Keeping Christmas Green

Stew ColesBlog

A woman prepares Christmas decorations.

Keeping Christmas GreenReducing Your Christmas Carbon Footprint Well, the holidays are upon us. While for many this is a season of joy and warmth, it … Read More

(Inter)National Endangered Species Day 2019

Stew ColesBlog

Bumblebee pollinating a purple flower

It’s National Endangered Species Day on the other side of our Southern border today, so we thought we’d take this chance to talk about some of the endangered critters on the Canadian Species At Risk Act’s public registry here in Saskatchewan.

Stewards for the Land Program

Stew ColesBlog, Decolonizing Conservation, Featured, Park Campaigns

Stewards for the Land students, class of 2019.

The vision of the Stewards program is to provide Indigenous youth an opportunity to investigate natural resource careers while learning about their connection to the land and their own cultural heritage—keeping their stories and their traditional ways of interacting with the land alive and well in the face of a new, technology-savvy generation.

The Myth of the Zombie Deer

Stew ColesBlog, Education

Deer in a forest

Chronic Wasting Disease is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that affects deer species (whitetail, mule deer, elk, moose, caribou, etc). In simpler terms, it is a disease, capable of being spread between animals, that affects the brain by causing it to become ‘spongy’ as it degenerates. It does NOT turn deer into zombies!