How Saint John’s abandoned buildings might soon be converted into housing

In 2007, the conservation biologist J. Bruce Falls and his wife, Ann Falls, published a research paper that began: “We trapped deer mice in Algonquin Park, Ontario, Canada, over a 36-year period.”For Prof. Falls, who was 83 at the time, it was a matter-of-fact statement. For those who understood the challenge of conducting long-term field studies before the era of digital archiving, it could only be the product of someone with an extraordinary motivation and passion for understanding the hidden rhythms of the natural world.