MOUNTAIN LIFE - Blue Mountains | Fall 2017

FALL 2017 ML BLUE 87 Excerpted with permission from Heart Of Turtle Island: The Niagara Escarpment , a photography book by Mark Zelinski, pub. 2017, from The Heart Publishing. The book is available at MarkZelinski.com , at Indigo/Chapters/ Coles, select local bookstores and in the S S Chi-Cheemaun gift shop. Award-winning photographer Mark Zelinski has travelled to all seven continents to create many internationally acclaimed photography books. His lifelong appreciation of the Escarpment inspired him to create his ninth book, which brings exquisite focus to the environmental treasures of this landform and to the diverse native and settler communities that thrive along its rugged, curving path. Peter Kelly is Coordinator, Cootes to Escarpment EcoPark System, Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington. As the decades, centuries and millennia unfold before us, how comfortable should we be with further change to the Niagara Escarpment? Yellow warbler. MARK ZELINSKI