Monthly Meeting
Monthly Meeting: How we can fight Ontario’s invasive plants!
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaGuest speaker, Vicki Simkovic, Coordinator at the Ontario Invasive Plant Council (OIPC), will present this talk on invasive plants. Phragmites, Garlic Mustard, Dog-strangling Vine, and Buckthorn are familiar examples of…
Monthly Meeting: Best Places to Bird in Ontario
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaMike Burrell, co-author of Best Places to Bird in Ontario, will be the speaker. This guide, released last spring, outlines the top 30 birding destinations in Ontario, with up-to-date information…
Monthly Meeting: Geological Features of The Land Between in Peterborough County
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaThe area north of the City of Peterborough contains a fascinating array of natural geological heritage features that span a billion years. Ken Lyon, hydrogeologist and PFN member, will introduce rocks of the core of ancient Canadian Shield mountains, plate tectonics and limestones and fossils of the shallow warm Ordovician seas, and Pleistocene drumlins and…
The Anthtopocene’s animal? Coywolves as feral cotravelers
Guest speaker: Stephanie Rutherford is an Associate Professor in the Trent School of the Environment, and also teaches and advises in the MA and PhD programs in Sustainability Studies, Cultural Studies, and Canadian and Indigenous Studies. She is the co-author of Historical Animal Geographies, published in 2018. In Canadian cities and towns their presence is…
Monthly Meeting: Members’ Slide Show Night
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaThe members’ slide show, held at our December monthly meeting, is a highly anticipated annual PFN tradition. Show fellow PFN members your photos of a recent trip. Display those exciting nature moments or wildlife encounters that you have recently experienced. This is your night to “show and tell’! We ask that you limit your presentation…
Monthly Meeting: Wild Pigs in Ontario
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaSpeaker: Erin Koen, Research Scientist for the Landscape Team at the Wildlife Research and Monitoring Section of the MNRF. Wild Pigs are in Ontario. They can be destructive to wild habitat and crops. This introduced species is difficult to control through traditional management tools such as recreational hunting. We will learn where wild pigs have…
Monthly Meeting: Unique and Diverse Flora of Western Australia
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaWestern Australia is designated as having one of the most diverse flora communities in the world. This makes it a very fascinating place to visit. But also of interest is why Western Australia’s plants are so different from those we are used to here. Perhaps these very different plants will help us see our native ones in a different light and…
CANCELLED – Monthly Meeting: Rodney Fuentes on The Monarch Ultra
Camp Kawartha Environment Centre 2505 Pioneer Rd, Peterborough, Ontario, CanadaThe Monarch Ultra is a relay run that followed one of the world’s longest insect migrations: the migration of the monarch butterflies. On September 21, 2019, the run started in…
PFN Monthly Meeting: Protecting and Recovering Butterfly Species at Risk in Ontario – Members Only
Jessica Linton is a Senior Biologist at Natural Resource Solutions Inc. in Waterloo, ON. Although her consulting project work is varied and involves a number of taxonomic groups, one of…
PFN Monthly Meeting – Presentations by Three 4th Year Trent Student Recipients of PFN Grants:
Spatial scale of Habitat Selection of White-tailed Deer presented by Jenna Knight. Jenna has been looking at the spatial scale of habitat selection of white-tailed deer in the Peterborough Crown Game Preserve in Apsley using GPS collared deer within the game preserve. A Look Into the Diversity and Dispersal of Stinkbugs in the Trent Nature…