May 2019: Canadian Wildlife Magazine After turning the corner on a remote mountain pass north of Glacier National Park, I stop to catch my breath and gaze upon the emerald waters of Ventego Lake — encircled by imposing mountains with Mordor-like names, including Sorcerer, Mystic and Iconoclast. The first thing that hits me is the fierce September wind, which…
Alberta’s spectacular Bow Valley and environs offer valuable lessons in how humans and wildlife can co-exist. Will we learn them before it is too late?
Monitoring the vital signs of the Cold Amazon.
January 2017: Walrus and Canadian Geographic (Canada 150 Special Issue) Think about nation-building projects in Canada, and one of your first thoughts is likely the transcontinental railway completed less than two decades after the country was born — a monumental effort that connected growing communities and industries across the nation. When Canada turned 125, another…
It’s been six months since the tug ran aground on the British Columbia coast, but local First Nations are still living with the repercussions.
December 2016: Canadian Geographic Wolverines are the essence of wilderness. High in the mountains, they lurk near avalanche paths and earn their Latin name, Gulo gulo (glutton), by gorging on half-buried animals and breaking bones with powerful jaws. They traverse deep snows with plate-sized feet and scale mountain summits so quickly it puts the world’s…
December 2015: Canadian Geographic After flowing some 1,200 kilometres from Canada’s Rocky Mountains, collecting runoff from the Prairies and Boreal Plains, the Saskatchewan River spills into a maze of channels that cut across the low-lying forests and wetlands of the Saskatchewan River Delta. At 10,000 hectares, it’s the largest inland delta in North America, and prime…
