BRAS D’OR BIOSPHERE: Performing mergansers

It is November in the Bras d’Or Lake Biosphere and in the Mi’kmaw calendar that is “rivers starting to freeze time” (Keptekiwiku’s). Although we attempt to track Mi’kmaw months as our common months based on the Julian calendar, they are not really equivalent. There are actually 13 moon cycles in the traditional Mi’kmaw calendar every…