White-tailed deer leap into cover of thick prairie grass and owls take flight from branches in the groves of aspen and oak — many felled by beavers and offering shelter to rabbits — while turtles poke their heads up from the wetlands.
Winnipeg’s Assiniboine Forest can sometime feel like a Disney scene.
It is the largest urban forest in Canada, at 285 hectares, and home to a variety of wildlife, dozens of songbirds and hundreds of plants, some rare.
But it might have ended up looking like any other suburban area in the city, if not for the stock market crash in 1929.
Many of the 18 kilometres of trails — bordered today by Roblin and Shaftesbury boulevards,
