It's official. Veronica Woodruff is the first, and only, guestagrammer so far, to post a photo of herself holding a snake. There's a challenge for you, nature lovers. https://www.instagram.com/p/BjGCcqulod4/?taken-by=thewellnessalmanac From the photos of her week, out in our wild backyard, it is apparent that this woman is never happier than when she's holding a toad, … Continue reading Spring Peeper aka pacific chorus frog says hello, and thanks to Veronica Woodruff for her takeover
Thanks to Veronica Woodruff for this weather-inspired guest post. Like all good Canadians I love the weather. Almost to point of obsession, especially when I think about it in the context of the hydrology of the Lillooet River. It is so interesting around here with the variability in the seasons and across different elevations. The first … Continue reading Significant rainfall forecast, with high freezing levels. Veronica Woodruff explores what this means, in the context of the Lillooet River
“The Lillooet River is such a mystery,” says Veronica Woodruff. “It’s so murky. Even where it’s only ten centimeters deep in shallow spots in the middle, you can’t actually see the bottom.” An environmental technician and founding director of Stewardship Pemberton, Woodruff paddleboards the river all summer and lives right beside it. “It doesn’t have … Continue reading Mapping the Mysterious: Stewardship Pemberton’s new 3D model of the ‘hood
I'm a bird nerd. And I am afraid it’s getting worse. This year I paid for my first guided bird tour while on a winter vacation in Mexico. And although I loved the beautiful local species like the Vermillion Flycatcher, my favourite part was seeing Canadian species also on vacation: Northern Cardinals, Great Blue Heron, … Continue reading I am a bird-nerd: a guest post by Veronica Woodruff (that will make you want to be a bird-nerd too)
Last week, I got an email from a friend, Erica Osburn McNolty, to let me know that she'd heard the first frogs while out walking the neighbourhood before bed. 10 March 2015. A few. Not many. Not for more than about 15 seconds. But definite croaking along Oberson Road. She keeps track - the sound … Continue reading Pacific Chorus Frogs noted, (and phenology geeks united)
I am not a columnist. I prefer asking questions to offering opinions (unless I'm at a dinner party and a little sauced.) And my skin isn't thick enough to put my unfootnoted thinking all naked out into the world on a regular basis. And I'm not funny (like my favourite columnists are - to wit: … Continue reading The Wellness Almanac In Print: This Week in the Question
I promised back in January that we would tap Veronica Woodruff's amazing knowledge and passion for wetlands critters... Here she shares her enthusiasm for the arrival of the Pacific Chorus Frog. I have been anxiously awaiting the annual glee club convergence of the Pacific Chorus Frog. One of the random things I have been keeping … Continue reading Critter Watch: Pacific Chorus Frog
I've got to tell you, it's pretty hard for me to look at a photo of the long-toed salamander and resist breaking out in a "Crikey, would you look at that little fella" spiel... Which is why I'm so glad that Stewardship Pemberton's Veronica Woodruff has agreed to take on a regular Species Watch column … Continue reading Seasonal Observations: Long toed Salamander
For the last three years, Stewardship Pemberton, along with herpetologist and doctor of zoology, Leslie Anthony, have been tracking snakes in Pemberton and he's been doing his darnedest to avoid breaking into a bad Australian accent: Crikey. This week, get the chance to hear the results of all that snake-stalking and bush-walking, and discover what … Continue reading Event: Snake Talk, Nov 7
Have you heard or seen the Pacific Chorus Frog? Stewardship Pemberton did... and led us to learn these fun facts: The Pacific Chorus Frog is a very appealing little frog, and quite common in B.C. They are small frogs, up to 5 centimetres long, and may be any colour from pale grey or tan to … Continue reading Seasonal Observations: Pacific Chorus Frogs
