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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.

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

When it rains, it spores

Spring migration to Whistler—How was it?

You little weasel!

Bear Necessities

Luscious locks of lichen

Autumn birds finish year on an unexpected crescendo

Highs and lows of corridor Christmas bird counts

Whistler's watershed divide

It's all for the Birds

Best of both worlds—deciduous conifers

Glacier monitoring update shows Wedgemount continues to recede

What do summer bird studies tell us?

Freaky fungi feature bloody tooth fungus

Why spores are not a bore

Is that oil on the beach?

What does the 2019 bird migration tell us?

A beginner's guide to forest bathing

Whistler Lakes: Ephemeral Geological Wonders