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By contributor James Mackinnon. Read more from the Museum News series. As you read this, one of the ocean’s great feeding frenzies is occurring just...

Surface feeding gray whale. Photo courtesy Jay Feaver. By contributors James Mackinnon & Iona Kearns Perhaps it’s the sheer size of the ocean...

Quercus Garryana aka Garry Oak. Photo  Maleea Acker By contributor James Mackinnon Sitting in the lee of the Vancouver Island mountain range, much...

By contributor James Mackinnon Bugs rule the world, and the sooner we realize this the better. But let’s clarify that. What many of us usually refer...

By contributor James Mackinnon The excuses are endless: “The weather is too nasty,” “Everything’s gone away for the winter,” “I just got a sweet...