Raffle Winners! 
The 2020 raffle winners were Amy McBride, who won the Terry Issac print (donated by Jane Walsh)  and Sandra Matheson who won the Gift Basket (donated by Parkland Garden Centre). Congratulations to the winners and our sincere thanks to the donors! 

Motus Tower
We are pleased to announce that our new Motus tower – the first in Alberta – is up and running. On hand to cut the ribbon was Lisa Priestley of Strix Consulting, who partnered with some of the project logistics. Former board member and Motus project coordinator, Leo de Groot, had the honour of officially plugging in the system! 

BEAVER BONES EXHUMED
As most EBF followers know, we had beavers on the site between 2010 and 2015. They disappeared in the fall of 2015. In the spring of 2016, we found two decomposing corpses floating in the pond. We removed the corpses from the water, wrapped them in wire mesh and placed them on anthills in the West Woods. 

Last week, we finally retrieved the bodies from the anthills. Interestingly, one body must have been so badly decomposed that the head had already fallen off in the water because there were only bones, no skull, found among the remains. 

But it was what we found in the other cage that was so amazing. There, amongst the bones, was the skull of an adult beaver. Tucked in the detritus was also the tiny skull of a baby beaver! So, it appears that we buried a mother (we speculate that it was June) who was pregnant when she died. We have both skulls on display in the Visitor Centre. ​