Within PEI’s landscape are inconspicuous, often-overlooked plants that are the only living relatives of species that grew here long before dinosaurs walked the Earth: meet Horsetails (Equisetum spp, with Equisetum sylvaticum shown). About 290 million years ago, the sediments that would eventually become PEI’s sandstone bedrock were being deposited in the centre of the supercontinent Pangea, near the equator. Growing among these sediments were dense forests, including trees ca

Some may say that PEI is geologically boring, but I think nothing could be further from the truth! Our sandstone bedrock holds...

Humans think in decades, forests operate in centuries, but the land’s timeframe spans hundreds of millions of years. We can read...

Sites where human and natural histories meet are always interesting, and PEI’s offshore islands are great examples of this. They tell...

I hope you didn’t find a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking, but did you know you can find it along PEI’s shores? Let’s start the...