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The Poplars

Muskrats
The proper name for a Muskrat is Ondatra Zibethicus (Ondatra is the Iroquois name for Muskrat and Zibethicus...

A walk in the woods
Now that the heat of summer is finished and summer vacations for a lot of people are over, it’s a nice, qu...

Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring!
It’s wonderful to hear the songbirds these past few weeks as they’ve arrived back from their winter retr...

Poisonous Hemlocks
We recently had an inquiry from a reader in the Georgian Bay area, who while searching for information on Po...