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Entry #25 – Putting The Hat on the Rack [Goodbye, Medicine Hat]
Saturday was my last day in the Suffield NWA, and tomorrow I say goodbye to Medicine Hat. Ironically, it took till my last few days to finally explore the heart of the city and even visit the visitors centre to pick up a commemorative sticker of the Saamis Tepee – the World’s Largest Tepee, that…
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Entry #24 – Little Farms on the Prairie
“We don’t even know what to do with so much moisture,” John, one of the farmers we were meeting with, commented as he gestured to the fields of verdant green surrounding us. Compared to the last half a decade of prolonged drought, having rain every other day in the heart of Canadian cattle country had…
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Entry #23 – Prairie Wildlife
I glanced down at my GPS hooked to the hip belt of my pack. 35H should be right around here…I thought to myself. It was a nest that I had found a week prior with 3 little lark eggs shaded by a canopy of dry grass. Unfortunately for me, the nest was also built of…
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Entry #22 – Mist Netting
Fieldwork in Suffield has consisted of main two facets: Mist nets are made out of an incredibly fine net material and are complete and utter pains to set up. The net mesh will get caught on literally everything and tangle like no ones business. We set up and take these downs at least 6-8 times…
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Entry #21 – Craters and Cow Bones
The morning of Friday May 10th was a brisk 9°C. The sunrise was not until 5:42am, however, we aimed to be on base for well before that, so we all piled into the truck at 5:00am. The prairie stretched on for miles as we drove past on desolate roads passing idyllic farmsteads and massive industrial…
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