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EXOTIC WATER PLANTS: The Army Corps of Engineers hopes a new grant strategy will help combat the invasive European frog-bit and its unwelcome water soldier relative that are spreading in the Great …

Katherine Palmer Gordon’s latest book, This Place Is Who We Are: Stories of Indigenous Leadership, Resilience, and Connection to Homelands, tells 10 inspiring stories about how Indigenous communities in B.C. are reconnecting to their lands and waters.

In the waters where it’s a native species — Europe, Asia, and Africa – the aquatic plant known as European frog-bit is no trouble at all. Though its name summons images of slime and bumps, frog-bit is a decorative display of coin-size leaves that in shallow water look like lily pads and serve as a source of food for insects, snails, rodents, waterfowl, and fish.

As of 8:45 a.m., the hardest hit areas are in Windsor County, where at least five inches of rainfall has already been accounted for.

Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Recourses and Renewables (DNRR) says a wildfire in Shelburne County is 60 per cent contained.

Nova Scotia’s Department of Natural Recourses and Renewables (DNRR) says a wildfire in Shelburne County remains 25 per cent contained.

Fire crews and the Department of Natural Resources and Renewables (DNRR) are on the scene of an out of control wildfire in the Little Harbour area of Shelburne County, N.S.

A wildfire in Nova Scotia’s Shelburne County is still out of control, according to the provincial Department of Natural Recourses and Renewables.

A large swath of land that’s home to rare lichen and migratory birds on Nova Scotia’s South Shore will now be protected.

With over 20,000 miles of cold trout waters and home to the birthplace of brown trout, Michigan is considered a mecca for fly fishing.