Some of PEI’s natural habitats punch well above their weight – their importance far exceeds the area they occupy in the landscape....

Welcome back to Ask a Naturalist: your own personal “Google” for information on all things natural on PEI!  In October, I posted about...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more.  This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

PEI’s colourful fall leaves are mostly gone, but one native tree is still putting on a show: Eastern Larch, also known as Juniper,...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more. This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more. This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

As a professional botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well, but I am working to learn more. This fall, I’m sharing some easily...

As a botanist, I don’t know my mushrooms well (fungi are more closely related to animals than they are to plants). But I am working to...

Hurricane Fiona took many things from PEI last year, including our fall leaf colour. As we move into the shorter, cooler days of...

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

Let's look at one of PEI's lesser-known coastal habitats: krummholz forest (Photo 1). Although PEI isn’t far north or high-altitude, we...