Walking together: Bridging two worlds to protect one landscape

By Cory Bilyea, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Wingham Advance Times HURON COUNTY – Members of Neyaashiinigmiing’s Bagida’waad Alliance joined staff and volunteers from Maitland Conservation for a muddy spring walk on Mar. 26, using bird migration, the history of local trees and changing waters as starting points for collaboration, reconciliation and sharing care for the land. What began as a simple nature hike quickly became something more as two perspectives, shaped by different shorelines and histories, came together around the same urgent question — how do we protect this landscape together? Bagida’waad team members Natasha Akiwenzie (manager), along with her son, Chris Akiwenzie, and biologist Dylan White, led a guided hike along the Maitland River at Wawanosh Park Conservation Area, which used to be known as the Menesetung (laughing water),…

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