Today on the blog, CCNL catches up with María Andrée López Gómez on how to bike into the winter. Maria is a social epidemiologist and has a background in Public Health, Sociology and Demography, and Occupational Health. She is a postdoctoral fellow at the Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI) at Memorial University studying factors related to […]
The North West River Green Team spent the summer caring for the parks, trails and beaches of North West River. McKenzie Hutchings (Team Leader) and Willa Neilsen (Team Member) installed boardwalks on the Tranquility Trail, revitalized the Jenny Redford Park and maintained the North West River Beach. Read about what McKenzie and Willa learned by […]
Municipal Climate Vulnerability Assessment Helps Small Towns Prep for Changing Climate This fall, Conservation Corps NL (CCNL) is working with Brigus, Clarke’s Beach, Cupids and South River to prepare for climate change in their communities as part of a larger asset management project involving these four towns. We’re helping these towns identify what places and […]
Conservation Corps NL and the Rotaract Club of St. John’s spent a day repairing fences at the Newfoundland Pony Heritage Pasture in Cupids. On Saturday, September 26, we teamed up with the Newfoundland Pony Society and the Pony Pals Project to expand the pasture for a herd of seven Newfoundland ponies, a critically endangered breed […]
This summer, Green Team members Autumn Lambert and Colby Sharpe mapped the paths and trails of Carbonear. They also collected stories about the paths histories and what their uses. In this post, Autumn writes about Carbonear’s Slide Paths. What are “Slide Paths”? Slide paths are historical paths that people used to get around and move […]
Michael Gregory is the Team Leader for the Conception Bay South (CBS) Green Team. This is his third year working with Conservation Corps NL and his first working as Team Leader. Michael recently graduated from Queen Elizabeth Regional High School. He is passionate about the outdoors and enjoys hiking and fishing, learning survival skills, and […]
