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to know the land

A show about relationships with the landbase, striving to evoke resilience, resistance, and reverence for the land. Interviews with authors, researchers, activists and students of the land.

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00:59:27

Ep. 178 : A discussion of On the Animal Trail by...

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2021/12/13

My friend Julian Fisher recommended a book to me he thought I would enjoy. It was Baptiste Morizot’s On the Animal Trail from Polity books. I got it and began reading when he told me he had just finished the book and was working on a review for the journal Environmental Philosophy. In light of this, I asked him if he would like to do a “book report, not a review” with me, where we could just have a good conversation about what we were thinking and learning about through reading the work. Julian is a

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00:59:28

Ep. 177 : Greenbelt Foundation with Shelley Petrie

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2021/12/06

2,100,000 acres protected within not only the most populous area in Canada, but one of the most important economic areas, the struggle between development and sprawl vs protection and conservation of farms, forests and fragile wetlands is a very real undertaking, and one very much beyond me. Getting to talk to Shelley Petrie of The Greenbelt Foundation about how a successful mobilization 16 years ago to protect some smaller tracts has expanded to include so much more was helpful in understanding

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00:37:23

Ep. 176 : Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats with Dr....

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2021/11/29

I first noted the book because of the “tracking rats” part of the title, but when I began reading it I realized Dr. Cylita Guy’s new book Chasing Bats and Tracking Rats : Urban Ecology, Community Science, and How We Share Our Cities is more than what it seems. Cylita has written about how eight different researchers go about conducting their research along with how they themselves, as individuals, some as BIPOC scientists, interact with and encounter their work. There are stories of late night

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00:48:34

Ep. 175 : Solidarity with Wet’suwet’en Land Protectors

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2021/11/22

RCMP has invaded Wet’suwet’en territory from the second time in as many years. Land protectors have been resisting a pipeline going through their territory for many years, and most recently from a site where the pipeline would be buried below a river where folks fish and drink from. When the police raided the blockades there were calls for support and solidarity actions. Locally and abroad there have been marches, rallies, vigils, and more. This weeks episode is all about giving context for the

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00:42:04

Ep. 174 : The True Cost of Coal with the Beehive...

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2021/11/15

The massive Beehive Collective posters were a big part of my culturation and activist upbringing. Every punk house, infoshop, or radical space I encountered had one of their many gorgeously illustrated prints in a living room, bedroom or even in the washroom. They were so detailed, so thorough and nuanced that I would discover new facets every time I made the effort to study one. But despite seeing them so often, these black and white billboards were still a little mysterious and the narrative a bit

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00:46:22

Ep. 173 : Rosemary Mosco, author and cartoonist

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2021/11/08

I really appreciate when I can meet someone who can take something despised and vilified and transform it into a beautiful focal point, braiding together natural history, human history, and urban ecology. Using a playful approach to science, research and with her signature illustrations, Rosemary Mosco brings the Pigeon back into our awareness as a wonderful urban companion through the Anthropocene, instead of being viewed as a pest or vector to be avoided. From her online comic, Bird and Moon,

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00:40:49

Ep. 172 : Autonomously and with Conviction

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2021/10/18

Most of this episode is a talk given at the Decolonizing Thanksgiving Dinner (formally Anti-colonial Thanksgiving Dinner) on October 14th, 2018. I wanted to highlight this conversation on reconciliation when right now, RCMP forces are again actively invading indigenous territories across so-called Canada. Since September 25th, the Gidimt’en Access Point has been holding new blockades and using a variety of tactics to keep Coastal GasLink workers and the RCMP off their territory. Specifically, they

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00:48:40

Ep. 171 : Matt Soltys, The Urban Orchardist

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2021/10/11

Before I pressed record I was pressing Matt with questions about fungal infections which affect Apples throughout the orchard. We wove between trees, ducking low branches looking for the perfect spot to record in. My hands were full with my audio recorder, my newly broken headphones, and apples I had gleaned from below a couple of nice old trees with well pruned branches, low canopies and open form, perfect for climbing in and grabbing the few remainders left on the trees. It took me a second to

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00:48:44

Ep. 170 : Early Autumn Update

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2021/10/04

The seasons are changing and it’s getting a little more obvious everyday. I have been watching life turn over the past couple of weeks and it’s been lovely. I went out on Saturday, sat under a Sugar Maple (Acer saccharum), and watched the wind move through the grass. I’d been feeling a sense of loss since the moment I realized I had forgotten to press record on my wonderful but now lost-forever interview with Olivia Messinger Carril and Joseph S. Wilson authors of the new book Common Bees of Eastern

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00:56:20

Ep. 169 : Bumble Bee Recovery Program

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2021/09/20

Bumble Bees (genus Bombus) are a diverse genus of Bees with 25 species in Ontario according to range maps, but more like 14-16 species you are more likely to encounter. It can be a confusing process not only trying to decipher the genus of a Bee, but especially down to the species. Now how about trying to i.d. a increasingly hard to find species? Its hard. Its harder still to try and help these bees get back into the mating game, supporting their regeneration and helping them help reinhabit the

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00:54:24

Ep. 168 : Peterson Field Guide to North American Bird...

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2021/09/13

In 1975, Hal H. Harrison wrote the Peterson Field Guide to Eastern Birds’ Nests. In 1979 he wrote the Western guide. I have my copy of Eastern Birds’ Nests on the primary bird shelf (there are two shelves) beside Bird Feathers by S. David Scott and Casey McFarland. Now, Casey McFarland, Matthew Monjello & David Moskowitz have come together to revamp the Peterson Field Guide to Bird Nests. In one (kinda thick) package they managed to fit descriptions of over 650 bird species along with beautiful

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Ep. 167: Black Walnut

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2021/09/06

Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) is a tree I have been building relationship with for years. Through gathering, processing, storing, cooking, dyeing, planting, distributing and educating, this has been a plant I have come to know a lot about, and with whom I have shared some of myself with. I do not know Walnut in all stages (I long to know the flowers more), and I do not know the post glacial dispersal (it’s always nice to learn the backstory), I am slowly coming to understand the more than human

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00:58:18

Ep. 166 : Song of the night

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2021/08/23

For most of my life I have enjoyed biking and walking through the trails at night. I explore the meandering paths by creek or riverside, venture through parks and fields looking for something unnameable or unknowable by day. There is a special beauty that glows faintly at night and I have longed to share that with friends ever since I was old enough to spend the night out by myself. It took me by surprise when I realized that others couldn’t get out as I did. They held back by more than subtle

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01:01:33

Ep. 165 : Bobcat (Lynx rufus)

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2021/08/16

I went up to Point Grondine with my partner last week and while there we saw lots of great flora and fauna. Cardinal Flower, Bunchberry, Bristly Sarsaparilla, Bluebead Lily, among so much more beautiful flora. Some of the fauna included Bears, Beavers, Porcupines, possible Wolf scat, Moose tracks... but also one night we were woken up by an animal going through one of our bags. I scared them away but they hissed at me before they managed to get up a 7.5 m/25 feet tiered rock face. The next morning I

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00:55:57

Ep. 164 : Cultural histories of Raccoons with Daniel...

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2021/07/26

The Raccoon (Procyon lotor), whose range has expands to include nearly all habitats on the continent, from Canada to Panama, has made their impact on the land, hearts, minds, and cultures of those who have encountered them. Author, professor and animal nerd Daniel Heath Justice helps us navigate the wild cultural impacts and impressions of Raccoons. From indigenous Missippian cosmologies as boundary walkers to the denizens of Toronto’s liminal urban nightscape, Raccoons are imprinted on the

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00:41:02

Ep. 163 : Ebony Jewelwings

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2021/07/05

Ebony Jewelwings (CIalopteryx maculata) are beautiful, which is one of the reasons they are so interesting to watch. I have seriously sat for hours watching them, photographing them and trying to learn from observing what is going on. I have mostly come away with questions. In light of my own questions and many from friends I have decided to try and research a little bit more about these beautiful broadwinged Damselflies in hopes that I can learn a little bit more and help answer some of those

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00:46:43

Ep. 162 : Talking Trees with Dawn Matheson

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2021/06/28

Dawn Matheson wants to start connecting with trees, or a specific tree rather, at the University of Guelph Arboretum but she’s unsure which one yet. There is a process to get to know a tree and she is in the midst of sorting out that process. How do you find a friend in a tree when the culture around us says humans and trees can’t be friends? Well, she makes friends with other humans who are already friends with trees and starts from there. Dawn is in the process of a project called “How To Draw A

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01:09:43

Ep. 161 : Approaching Nonhuman Ontologies with Dr....

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2021/06/14

If you have listened to the show in the past you’ll know that I am interested in interspecies communication. Usually I focus on animals, especially birds and bird language. Dr. Sarah Abbott is also interested in interspecies communication, and recently completed her doctoral research project with a focus on communication between humans and trees. I thought this was exciting, so I had to find out more. We shared about what we knew about how trees communicate with each other, and how they might

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00:58:52

Ep. 160 : Bird Collective

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2021/05/31

Tina and Angie describe themselves as “the Wizards behind the curtain” of an awesome company based out of Brooklyn called Bird Collective. They make beautiful patches, t-shirts, sweaters and hats and more celebrating birds from across the continent while also donating 20% of the proceeds to conservation organizations and other projects that help make the world of birding more accessible to everyone. Their mission from their website reads “North America has lost more than 1 in 4 birds in the last

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00:54:29

Ep. 159 : Tracking Urban Adapted Coyote Ecologies...

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2021/05/24

Certified wildlife tracker Sage Raymond, is completing her Masters of Science studying Urban-adapted Coyote ecologies in Edmonton. She has been working with colleagues on the Edmonton Urban Coyote Project studying the patterns and behaviours of these urbanized Coyotes in hopes to be better able to predict, and reduce some of the possible problems or conflicts which could occur between these wilder animals and human/pet populations. Additionally, we talk about the use of tracking as a useful,

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