With the change of seasons, my plant and fungus posts are coming to an end and my two popular winter series – PEI natural history and...

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

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...

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...

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...