Latest Stories
Below you will find ten of Dave's recent publications.
Dave is a freelance writer and author exploring Canada's natural history through the fascinating people who research, work, and play in our wild spaces.
BC Fossil Hunters, his forthcoming children's book for 8-12-year-olds, is set to be released in 2027.
You can find his freelance work on VancouverIslandHistory.com, and in The Discourse, CV Collective, and Watershed Sentinel.
Dave is privileged and grateful to work and study on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish, Kwakwaka’wakw, and Nuu-chah-nulth Peoples and pay respect to their rich cultural heritage and natural environment.
Latest Stories
This Comox Valley waterway remains a crucial fish habitat, and the story of its protection began with the Morrison Creek lamprey.
For more than 50 years, political upheaval south of the border has benefitted the Comox Valley.
This Comox Valley group helps steward the Brooklyn Creek watershed. But five years ago, it was on the verge of collapse. Here's how it came back.
The untold story behind a Comox Valley fossil discovery by Mike and Heather Trask and 'the incredible importance of curiosity.'
Explore the history of Lewis Park Courtenay, the floods that shaped it, and the efforts to protect this Comox Valley landmark.
As this year's Comox Valley bat count kicks off, the flying mammals remain at risk of white-nose syndrome.
In 1979, a certain smell sustained the herring gillnetters of British Columbia. It hung from their bibs and clung to their fingernails.
You've probably seen me around town before. I'm everyone's favourite stretch of asphalt. The name's Ryan . . . Ryan Road.
How the criminal career of a notorious northwest coast pirate came to an abrupt end.
Underground explorers on Vancouver Island are charting Canada's longest cave, hoping to win protection for a fragile karst landscape