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Sep 183 min read

Gingko

Humans think in decades, forests operate in centuries, but the land’s timeframe spans hundreds of millions of years. We can read...

Dec 6, 20233 min read

Stories in Sandstone

To me, Natural History is the story our land tells about itself. PEI’s oldest stories are told by our sandstone cliffs and go back some...

Nov 15, 20232 min read

Sandstone Oxidation

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...

Jul 12, 20232 min read

Walchia Fossil Find

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

Dec 26, 20222 min read

Reading Sandstone

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...

Dec 25, 20222 min read

Permian to Present 3: Iron Rock

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...

Dec 25, 20222 min read

Permian to Present 2: Fossils

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...

Dec 25, 20222 min read

Permian to Present 1: Reading Bedrock

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