Episode 21 Migratory Birds on the Pacific Flyway: March 31, 2011 [audio: http://niche-canada.org/files/sound/naturespast/natures-past21.mp3][36:07] Migratory birds, by the nature of their behavior, cross boundaries. They are transcontinental species whose habitat in North America ranges from the Canadian arctic to Mexico. As such, the human conservation of these species has historically been […]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
On Monday, International Women’s Day, Margaret Wente declared victory for the rights of women, stating “The war for women’s rights is over. And we won.” Canadian women, according to Wente, have made great achievements courtesy of feminism “for some of this.” Wente reserved most of her gratitude for the industrial […]
The Network in Canadian History & Environment has launched a new blog called Nature’s Chroniclers. Taking the lead from Active History, this new group blog has started with a weekly schedule of posts from leading researchers in the field of Canadian environmental history. Thus far, the blog has featured posts […]
Last December, NiCHE announced the results of its fourth annual call for projects and we were awarded funding to develop an environmental history mobile application for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad). The EH App Project will develop a mobile application to help connect the environmental history research community to […]