Recent Posts by Sean Nichols
What does sustainable ranching look like among one of Alberta’s largest remaining blocks of native fescue grassland? Chris Saunders and several other adventurers took a field trip down to the Milk River Ridge to find out: At about 9.30 am on September 9, 2020, 11 hikers assembled on the top of the Milk River Ridge Continue Reading »
Written on September 13, 2020 at 1:05 pm
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Adventure coordinator Tako Koning recounts a field trip to see orphan gas wells in southwestern Alberta: The group consisted of 14 participants and as we drove towards the bird blind at Frank Lake, five km east of High River, we saw over 200 beautiful white pelicans resting on a small island near the western edge Continue Reading »
Written on September 13, 2020 at 12:59 pm
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Adventure coordinator Sean Nichols talks about hosting a charity trivia event in the AWA garden during the times of Covid: For most of the ten days leading up to AWA’s Trivia for the Wild adventure on August 15, the weather was looking to be pretty miserable. Our otherwise splendid August notwithstanding, the forecast was predicting Continue Reading »
Among those who know of them, southern Alberta’s Porcupine Hills are renowned for their fantastical bouquet of wildflowers that paint the landscape every summer. Joel Van Riper went on AWA’s adventure to visit them earlier this July and recounts his trip: The morning of the adventure everyone made their way through thick fog to meet Continue Reading »
It is with great sadness and fond memories that we say goodbye to longtime volunteer and dear friend to AWA, Margaret Main. Those of us who have participated in AWA events in and around Calgary over past several decades will surely recall on numerous occasions being greeted by her warm smile and helped by her Continue Reading »
