Sphagnum moss is an ecosystem engineer like any other. Well, maybe not exactly like any other. It doesn’t build dams like beavers or underwater forests like kelp. Instead it builds bogs. When certain species of sphagnum come together in open wetlands, they constrict the flow of water to a trickle, then rapidly and relentlessly metabolize […]| The Wandering Rook
European Fallow deer have walked Sidney Island, BC, since at least the 1960s, ferried over – best we can tell – by people keen to hunt them. This is not an original story. Fallow deer have been world travellers since the Roman Empire, plucked from their native range in the Mediterranean and set down as […]| The Wandering Rook