Canadian Geographic called Louise de Kiriline Lawrence Canada’s Rachel Carson and Canada’s Thoreau, noting that she spent 50 years studying birdlife in a remote forest on the Mattawa River.

An endlessly curious self-trained amateur ornithologist and nature writer, de Kiriline Lawrence changed the way we think about birds.

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Canadian marine biologist Shane Gero is the Biology Lead for Project CETI, (Cetacean Translation Initiative ) an interdisciplinary A‑team of badass scientists: marine robotics specialists, cetacean biologists, AI wizards, linguistics and cryptography experts and data specialists.* Their project–a 2020 TED initiative applying advanced machine learning and state-of-the-art Continue reading →

Patrice Bouchard looking for beetles on trees at night with a headlamp

Beetles are remarkably adaptable and beautiful creatures found almost everywhere on earth. Incredibly visually diverse ­with nearly 400,000 described species – compared for example to some 5,500 mammal species or 6,500 amphibian species – they make up more Continue reading →

What better way to welcome September and the return of our club meetings than a presentation by our president, renowned naturalist/educator/author/nature photographer Michael Runtz. And what better subject than The Howls of Autumn, illuminating the elusive and infamous wolves of Algonquin. Their wild sounds add another dimension to any Algonquin Continue reading →

Club members can’t get enough of Tree educator Owen Clarkin!

Soon after he spoke at our December 2021 meeting Owen agreed to deliver a second presentation on trees, this one focusing on tree identification for our June 1 meeting.

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