By Malie Lessard-Therrien, biologist, outdoor guide and adventurer To start the year off well, we left on our Nordic skiing adventure as a couple to discover the backcountry of Mont-Tremblant…

Known colloquially in French as the merisier, the yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis) is a tree native to northeastern North America. Due to its rapid growth, long life, beauty and wide…

Deer are essentially the charming homewreckers of the ecosystem. Don’t believe me? Read on. A natural regrowth forest has many strata of growth: flowers, ferns, perennials, annuals, shrubs, plus trees…

The eastern cottontail rabbit, which is present in much of the United States, moved into southern Ontario in the 1860s. Since then, it has moved progressively north, taking advantage of…

By Hugues Tennier, Officer in charge of the Department of Conservation and Education at Sepaq If Mont-Tremblant National Park defines itself as 400 lakes in hills that wolves call home,…

“I am a red oak (Quercus rubra), the most common oak in Eastern Canada. My species is fairly abundant in southern Québec but nonetheless, I consider myself quite exceptional. For…

By Jeff Swysten Hiking’s simple rule is this: leave only footprints. I like to add: try to avoid that, too. Often I see people avoiding a puddle, thereby widening the…

Summer would just not be summer without a rant from me about our destructive, voracious, but annoyingly picturesque deer. Lists of “deer-resistant” plants abound. In general, however, they are far…