Join the Kelsey Ecological Society (SK) on August 15 for a tour of local cemeteries, where history is remembered and nature quietly thrives www.facebook.com/kelseyecolog...

Turkey Vultures are social feeders, with several birds gathering at one carcass. Their bare heads help them to stay clean while eating www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/turkvu... #NatureCompanion

A Year with the Seals: “I followed the lives of seals, discovering as much as I could about how they interact with their environment. By learning from the people closest to seals, I tried to make sense of our relationship with these mysterious yet familiar creatures.” www.alixmorris.com

If you’re visiting Tofino, be sure to take in some of the free outdoor activities offered by Raincoast Education Society – plankton exploration, rainforest walks & beach seines raincoasteducation.org/free-summer-...

Red-tailed Hawks are one of the largest birds in North America, but they weigh at most 3 pounds. Dogs of a similar size weigh 10 times as much www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/redtail/ #NatureCompanion

Wild Cities, a globe-spanning look at how to bring nature into the places we live – and how to create the wild cities of the future www.harpercollins.com/products/wil... #booksonfriday

Join an arborist and a local historian for a 75-minute walk around some of Winnipeg’s parks and neighbourhoods. Learn about the spaces’ history, the types of trees, and tree health www.facebook.com/TreesWinnipeg2

The EcoFriendly West Fund is pleased to support the Ancient Forest Alliance’s work in protecting endangered old-growth forests in BC ancientforestalliance.org

Golden Eagles’ territorial/courtship display is known as sky dancing and consists of a series of steep dives and upward swoops www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/goldea... #NatureCompanion

Wild Orcas: This marvelously illustrated book explores all things killer whale – their remarkable hunting skills, their ability to coordinate and strategize, their unique dialects, and their rituals and traditions press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Brandon’s Riverbank, a gathering place connecting people and nature, recently installed the city’s largest solar panel array, able to supply about 40% of the annual energy needs for the Discovery Centre's building www.discoverwestman.com/articles/sol... (photo credit: Discover Westman)

Young Bald Eagles are nomads, exploring vast territories and flying hundreds of miles per day www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/baldea... #NatureCompanion

Eyes in the Soles of my Feet: “I find it humbling that many crustaceans, echinoderms, gastropods, coelenterates, and at least 1,500 species of fish have the capacity to create light, making it the most common language on the planet, yet one we don’t speak” schaffnerpress.com/books/eyes-i...

Join a family-friendly hike to Window Mountain Lake on July 19 to learn what it takes to protect and restore Alberta’s iconic whitebark pine trees and find out about the toxins lying beneath the lake’s surface www.albertawilderness.ca/product/adve...

Almost every part of Arrowleaf Balsamroot can be eaten, from the seeds and leaves to the roots www.naturecompanion.ca/plants/arrow/ #NatureCompanion

Combining science with history, and folklore with culture, The Tree Book is an immersive guide to the world’s best-loved and most extraordinary species www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/654263...

Wanuskewin is hosting an interactive one-day workshop on June 27 featuring a prescribed fire demonstration and tour of on-going restoration efforts at the NE Swale wanuskewin.com/event/saskat...

Bunchberry belong to the same plant family as Pacific Dogwoods. They attract butterflies, and the berries are much appreciated by wildlife www.naturecompanion.ca/plants/bunch... #NatureCompanion

Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers, Hannah Ritchie: “We are not only capable of solving climate change but also poised to create a better future for ourselves in the process.” hannahritchie.com/books

Join a 7 pm, July 2 webinar to find out more about MycoMap BC, a fungal biodiversity dataset to better understand BC’s mushrooms, assist taxonomists, and support fungal conservation by tracking how fungi respond to environmental change bit.ly/4dWYWI5

Common Beargrass produce a cone of small, star-like white flowers that develops into a bottlebrush shape as it matures. The flowers may have a lilac-like perfume www.naturecompanion.ca/plants/bearg... #NatureCompanion

“Flowers are world changers … Flowering plants remade life in the oceans, as well as on land, and their revolutionary innovations continued long after their appearance and rise in the Cretaceous. We live on a floral planet.” dghaskell.com

Create impressive images (June 16) or try your hand at identifying mushrooms (June 23) and bugs (June 30) with CPAWS Manitoba’s Nature Club cpawsmb.org/nature-club-...

The EcoFriendly West Fund is pleased to support the Native Plant Society of Saskatchewan’s vision of a future where native plants and their ecosystems thrive www.npss.sk.ca

Bears eat large quantities of Devil’s Club’s shiny red berries, spreading the seeds in their droppings www.naturecompanion.ca/trees/devilc... #NatureCompanion

“The wolves of Yellowstone have allowed me to witness the joys, disappointments, and often heart-stopping dramas of their lives day after day, year after year, and generation after generation for thirty years. This is both my story – and theirs.” www.rickmcintyre.com/books

Don’t miss Calgary’s Eco-Solar Home tour, June 20 & 21 – rammed earth, passive house, solar arrays, wind turbine, water collection, and much more ecosolar.ca/calgary.html

Most or all of the Sea Star's vital organs are in its arms, including an eye at the tip of each arm that can detect light and dark www.naturecompanion.ca/animals/seas... #NatureCompanion

“While science might look like a well-oiled machine spitting out findings to those glancing at it from the outside, it looks more like a chunky old engine prone to breakdown to those of us on the inside” us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Free gardening webinars from May to November – urban tree care, lawn alternatives, attracting beneficial wildlife, regenerative gardening, and more gardening.usask.ca/public-works...