Reminds us of Lauren Walker’s 2020 essay “Joker: Leaded Gas at the Oscars” - niche-canada.org/2020/02/07/j... #envhist #envhum

Jess is a legend. Please support @nichecanada.bsky.social !!

Our editor-in-chief, @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social, provides a rundown of the Project Page opportunities at the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE)! November is our fundraising month. Support environmental scholarship! 🔹 niche-canada.org/research/ 🔹 #envhist #envhum #cdnhist #histgeog

"Despite some early dockets focused on transborder pollution, such as in the Detroit River, it wasn’t until after World War II that the American & Canadian governments really got serious about Great Lakes water pollution..." - @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2020/02/26/t... #envhist

Watch - "Music Making History: Gordon Lightfoot & The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - www.youtube.com/watch?v=osAv... Read "Finding Environmental History in 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald'" by @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f... #envhist #musichistory

Nearly a week into our annual November fundraising campaign, and we are 24% of the way there! We would love to see some more of our readers coming in with smaller donations! You can donate as little as $20 CAD ($14.25 USD, $12.30 euro). fundrazr.com/niche2025?re... #envhist #envhum #cdnhist

#OTD (Sun, Nov 8) 1908 at #BoundaryLake, #AlgonquinPark: "Had dinner with MacLaren party & enjoyed a couple of hours’ talk with all hands, where we started back to Headquarters... trusty friends, good sportsmen, who are a credit to their country." @nichecanada.bsky.social @csnrec.bsky.social

This autumn has been ROUGH for parenting/work balance, and thus, I'm just sitting down to promote my @nichecanada.bsky.social #EnvHist worth reading list for September! New list out next Friday. niche-canada.org/2025/10/11/e...

Thank you! I'm very excited to be sharing this research publicly. Those are some crazy numbers and better than I expected. As Ben said, I will also be presenting a talk on some expansions to this research Nov. 8 at the CSTHA conference.

-> @mfeagan.bsky.social mentioned his 2020 @nichecanada.bsky.social article in a comment on a video game YouTube video and it has been read 2,000+ times in the past month. Don't underestimate the potential of bringing up your work in non-academic spaces! #envhist #academia

#OTD (Sun, Nov 8) 1925 at #TraverseLake, #AlgonquinPark: "Morning stormy…at noon the sun came out and all looked grand with the trees shrouded in snow. Frank drew in wood with dog team." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

This is the stuff I’m here for

Today, @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social on "Finding Environmental History in 'The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.'" The Edmund Fitzgerald sank on November 10, 1975 in Lake Superior. niche-canada.org/2025/11/07/f... #envhist #musichistory #greatlakes #envhum

Yesterday I saw an amazing talk by @tinaadcock.bsky.social and today she's kindly visiting my Honors History class. My connection with Tina is exactly the sort of relationship that @nichecanada.bsky.social helps foster, and I'm so grateful for that. If you are too, please consider donating.

"Arctic Pasts and Presents (Presence)" by Tess McCoy is the fifth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/a... #envhist #envhum #arthistory #indigenous #arctic

#OTD (Sat, Nov 7) 1908 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "Mr. Nadon got a horse & wagon & hauled in wood all day. I piled up the same in woodshed & made an attempt at bread baking. Nuff said. Bread no good." @csnrec.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

Its always a pleasure to give back to an organization that contributes so much to our field. Support NiCHE! @nichecanada.bsky.social fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

This little bird survived a volcanic eruption! Buried by volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, this Roman fresco of a little bird pecking at fruit re-emerged looking as delightful as it did some 2,000 years ago! Villa Poppaea, ancient Oplontis, Italy 📷 by me #FrescoFriday #Archaeology

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth Reading "Indigenous Mascots, Senate Bill 116, and UNC’s Satirical 'Fightin’ Whites' Basketball Team: An Interview with Solomon Little Owl" by Karen Barton niche-canada.org/2021/11/25/i... #ushistory #indigenoushistory #indigenous

Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada "Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...

Our editor, @peterastevens.bsky.social, sat down with Gregory Klages of the @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social project in "The Algonquin Diaries: Reflections of an Early-20th-Century Park Ranger." niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/t... #envhist #cdnhist #parkhistory

Virtual Event – Waste, Epidemics, and Human Health in Environmental Studies Rethinking Ukraine’s Environment: War, Ecocide, and Beyond An International Seminar Series Thursday – 4 December 2025 10 a.m. MST (Edmonton) / 12 p.m. EDS (Toronto) niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/v... #envhist #envstudies

"'Too Dangerous a Job': Forced Child Labour & Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School" by Blake Butler is the latest in the Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & C. Fraser niche-canada.org/2025/11/04/t...

Call for Applicants – Vimy Pilgrimage Award - @thevimyfoundation.bsky.social This fully funded educational program, brings together students, aged 15-17, from across Canada to visit First World War sites and memorials in Belgium and France from April 3 to 11, 2026 niche-canada.org/2025/11/04/c...

Researchers, hunters study how oilsands noise might impact moose hunting "@peterfortna.bsky.social said community interviews revealed that industrial noise and landscape changes are believed to be impacting how people hunt and how successful they are at calling moose." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today on @nichecanada.bsky.social, historian Gregory Klages discusses his latest project: publishing the diaries of Mark Robinson, who served as Park Ranger in Ontario's Algonquin Park for thirty years. @rgrmarkrobinson.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/05/t...

springs-rcc.org/eagles-marmo... A fantastic tale of #conservation and #care in logged landscapes. Rich in personal detail - free-to-air with #Springs @carsoncenter.bsky.social Congratulations @monicavasile.bsky.social @esehnextgate.bsky.social @iceho.bsky.social @nichecanada.bsky.social

"These stories are part of the environmental history of Indian residential schools: a history of energy, Land, and exploitation. Remembering them means acknowledging the children who were harmed and refusing to let their labour remain invisible."

"Forced wood cutting and hauling at Chooutla was not a benign lesson in self-reliance. It was a system that endangered children, stole their classroom time, and transferred institutional heating costs onto their bodies."

In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.

Happy and excited to support @nichecanada.bsky.social again this year. Still publishing great work and leading the field of environmental history in Canada. Please consider making a contribution too! #envhist #cdnhist fnd.us/niche2025

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#OTD (Sun, Nov 3) 1918 at #JoeLake, #AlgonquinPark: "I went for a walk around our wolf traps. Saw fresh tracks of foxes, skunks, & deer. I have never seen the woods in the Park so inviting for a ramble as this morn at this season of the year." @nichecanada.bsky.social @csnrec.bsky.social

I used to think that a watershed was a fairly immutable physical concept but yesterday the GoA passed an order in council including the Upper Smoky basin within the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan. Bizarre. BTW the plan will "provide continued opportunities for coal development." #ableg #abpoli

Just published my first piece in The Conversation, based on my recent SAHJ article💧 theconversation.com/access-to-wa...

Today our Director, Andrew Watson, launches our 2025 November Fundraising Campaign! We are aiming to raise $16,000 over the next three weeks. If you appreciate the work that we do daily for #envhist & #envhum, for free, consider sending us $20 CAD our way! niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/l...

Today we have "The Unclassifiable Arctic: René-Yves Creston and his Boreal Representations: Ethnology, Art, Marine Studies, and Polar Visuals" by Anatole Danto This is the fourth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series. niche-canada.org/2025/11/03/t... #envhist

Don't miss the @deindustrialpol.bsky.social virtual roundtable this Friday! Policies and Programs: Deindustrialization and the Environment Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time Friday November 7th at 9:30am Eastern Time niche-canada.org/2025/10/29/v... #envhist #envstudies

New Comment: "Based on our website stats, quite a few! Glad that you enjoyed Michael’s research, Miqual." - @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2020/07/16/e... #envhist #energyhistory #urbanhistory

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Today marks the first day of the annual @nichecanada.bsky.social fundraising drive! NiCHE 100% made me the scholar I am today, and I'm not alone. All donations, big and small, help the network do great things: fnd.us/niche2025?re... #EnvHist #HistSTM #CdnHist

Tusind tak Erik, Sara og #InnovationSouthGreenland! It was great working in partnership with you speaking with local hunters in Kalaallit Nunaat for the "Seals, Stigma and Survival" project @nichecanada.bsky.social @cwswarstudies.bsky.social @sduarctic.bsky.social @arcticcouncil.bsky.social

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It was a pleasure working with @adelinekpiercy.bsky.social! This is such a spectacular addition to the series. So freakin’ cool!

I spoke with Matt Preprost about the water issues facing NE B.C. as #climatechange intersects with municipal and industrial #water use. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social

Just submitted a grant that asked for recent "contributions to training" - MA & PhD supervisions. My list was of histories of kudzu, snow, highways, oil & gas dev, sand sucking, alternative service work, NASA missions, the blind in nature, POW camps, & yellow fever. History prof = no comfort zone.

A great read on the need to preserve the historic #lighthouses of #California. #MaritimeHistory #CoastalHistory

@catherinemax.bsky.social and I are convening a practitioner/policy/academic roundtable and discussion covering themes such as inclusion in public spaces. Also featuring the work of @draflint.bsky.social (who is speaking at the event) and myself as part of All Footsteps. Get in touch if interested!