Canadian Geographic articles from July 1998

Canadian Geographic archives from July 1998

Geoducks and camas: Pacific food words. (Canadian delicacies)
July 1, 1998... Gooeyduck is slurpy slang for a tasty clam that inhabits Pacific tideland mud. I once ate geoduck - or gooeyduck as it is pronounced and sometimes spelled - near Tofino on Vancouver Island's rugged Pacific coast. With a razor-keen cleaver, the...

New endangered species plan unveiled. (inclusion of the Atlantic cod in the list of endangered plan)
July 1, 1998... Cod listing shows that mixing politics and science compromises the integrity of decisions, say conservationists After four years of study and months of often acrimonious debate, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada...

Healing fire. (includes related article on the use of prescribed burns)
July 1, 1998... Sometimes saving a forest means setting it on fire The stand of lodgepole pine is so dense that a basketball would barely pass between the trunks. Trees lean in every direction, forming a continuous bower above the trail. Many are dying or...

Rock hardy. (preservation of Newfoundland ponies)
July 1, 1998... Thanks to some smart and caring breeders, the tiny but tough Newfoundland pony is making a comeback from near extinction The diminutive colt with stubby ears and thick black coat looks a little out of place romping across a farm field on the...

Dunn's crossing. (expeditionist John Dunn's adventure in northern British Columbia)
July 1, 1998... Adventurer John Dunn and friends undertake a daunting journey the Pacific coast and through the roadless interior of northern British Columbia An image out of time, the Northwest canoe Loo Seult sits motionless on the evening glass of the...

Shooting for the clouds. (prevention of hailstorms)
July 1, 1998... When hailstorms threaten central Alberta, aircraft scramble into the skies armed with chemical flares to strip the icy danger from the clouds From the cockpit of his speeding plane, all the world is a streaking mass of grey cloud to pilot Jeff...

My Heart on the Yukon River: Portraits from Alaska and the Yukon.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By Monique Dykstra Washington State University Press 126 pp., $34.95 softcover Down the Yukon River went Monique Dykstra and a friend in the summer of 1993, paddling a canoe more than 3,200 kilometres through the Yukon Territory and Alaska....

At the Cutting Edge: The Crisis in Canada's Forests.(Brief Article)
July 1, 1998... By Elizabeth May Key Porter Books 294 pp., $34.95 softcover For those who cherish and enjoy Canada's seemingly inexhaustible wilderness, Elizabeth May has delivered an urgent appeal. In painstaking detail, she has analysed the state of Canada's...

Passion for geography pays off. (winners of the fourth annual Great Canadian Challenge)
July 1, 1998... A photographic memory and an obsession with geography led to an Ontario sweep at the fourth annual Great Canadian Geography Challenge. Mark Laurie, 15, of Toronto took the top prize, followed by Pembroke's Alexander Schull, 14. Placing third...

Honours for Wonders never cease. (geographer William Wonders)
July 1, 1998... If a book were written about the life and times of university professor William C. Wonders, the title could simply read: The History of Geography in Canada. And there would be no shortage of achievements to list on the book jacket. It was...

Geography education gets boost. (funding in support of geographic education in Canada)
July 1, 1998... Denis St-Onge laughs now but admits there was a "typically Canadian" reaction when a long-time friend of The Royal Canadian Geographical Society called with an offer that could one day lead to the creation of a $2 million (U.S.) fund to support...

Hesquiaht - a people, a place and a language.
July 1, 1998... There are no roads that can take us here. Not even the network of over-grown logging roads will lead us to this pristine place. We travel by boat, across miles made long by open Pacific water, to tuck ourselves behind the reefs and swells into...