Wrote Nina Newington a few days ago:
A week ago, a group of Acadia students and their teachers came out to the Camp NOW Blackfly Shelter. It was warm enough that a few blackflies even showed up for duty, along with a squad of mosquitoes. We talked, glad of the screen tent, and then we walked, exploring some of the old growth forest on the peninsula between Corbett and Dalhousie Lakes.
A sharp eyed student spotted some now rare Canada yew growing on the forest floor. Golden-crowned kinglets sang high in the treetops. We stood by the snag of a once massive yellow birch, its fallen trunk crumbling back to earth… Read More