glaciation | PEI Untamed

Feb 283 min read

Offshore Islands

Sites where human and natural histories meet are always interesting, and PEI’s offshore islands are great examples of this. They tell...

Jan 173 min read

Black Banks

I describe natural history as the story our land tells about itself. PEI’s bogs tell many interesting stories, and at Black Banks the...

Aug 13, 20232 min read

Portage Lake

Welcome back to my PEI Habitat Highlights series. You can find previous editions – including Grey Dunes, Krummholtz Forest, Peat Bogs,...

Jan 5, 20233 min read

Permian to Present 7: Post-glacial plants and people

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

Dec 28, 20222 min read

Peat Bogs

Peat Bogs (Photo 1) are one of the oldest habitats on the Island; we can trace their beginnings back to the end of the last Ice Age more...

Dec 28, 20222 min read

Black Marsh, North Cape

I have a post specifically on Peat Bogs, but there is one very special Island bog that merits its own post: Black Marsh at North Cape....

Dec 26, 20222 min read

Permian to Present 6: Metamorphic rock

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

Dec 26, 20222 min read

Permian to Present 5: Post-glacial evidence

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...

Dec 26, 20222 min read

Permain to Present 4: Ice Age

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...