: Permian to Present’ we looked at the Island during and just after the last ice age. Today, let’s examine a...

I’ve had a lot of questions about green-grey layers in the Island’s sandstone. So today let’s look at two reasons why our sandstone is...

For this fourth edition of ‘PEI: Permian to Present’, let’s jump ahead about 246.9 million years to the time of the last Ice Age. Our...

On September 23-24, 2022, Hurricane Fiona changed our Island’s coastline. But amid the heartbreak so many are feeling there is cause for...

Welcome to the third edition of “PEI: Permian to Present”. So far, we’ve looked at the Island’s famous red sandstone, learned why it is...

In the first edition of “PEI: Permian to Present” we looked at what the Island’s famous red standstone tells us about the environment in...

Welcome to the first installment of my new series “Natural History of PEI: Permian to Present”. I’ll be posting these occasionally among...