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Get ready for the Passport to Nature: With Maple Tree I.D.

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When is a beloved maple tree not a beloved maple tree? When it’s not a native species. Of eight species of maple growing in Ontario, one has caught the ire of conservationists,and over the last decade or so quite lot of effort has been made to get rid it. The dark one in question is the Norway maple.

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The Pure Dedication of Birders

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Take the Christmas Bird Count season as an example. Any time between mid December and early January, alarms are waking birders up very early in the morning.