Fragile Inheritance
Understanding
ecological change
in Canada
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Mission: Fragile Inheritance promotes and supports the long term study of species and habitats, human & environmental effects on them, and the conservation of biodiversity, based on the lifetime work of Fred Schueler & Aleta Karstad.

"I am increasingly convinced that the study of biodiversity is far and away the most important endeavor in the history of humanity, certainly until now, and very possibly into the future as well. . . . Unlike physics, unlike chemistry, unlike geology, the clock is ticking on our ability to capture this information before it's gone. Forever."

Richard Pyle, Bishop Museum, Hawaii
Fragile Inheritance
6 St-Lawrence St
Bishops Mills Oxford Station
Ontario, Canada KOG 1T0
(613) 299-3107
info@fragileinheritance.ca

Personnel

Fragile Inheritance Staff

Fred Schueler - Reseach Director/Curator

Aleta Karstad - Executive Director/Artist

Owen Clarkin - General Research Associate (woody plants, environmental chemistry)

David Hooey - Technician (database specialist, webmaster, owner Blue Anchora)

Helpers

Matt Keevil - Research Associate

Judy Courteau - Field Assistant

Mannie Giles - Field Assistant

Clay Shearer - General Naturalist

John Barclay - Videographer

What can we do to increase awareness of habitat loss, invasive species, and human impact on nature?

There is no other independent organized group in Canada which is dedicated to promoting long term monitoring. This is your chance to support the work of Fragile Inheritance.
About the book...
FRAGILE INHERITANCE:
a painter's ecology of glaciated North America

lavishly illustrated with watercolours and
descriptive prose from sea to sea
drawing the baseline for
a legacy of beauty and
change - Aleta Karstad
and Frederick W .
Schueler's life work