Caitlin Stall-Paquet + Mar Hernández August 21, 2020
For people wanting to help preserve the environment, the wild world of citizen science is a good place to start.
It’s pouring rain when I arrive at the newly opened École d’art de Sutton in Quebec’s Brome–Missisquoi region, about 110 km southeast of Montreal along a river in the wooded foothills of Mont Sutton..... Ecologist and geographer Isabelle Grégoire is setting up her learning material on a long table made out of a tree trunk: a microscope, laminated visual identification aids and a leather case containing vials full of 70% alcohol preserving various specimens. As I peruse a diagram about water pollution, 11–year–old Charlotte Lavigne–Bernard (daughter of the school’s founder, Anne–Marie Lavigne) is busy adjusting the microscope for a close–up look at scarlet beebalm flower petals.
