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Publisher's Note: For walkers and hikers, Carolinian Ontario offers some of the most beautiful and unusual flora and fauna to be found in Canada, all of it just a short distance from Southwestern Ontario's urban centres. Lying at a latitude that has more in common with northern California than the Great White North, and blessed with a mild climate moderated by the Great Lakes, the forests, prairies, fields and streams of Southwestern Ontario have a long, hospitable growing season. The forests of this region boast 64 native tree species, more than the rainforests of British Columbia, including tulip-tree, black oak, blue ash, cucumber magnolia, sassafras, paw paw, Kentucky coffee, blue beech, pignut hickory, sugar maple and American beech. In spring, migratory songbirds bring the brilliant colours of South and Central America to local woods. In fall, hawks and eagles soar high overhead as they work their way south along the Lake Erie shoreline. Here, many mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles survive at the northern limit of their natural ranges. It's all part of life in Carolinian Ontario.