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A Curious Watercraft Mystery
YOU EXPECT TO find some flotsam in the spring, especially on a lake as big as Panache—my lake—after a freshet as intense as the one we got in 2023. But generally, it appears in a prosaic form: bleach bottles, dog toys, plastic drums sprung from the u
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Are Your Trees Healthy? Time For Spring Inspection
LAST YEAR, THREE of my balsam fir trees looked awful—brown needles, tunnels in the bark, piles of sawdust near the roots. A local arborist identified a sawyer longhorn beetle infestation. Unless we cut down the trees—which were dead—the beetles could
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Why Changing Land Trust Use Is Good For The Environment
WHEN WE FIRST went looking for our cottage on Georgian Bay, my husband, Anton, and I asked a cousin and veteran cottager if she had any advice. What questions should we ask of the current owners? What should we look for when we visit the property? We

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