MTRI is a non-profit co-operative with a mandate to promote sustainable use of natural resources and biodiversity conservation in the Southwest Nova Biosphere Reserve and beyond through research, education, and the operation of a field station.
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2017
Equal opportunity: Workshop series highlights forestry career options for women - January 2017
Living the dream: Living energy laboratory a success - Febuary 15, 2017
For the love of turtles - Febuary 21, 2017
NSCC students bring skills to communities through province - March 13, 2017
Turtle time: Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute celebrates turtles - March 15, 2017
2016
Call of the Loon - March 1, 2016
Endangered Nova Scotia Lichen on the Decline - June 21, 2016
The Monarchs Have Landed: Sightings of First Monarch Butterfly of Season in Kings County - July 2016
Tracking Turtles (part 1) - August 2, 2016
Tracking Turtles (part 2) - August 2, 2016
Discovery of a bat colony - August 5, 2016
Turtle Researchers Hit the Jackpot - August 9, 2016
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The Vanishing Lichen is our Fault - October 24, 2016
The Cold-Blooded Species of Kejimkujik - October 31, 2016
Money well spent: Conservation group can always use your support - Decembre 14, 2016
Bats in the Belfry - December 16, 2016
The Monarchs Have Landed - 2016
The Monarchs Fight their way Back to N.S. - 2016
2015
Learn about nature at the Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute - 2015
North Queens student recieves bursary - June 30, 2015
Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute has tips to protect the Monarch Butteryfly - July 28, 2015
Bees and Butterflies - March 10, 2015
Have you hard the buzz - March 10, 2015
2014
Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute makes a list and checks it twice Part 1 - 2014
Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute makes a list and checks it twice Part 2 - 2014
MTRI gets gold for green building - 2014
Opportunities at our new Community Forest - March 24, 2014
Researchers looking for rare birds Part 1 - July 22, 2014
Researchers looking for rare birds Part 2 - July 22, 2014
MTRI Volunteer recognized - August 19, 2014
Local woodlot part of Woodlot Management Mentorship Program - October 28, 2014
David Myles teams up with MTRI - November 4, 2014
2013
New student bursary supports conservation (Clapp bursary) - 2013
Work begins on proposed community forest Part 1 - January 22, 2013
Work begins on proposed community forest Part 2 - January 22, 2013
Creating Markets and Awarness for Sustainable Forestry - January 29, 2013
Governer's tour - May 21, 2013
Managing your woodlot for the future Worshop - June 11, 2013
Only twenty-one are left Part 1 - June 25, 2013
Only twenty-one are left Part 2 - June 25, 2013
Keji earns national conservation honour - June 25, 2013
Nova Scotia to Protect New Species at Risk - July 16, 2013
Restoring an ecosystem - August 6, 2013
Loon rescuers Part 1 - August 6, 2013
Loon rescuers Part 2 - August 6, 2013
Officially protected Part 1 - August 6, 2013
Officially protected Part 2 - August 6, 2013
Community forest plans - August 20, 2013
Celebrating our woodlots: Woodland Owner of the Year Day - October 1, 2013
A Woodland festival in a "truly remarkable woodlot" Part 1 - October 15, 2013
A Woodlant festival in a "truly remarkable woodlot" Part 2 - October 15, 2013
2012
Things that go flap in the night (Flying squirrel) - March 7, 2012
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MTRI partners with 1% for the Planet - June 5, 2012
North Queens couple named woodlot owners of the year - September 25, 2012
A turtle for Chrismas - December 4, 2012
What's in a number ? - December 11, 2012
Overwhelming support for buying Bowater lands Part 1 - December 11, 2012
Overwhelming support for buying Bowater lands Part 2 - December 11, 2012
2011
Huddling on a beach long after dark - 2011
Workshop on wildlife, woodlots and forest heath Part 1 - April 5, 2011
Workshop on wildlife, woodlots and forest heath Part 2 - April 5, 2011
Five years and thousand of plants Part 1 - June 7, 2011
Five years and thousand of plants Part 2 - June 7, 2011
The futur has landed in Kempt, Queens County Part 1 - October 25, 2011
The futur has landed in Kempt, Queens County Part 2 - October 25, 2011
2010
Rare, endangered lichens found on super tree in Richmond Country - January 14, 2010
Rare lichen found in local forest - January 20, 2010
Rare forest gem found in Cape Breton - January 20, 2010
MTRI surveying rare lichen Part 1 - January 26, 2010
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MTRI surveying rare lichen Part 2 - January 26, 2010
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Minister's vist to MTRI - January 26, 2010
Sterling Belliveau comes to visit - January 26, 2010
Salamanders and Bear Falls - April 6, 2010
MTRI looking to expand Part 1 - April 13, 2010
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MTRI looking to expand Part 2 - April 13, 2010
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New librairies and mores Salamaders - April 13, 2010
MTRI granted research funds - May 25, 2010
Cape Breton lichen lifeline - June, 2010
Forest Stewardship Council - June 29, 2010
Research helps baby turtles - August 15, 2010
MTRI nets $ 125,00 in funding announcement - October 26, 2010
MTRI holding Woodland Demonstration Day - November 10, 2010
2009
Organic food production hotly debated - 2009
In Queens County, the woods are alive with people - 2009
In Kempt, the day of the black bear - 2009
A change in the management of forest - 2009
MTRI Butterfly Garden - Spring 2009
Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute - Spring, 2009
Identified learning - March 31, 2009
Lakes, loons and water quality - April 28, 2009
Tough times for Keji fish - September 8, 2009
Empower youth retreat held at Keji - October 13, 2009
A day on firewood and restoring the forest - November 24, 2009
Wood Education - December 8, 2009
2008
Remarkable world of lichens - Febuary 12, 2008
Queens mill owners battling market storm - March 4, 2008
Freeman mill in Greenfield weathers storm - March 11, 2008
Moose Day in Kempt - March 18, 2008
A Kempt bear hug - March 31, 2008
MTRI - A cause to believe in - May 6, 2008
The rural classroom - May 15, 2008
Once a biologist, always a biologist - June 10, 2008
Scientist find rare, endangered lichen in wilds of South Shore - July 15, 2008
Monarch butterflies considered at risk Part 1 - August 7, 2008
Monarch butterflies considered at risk Part 2 - August 7, 2008
Into the Tobeatic wilderness - November 25, 2008
Research institute supporters - November 25, 2008
Volunteers Changing the face of Southwest Nova Scotia - December 9, 2008
Year in review Part 1 - December 30, 2008
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Year in review Part 2 - December 30, 2008
2007
Research Institute wants local ice observers - 2007
Naturalist members visit old forest - May, 2007
Revisiting an ancient water route - July 10, 2007
The wilderness next door - July 17, 2007
Climate change - August 28, 2007
Learning from forest at Windhorse Farm - November 20, 2007
2006
A great idea takes shape in North Queens - Febuary 15, 2006
Mersey institute reaches milestones - July 18, 2006
Scientifists bio-blitz North Queens - August 1, 2006
CARP settling into new home - August 24, 2006
Reseach center plans open house - December 12, 2006
2005
Research institute plans local projects - January 26, 2005
Local research institute launches seminar series - July 6, 2005
Research Institute to host open house - December 14, 2005
Research institute to probe laker and rivers - September 21, 2005
