NatureList

The Eastern Ontario NatureList has been running as a listserv for sharing nature observations, for over 25 years Aleta has been its list manager, and Fred its monitor. Its members are researchers, naturalists, and nature-lovers from all over Eastern Ontario, with a few outliers who love to keep up with what’s going on here.



The NatureList is not a discussion forum or noticeboard, but a simple e-mail list, which sends each post to all subscribers, who can read and comment back to the list. We share experiences and sightings, small photos, and announcements of nature-related events. We ask questions, respond with advice, and help each other with species identifications.

Membership is only “by invitation” through contact with us at info@fragileinheritance.ca As the NatureList is geographically limited, it is not an overwhelmingly busy list, mostly active in little spurts as members respond to posts of interest.

• “Has anyone seen Dandelions yet?”


• “We have an Ermine in out woodshed”


• “It seems that Wild Turkeys are more numerous this year”


• “What kind of salamander is this? We found it in our basement”


• “We just saw a pair of Kestrels mating!”


• “How do Sticklebacks get into my pond when the creek is so far away?”


• “What should we do about Wild Parsnip along the front of our place?”


• “There are little piles of large banded snail shells all through our woods this spring”


• “Coltsfoot is already blooming in Gananoque”

The NatureList is automatically archived on the server, but we are looking for help to convert the e-mails into database records, to mine the wealth of information the NatureList has gathered through the years.