species at risk

March 2023 Dawson Trail Dispatch: Snapping turtles have been a part of the landscape for such a long time it would be a tragedy to lose them now. Conservation efforts are making a positive impact.

February 2023 Dawson Trail Dispatch: If you are in search of black ash, good places to look would be undisturbed wetland areas near rivers, swamps, and fens. Here they can live 150 to 300 years.

January 2023 Dawson Trail Dispatch: There is a threatened bird that is linked with our use of wood, the chimney swift, whose Canadian population has plummeted by at least 95 per cent since the 1970s.

December 2022 Dawson Trail Dispatch: Woodpeckers are one of the most dynamic families of birds we share the tall-grass prairie ecosystem with. They are highly adaptable species and come in a variety of unique colours and patterns.

November 2022 Dawson Trail Dispatch: As an amphibian, the eastern tiger salamander depends on both aquatic and terrestrial (land) habitats to complete their life cycle.

October 2022 Dawson Trail Dispatch: It can be bittersweet knowing that you won’t be seeing these migrants until warmer weather returns, and this is especially true for species that are at risk of disappearing like the eastern wood-pewee.