Canadian Geographic articles from May 1997

Canadian Geographic archives from May 1997

Names spawned from salmon sources.
May 1, 1997... Salmon. An airborne exclamation mark of a fish. They have frisked upstream for millennia, in recent centuries leaving their name in many languages on the map of Canada. Consider the rural community of Plumweseep, N.B, originally named Salmon...

Terms of endangerment. (species and habitat management)
May 1, 1997... Saving species begins with saving spaces for them In my great-grandfather's time, every third land bird in North America was a passenger pigeon. Ranging across Eastern Canada and the United States, these handsome birds moved in flocks so large...

Coho in the culvert. (includes related article on salmon fisheries)
May 1, 1997... It sounds like something out of a guilt-racked fisherman's nightmare. For 16 years, John Kupp was a successful salmon gillnetter who fished the waters of British Columbia's central coast, from Bella Coola to Prince Rupert. Kupp says he was...

Woods work. (selective timber harvesting)
May 1, 1997... In her new book Glass, Paper, Beans, author Leah Hager Cohen set out to trace the point of origin of her morning paper. Her journey led her into the life and labours of a forest worker in Plumweseep, N.B. Brent Boyd does not call himself...

Track 'em down, round 'em up, herd 'em in, Rawhide. (Inuit caribou ranching)
May 1, 1997... After centuries as hunters and gatherers, a struggling Inuit community in northern Quebec tries its hand at herding caribou The last of the early morning moon glows above the vast horizon as a dozen young Inuit men gather on the river ice near...

Seeing the Ocean Through the Trees.
May 1, 1997... Clayoquot sound is an emerald, mist-shrouded Eden of old growth that lies between the glittering ice fields of Vancouver Island's Forbidden Plateau and the thundering Pacific surf. Its ancient, moss-clad stands of fir and cedar form one of the...

Owls: The Silent Fliers.
May 1, 1997... When I typed R. D. Lawrence's name into the computer at my local library, the screen overflowed with titles. In the course of a long career, Lawrence has penned books on almost every significant aspect of Canada's natural heritage, from national...

The Secret Lives of Birds.
May 1, 1997... When I typed R. D. Lawrence's name into the computer at my local library, the screen overflowed with titles. In the course of a long career, Lawrence has penned books on almost every significant aspect of Canada's natural heritage, from national...

Great Canadian Scientists CD-ROM. (Software Review)
May 1, 1997... It is refreshing to see a communications product dedicated to the scientific achievements of Canadian men and women, and Great Canadian Scientists, despite some reservations, is a good one. Living next door to the United States, which does almost...

Studying protests in Temagami.
May 1, 1997... Native people and environmentalists both fight logging, but their goals are at odds When environmental activists descended on Northern Ontario's Temagami region last August, they shackled themselves to bridges, chained themselves to cement...

Grove of solitude. (early memories)
May 1, 1997... In 1955, my father bought 480 acres of land on the southern side of the Qu'Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan. Grove Park, as this district was known locally, had been settled by Finnish homesteaders, probably because the terrain recalled their...