Ain't Life Wild is a blog about the plants and animals of Northwestern Ontario, the environment, climate change and life in the world's largest ecosystem, the Boreal Forest.
There's bluebird weather in the forecast the next two weeks and that makes me move my final ice-out prediction to May 1 or one week earlier than "normal."
We deserve a nice spring after some of the crappy ones in the last few years.
We got about a foot of snow last week here in the Thunder Bay area. That was the first snowfall since early January. The ground was bare almost the entire winter. Red Lake did not get this dump but does have some snow, just less than this.