Summer 2021

Hello all!

Gearing up for Wild Winnipeg’s second (so far, blistering) summer of research, in this first blog post of 2021, allow me to introduce myself. My name is Owen Swendrowski-Yerex. I’m a landscape and urbanism student going into my last year at the University of Manitoba. As the research assistant with Wild Winnipeg, this summer I’ll be maintaining and collecting data from our trail cameras, helping with data visualization and interpretation, spearheading our community outreach efforts, as well as making blog posts. Within the coming weeks, we will be populating this project webpage with recent animal sightings, further blog posts relating to urban wildlife and landscape architecture, and opening up the participation tab, asking the greater community for their animal-encounter testimonials, photos and narratives. I’m very much looking forward to the work ahead of us as well as to hear from you, the people, out in Wild Winnipeg!