Zack Metcalfe
Freelance Journalist at Freelance
I'm a freelance conservation and travel journalist, author, and columnist based in Salmon Arm, BC. Email me at [email protected]
Articles
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1 month ago |
explore-mag.com | Zack Metcalfe
“Take two minutes,” said the man with the gun. His name was Wayne Broomfield, and his job was to stand between us simple tourists and the bears of northern Labrador. Day after day, fjord after fjord, he walked ahead with a 12-gauge shotgun slung over one shoulder and binoculars round his neck, watching for any ravenous white specks loping over the tundra.
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2 months ago |
nationalobserver.com | Zack Metcalfe
Forests with a greater diversity of trees sequester more carbon, and in a way, this isn’t surprising. Different trees employ different survival strategies — a preference for shade or full sunlight, acidic or basic soils, partnerships with some bacteria and fungi over others, etc. The more strategies one crams into a given forest, the more efficiently that forest’s resources can be used.
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2 months ago |
treefrogcreative.ca | Zack Metcalfe |Kevin Mason |David Elstone |Denise Mullen
Tree diversity is the key to forest survival By Zack Metcalfe The National Observer February 21, 2025 Category: Forestry Region: Canada, Canada East NEW BRUNSWICK — Anthony Taylor is an associate professor with the University of New Brunswick specializing in the relationship between forestry and climate.
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Jan 6, 2025 |
nationalobserver.com | Zack Metcalfe |Max Fawcett
Individual sheets of fibreglass are notoriously difficult to recycle. Once layered together with resin — to form bathtubs, roofing panels, or aircraft components — peeling them back apart usually means shredding the end product into tiny pieces, then submerging them in tubs of heated solvent under high pressure. Needless to say, the recovered shreds of fibre and glass are not especially useful, or cheap.
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Oct 9, 2024 |
thewanderingrook.ca | Zack Metcalfe
It was a little like chasing ghosts. Every trail was pulverized with fresh hoofprints, peppered with fresh dung and plastered with fresh mats of fur, as if a stampede had roared through only seconds before. I could even hear them at times, grunting methodically as they tore at grass somewhere within earshot, or moved in urgent masses from one pasture to the next. But I couldn’t see them, their steepled shoulders and dangling jaws somehow lost among the stumpy spruce of Elk Island National Park.
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This was the year of bison. Over six months I toured several of the sites to which they’ve been reintroduced in Alberta and Saskatchewan, then spent weeks at my desk trying to put their return into context. The result was published by Rewilding Magazine. https://t.co/z1lJgJ01lZ
RT @CSLyons: Knife-sharp, nuanced writing on the return of bison to North America by @Zack_Metcalfe (my fave @rewildingmag feature yet!) 👇…
RT @ClimatestoryNS: Sharing our first new story for this week: A game-changing ocean crop with almost non-existent farm-to-table carbon emi…