Category: Nature & Environment
Reduce your energy usage with Ottawa’s “Race to Retrofit” challenge
Ottawa citizens, classrooms, and businesses are being encouraged to participate in the virtual Race To Retrofit challenge from November 15th to the 19th to build awareness about energy related activities that make a real environmental impact.
Stittsville Land Keepers host inaugural event – celebrate Kemp Woodland
Jessie Lozanski created the Wild Stittsville guide that can be found at several locations in Stittsville and has now created a group entitled Stittsville Land Keepers.
Nature right on our doorstep – October’s observations by Jessie Lozanski
What’s happening with some of the flora and fauna in Stittsville’s ecosystems. Follow along and use this as inspiration to get out in our natural community!
Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre pens strong letter to Mayor and Councillors on City beaver issues
We are writing to express the Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre’s extreme frustration in our attempt to work with the City of Ottawa on Beaver issues.
Abandoned logs become a project of passion
For one Stittsville resident, Tom Gardener, the pandemic affected him in a profound way – a positive discovery of the land around him.
Discover the Carp River Conservation Area
MVCA and Friends of the Carp River cordially invite you to attend the Discover the Carp River Conservation Area event on Saturday, 2 October, from 1:30pm to 4pm.
Timbermere’s Ladybird Park to be reforested
The Emerald Ash Borer is a non-native, highly destructive wood-boring beetle that feeds under the bark of ash trees.
City of Ottawa needs to stop killing beavers
More than a decade ago, City Council directed staff to develop a Wildlife Strategy that “would facilitate and foster a more harmonious relationship with all wildlife.
Give thanks to nature on Thanksgiving Sunday
Join CPAWS-OV in giving Thanks to Nature this Thanksgiving Sunday in four parks across Ottawa and Gatineau. Take a break and reconnect with the wild.
Enjoy Stittsville’s natural community with Jessie Lozanski
(The Goulbourn Wetland Complex. All photos: Jessie Lozanski) (Editor’s note: Jessie Lozanski brought us her ‘Wild Stittsville’ book and is now bringing the community the first of many articles that…
Celebrating our diversity and common purpose through the art of the forest – a visit to Barkwood Forest
Jonathan Havelock is trekking across Canada to take images of trees for an exhibition to take place in 2023 in Edmonton, Alberta.
The Stittsville wetlands beaver family may not survive if moved
If the work starts during this timeframe and the beavers have had their kits and are moved – the family won’t survive the winter! Beavers are extremely territorial.
Cleaning the Capital fall program now open for registration
Many community groups, families and individuals in Stittsville have dedicated themselves to participating in Cleaning the Capital campaigns throughout the years.
Empowering youth to be leaders: Canadian Wilderness Stewardship Program accepting applications
The Ottawa Valley chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society is now accepting applications for its 2021-2022 Canadian Wilderness Stewardship Program.
Wild Stittsville – home to a natural world worth caring about
Stittsville has changed a lot even since I was a kid and I have watched some of my favourite places disappear into subdivisions.