Hellen Creek News Today

Students at Charlottetown Rural High School are hoping to get a closer look at their school mascot, the osprey, now that they have installed a new platform on a pole. It's the latest osprey platform on Prince Edward Island to provide a view of the large birds of prey.

Earlier this month Calvert County’s Department of Public Works, Water and Sewer Division reported that a ruptured pipe at Solomons Wastewater Treatment Plant on Sweetwater Road in Lusby led to

Volunteers from 10 watershed groups came together to work on a section of living shoreline along the Hillsborough River in Charlottetown Tuesday.

A new project in the city of Charlottetown is trying to grow small forests faster, using high density planting and native species. The technique is called the Miyawaki method, named for the Japanese ecologist and botanist who developed the idea of mini forests, and how to grow them, in the 1970s.

Numbers of P.E.I.'s native black ash have dwindled to just a few hundred, while Mi'kmaw communities need the wood for basket weaving and other cultural endeavours.

Three weeks after P.E.I.'s biggest storm decimated the Island's forests, trails and beaches, the Island Nature Trust is urging residents to be patient — and let nature do the work.