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How to build a better playground

How to build a better playground

by | Jun 13, 2024 | People, Smith Magazine

Adam Bienenstock creates outdoor spaces that let kids be kids. His real goal: help children spend more time outdoors – feeling, climbing, jumping, running and discovering nature. Yes, there will be mud   No one in North America is more closely associated with the...
Tiny fish to big picture

Tiny fish to big picture

by | Oct 15, 2020 | Canadian Wildlife, People

Marine biologist Amanda Vincent is a renowned seahorse specialist. Her work on these minute creatures has led her to become one of the world’s leading conservationists — and a global force for change FOR CENTURIES, POETS AND ASTRONOMERS have led the way in capturing...
Man of the owl

Man of the owl

by | Sep 2, 2020 | Canadian Wildlife, People

For more than 20 years, Gerry Powers has been the go-to guy, finding and caring for injured owls in B.C.’s Fraser Valley GERRY POWERS SAYS the phone call came — as they often do — in the middle of the night. It was from a couple of RCMP officers working in the...
Woodland wonders

Woodland wonders

by | Mar 10, 2020 | ON Nature, People

Wildflower expert Brian Carson has made a specialty of finding (and cultivating) rare trillium varieties and mutations — before developers’ bulldozers can wipe out their woodland habitats BRIAN CARSON IS SOUGHT OUT by wildflower experts the world over. He is in demand...