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NatureSpeak Articles

The Whistler Naturalists have been writing NatureSpeak articles in our local weekly paper The Pique Newsmagazine since 1999. These articles cover a wide range of natural history subjects that are available to be viewed here.

Spore Stories: the Many Mouths that Feed on Mushrooms

Snakes and Grizzly Bears, oh my!

New records of slime moulds found during BioBlitz

Promoting biodiversity by cleaning up our act

Whistler’s hydrologic regimes and the upcoming fire season

Basalt is lit!

Capturing the Unseen: Understanding the North American Beaver

The Wild West—Chaos at the end of the Ice Age. The demise of the Cordilleran Ice sheet and the birth of British Columbia as we know it

Whistler Birds – A year in review (and where were the autumn swans?)

Whistler’s 2023 Annual Christmas Bird Count

Heat and Ice, how Wedgemount and Overlord glaciers faired this summer's heat

Rusty, dusty fungus

Awesome geology sites around Whistler—GreenLake (Part 2) Ancient glaciation and modern-day geology

Awesome geology sites around Whistler—Green Lake (Part 1)

Whistler’s Wonderous Wetlands

Parenting tips from local insects

Bats help us, let’s help them

Living Words

Peak 2 Peak Gondola—A window into Whistler’s geological past

The Lore of Nature’s Web Weavers

Time to talk to a tree

Birding year concludes with a crescendo!

Annual Wedgemount Glacier Survey

Mycophagous Insects, bugs that love mushrooms just as much as you do

Small and green—just some moss?

What's the buzz about? Cicadas in Whistler

Our Critter and Climate Calamity

Backcountry naturalists wanted!

Garden pest or acrobatic beetle?

With Great Flowers Come Great Responsibility

Daytime bat sightings in winter

The American Dipper: A small swimming crow?

The Magic of Hair Ice

Whistler’s wild birding year

2021 Wedgemount Glacier Survey

Separate Wood Wide Webs?

The robber flies, insect assassinator extraordinaire

Finding the black petaltail dragonfly

Protecting Whistler's lakes

My journey from animal enthusiast to bird nerd

Yellow Cedars in Whistler

What to do if you find injured wildlife

Why the need for Forest March BC?

Discovering Tracks in Our Own Backyard

Connecting with Nature, One Step at a Time

Record Count on Fall Feathered Friends

Wedgemount Glacier Survey

Fungus Among Us factoids

The wonderful wood-wide web

Mountain migrations

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