The Vascular Plants of the Bruce Peninsula is the remarkable life’s work of Joe Johnson, professional biologist and nature lover. While Joe Johnson was raised and educated as a biologist in Nova Scotia, he spent the majority of his working life in Wiarton, Ontario. For more than 40 years he travelled the breadth of the area both on a professional basis as a contract biologist, and as an observer of one of Canada’s richest plant areas. While the Bruce Peninsula has achieved m

If you were to close your eyes and picture a deciduous tree, chances are you would see it in full leaf. In our mind, we tend to remember trees in their summer clothing. It’s what gives deciduous trees their character, fleshes them out and helps us to identify them easily by species. But now that “all the leaves are down and the sky is grey”, how can you tell the trees apart? In the absence of leaves, flowers and fruit, what’s there to go on? Plenty, actually. You can ze