In this age of environmental concern, keeping your own little neck of the woods healthy is more important than ever.  Your woodlot, whether it is only an acre or two or several hundred acres, is home to a wide variety of wildlife and native plant species.  Of course, you are also interested in getting good [...]

The red squirrel is classed as a mammal of the Order:  Rodentia  Family:  Sciuridae  Genus:  Tamiasciurus  Species:  T. hudsonicus.  The American Red Squirrel  is a species of squirrel also known as the pine squirrel. The hudsonicus species was the first catalogued red squirrel and was found in and around the Hudson Bay area, Canada. The [...]

The mule deer is a mammal from the Family:  Cervidae  Sub Family:  Odocoileinae  Genus:  Odocoileus  Species:  O. hemionus.  The mule deer is the largest deer of the Odocoileus genus.  The mule deer  on average stands 40 ins to 42 ins at the shoulders and stretches some 80 ins from nose  to tail.  An adult buck [...]

They are predominantly 2 species of bighorn sheep – the Bighorn and the Desert Bighorn.  The Bighorn comes from the family:  Bovidea Sub - Family:  Caprinae Genus:  Ovis Species:  Canadensis.  The desert bighorn are supposedly made up of 4 sub species and is generally categorized by the Sub - Species:  Ovis Canadensis nelsoni.