The Ongoing Adventures Of Sabrina & Scooter

When I was growing up, there were few nature guides aimed at the younger set. For the most part, children were limited to referencing the Golden Nature Guides (Dr. Zim) series of pocket nature guides. I still have my (completeley falling apart and held together by elastic bands) Zim guide to insects. If you were […]

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The average age of field naturalist group members is going UP, not down. That statistic is but one of many “canaries in the coal mine” when it comes to the state of nature appreciation in North America.
Field naturalist groups across our nation all share this problem - the average members’ age is rising dramatically. There […]

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There are some who would say “they must be pets because you gave them cute names”. They have been given names for good reason. Most young children in 1st world countries have had a very, very important thing taken from them - opportunities to make spiritual, emotional and cerebral connection to the natural world. I […]

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Steve in 1954, holding young eastern cottontail (Sauble Beach, Ontario, Canada)
 
I was born in 1953, in Ontario, Canada. Growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s, a lot of my spare time was reading field guides, climbing trees, slogging through ponds, walking through forests - I was constantly connecting, passively and actively, with the natural world. […]

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