Community Feature: Rollin Baldhead

Stew ColesCommunity Features, Featured

Rollin teaching

Baldhead grew up in Saskatchewan and is now using what he’s learned to move mountains across Canada. Baldhead takes his educator role seriously, from teaching grades kindergarten to 2 through land-based learning to leading culture camps and everything in between.

Moving Urban Conservation Forward

Nicole DollBlog, Education

The concept of urban conservation is not new but this last year – under the clouds of a global pandemic – has certainly brought this topic to the fore and more specifically how our natural urban landscapes are critical for our health and wellbeing.

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!