Ethics: Backcountry Etiquette For Dummies
We firmly believe that everyone who ventures into the wilderness will come back a better person... but only if everyone understands the basic etiquette of proper backcountry behaviour.
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The Old Ones: Tracking Alberta’s Ancient Limber Pines
Millennium-old outliers on otherwise barren and exposed mountain terrain, limber pines are in rapid decline in Alberta.
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Nature, Wellness & Action Unite at ECA Summit
The Escarpment Corridor Alliance (ECA) presents a day of learning about nature corridors and their role in the longevity of the Niagara Escarpment biosphere, its people and the economy in Ontario's Southern Georgian Bay region.
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Forest Renewal: How PrintReleaf Replants What We Print
ML partners with PrintReleaf, a technology platform that calculates our impact and replants the trees we use.
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What is a Conservation Economy?
The Conservation Economy is a new way to approach growth and our place in the biosphere.
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Into the Thaw: Witnessing Wonder Amid the Arctic Climate Crisis
More than 40 years ago, Jon Waterman worked as a mountaineering ranger at Denali National Park. His patrol to the Noatak River in Gates of the Arctic National Park sparked a lifetime fascination with the wild, remote regions of the North.
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OceanGybe: A Journey Across Maps, Cultures and Garbage
Three surfing engineers launch an open-ocean sailing and outreach expedition to remap the monochrome blue expanses, explore the real boundaries between land and sea—and find a beach free of plastic…
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Don’t Love It To Death, Part 2: Behind the Scenes
Behind the scenes of a BC campaign to boost respect for the outdoors and recreate responsibly.
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The Leave No Trace Pledge: How We Can All Treat Wild Places Better
Leave No Trace Canada and Subaru Canada launch an online campaign to empower Canadians to preserve green spaces. Canadians are going outside more than ever. Outdoor recreation and public park…
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Whither the Greenbelt?
Opening up Ontario’s protected farmland, forests and wetlands to development would be a multi-generational disaster.
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Tackling Plastic Pollution with Three Waters Foundation
The new Three Waters Foundation aims to raise awareness of the Lake Huron pollution crisis through expeditions, partnerships, research and community engagement.
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A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization
Trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time hunters and gatherers first settled until the middle of the nineteenth century. Without vast supplies of wood from forests, the great civilizations of the world would have never emerged.
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The Action-Takers
As an antidote to all the scary news out there, here’s something to encourage less doomscrolling and more action-taking.
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ML Blue Mountains Fall ’22 Issue Out Now
In this issue, we take action and build a trail system, stop worrying about Covid, rebound from a tragic accident, spend a night in the Bluffs, and shred the Land of Water & Ice.
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Leave No Trace—But What’s a Trace?
words :: Jon Turk // illustration :: Dave Barnes. Tiny spring leaves formed an iridescent green sheath around the ocotillo stalks that swayed gently in the breeze. As we pulled…
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Megawatts of Protest on Georgian Bay
words & photos :: Colin Field. On a blizzardy December 11, 2019, the Meaford & St. Vincent Community Centre was over capacity. They were forced to shut the doors to…
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Pacific Herring: Canada Poised to reopen fishery of a cornerstone species at risk
words :: Hugh Forward Pacific herring are a small and ordinary fish, but they are the backbone of the West Coast marine environment. “Herring are the foundation for the whole…
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