Canadian Geographic articles from May 2000

Canadian Geographic archives from May 2000

WATER.
May 1, 2000... By Marq de Villiers Stoddart Publishing, 413 pp., $34.95 hardcover THAT WATER will be the oil of the 21st century has recently become a well-worn refrain among journalists, pollsters and analysts of all types. But few have examined the...

FARMAGEDDON.
May 1, 2000... Food and the Culture of Biotechnology By Brewster Kneen New Society Publishers, 231 pp., $19.95 softcover THE APOCALYPTIC title of Brewster Kneen's analysis of genetically engineered crops and foods sets the tone for his bold...

NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE.
May 1, 2000... By David Jones Whitecap Books 304 pp., $45 hardcover WILDLIFE books are published by the truckload, and many of them present the natural history of a single species. North American Wildlife stands out from the rest by classifying many...

SWITGHBACKS.
May 1, 2000... True Stories from the Rocky Mountains By Sid Marty McClelland & Stewart 256 pp., $29.99 hardcover SID MARTY is passionate about the Rocky Mountains and writes about his stretch of the back forty in the classic genre of nature...

The troubling plight of our wilderness playgrounds.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... PHANTOM PARKS The Struggle to Save Canada's National Parks By Rick Searle Key Porter Books 264 PP., $19.95 softcover FEW CANADIANS know that our national parks are in crisis. Phantom Parks offers a clear and passionate account...

Grappling with Sydney's tarred legacy.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... FREDERICK STREET Life and Death on Canada's Love Canal By Maude Barlow and Elizabeth May HarperCollins 256 pp., $32 hardcover IN THIS INFURIATING volume, one of Canada's best-known environmentalists teams up with its most...

Bees for hire.(pollination business)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... THE RELATIONSHIP between plant and pollinator has, for millions of years, been a mutually beneficial one: pollinators gather nectar for nourishment; in the process, plants have their pollen spread, allowing them to proliferate. The interaction...

FROM THE PROJECTIONIST.
May 1, 2000... MICHAEL HELM by permission of Douglas and McIntyre NOW PAST the valley flats and the rolling climb to level prairie I turn east and then north, pulling a funnel of earth towards town, twelve miles ahead and edged into the morning like...

Caught in Niagara's currents.(memories of Niagara Falls)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... MY FATHER once owned a drugstore within roaring distance of the American side of Niagara Falls. I worked in it as a child in the 1950s, serving the international clientele that the falls and our store attracted. I remember Asians, East Indians...

ON THE LOOKOUT.(Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network in Mont-Saint-Hilaire)
May 1, 2000... Quebec's Mont-Saint-Hilaire becomes a sentinel in a nationwide environmental early-warning network FROM THE SHORE of tiny Lac Hertel, in the centre of the Mont-Saint-Hilaire World Biosphere Reserve east of Montreal, McGill University...

Farewell to an arctic explorer.(Moira Dunbar)(Obituary)
May 1, 2000... MOIRA DUNBAR was an actress, a glaciologist, an arctic researcher, an author and, finally, a hobby farmer -- all in an era when women's roles were defined by marriage and motherhood. She was also a linguist, speaking Russian, German and French,...

Down to Earth.(Roberta Bondar photography exhibit)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Astronaut Roberta Bondar explores the beauty of Canada's national parks through a camera lens SHE HAS LOOKED at our big blue planet through a space shuttle window and through a microscope. Now, astronaut and scientist Roberta Bondar is...

CG video series.
May 1, 2000... IF YOU MISSED the popular Canadian Geographic documentary series on the Discovery Channel Last season, relax. Seven videos, exploring everything from rare Kermode bears in British Columbia to the mysteries of glaciers have been released as part...

A green exhibit.(Expo 2000)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... VISITORS TO Expo 2000 in Hannover, Germany, this summer, will find respite from the crowds in this eight-metre-high "virtual forest" in the Canadian Pavilion, supported by Canadian Geographic. The Canadian Ecology Centre (CEC) uses nature...

From swamp-ugly to wetland harmony.(preserving Canada's National Parks)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... EVER COME across a landscape that could only be described as pug-ugly? Okay, some strip malls and maybe those wastelands on the edge of every city where junkyards and waste-oil outfits and slaughterhouses tend to locate. But I mean an...

REVERBERATIONS.(Grouse Mountain avalanche)
May 1, 2000... Eyewitness account I WAS CAUGHT in the avalanche on Grouse Mountain last winter with the late Rory Manning (Risk and rescue, CG Mar/Apr 2000). I agree with writer Shawn Blore that people are often unprepared when they venture into the...

WWF goes to the mat for Canada's oceans.(World Wildlife Fund Canada's campaign)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... FORGET CACTUS Jack or Scotty Too Hotty or any of their Wrestlemania opponents. There is a new WWF Main Event in town, and this show is for real. This summer, World Wildlife Fund Canada (WWF) will launch a decade-long campaign to protect...

Will the nose know?(breeding grapes to withstand Ontario's winter)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... AH, THE BOUQUET. How to describe this new vintage... the nose fruity and light, with hints of tangerine. It would put any Chardonnay in its place. Would you believe it came from a Sudbury vineyard? Okay, maybe Sudbury, Ont., is a bit...

Dam deconstruction.(promoting river flow for fish)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... A DECISION to decommission a British Columbia dam has observers wondering when -- not if -- other hydroelectric installations in Canada will be dismantled to provide free-flowing rivers for fish. The Theodosia River diversion dam, about 140...

Silencing the croakers.
May 1, 2000... One more disappearing amphibian is added to the endangered list THE OREGON spotted frog of British Columbia's Lower Mainland makes a point of avoiding risks. Seldom seen out of water, it prefers the safety of the marsh, where its shiny,...

Blowin' in the wind.(air pollution rating of Canada's cities)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
May 1, 2000... Canada's smoggiest places GET OUT YOUR GAS MASKS: May is the beginning of smog season, which lasts until September. Smog is caused largely by the burning of fossil fuels in power plants, factories, homes and vehicles. It is made up of fine...

Puddle to pond.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Unleashing nature's amazing profusion THE BEAVERS STARTED IT. They stuffed sticks and mud in the culvert under the lane and, before long, there was standing water where damp ground and pussy willows had been. By fall, there was water over a...

Owl influx.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Northern Alberta hosts a big bird banquet IN LATE JANUARY, I drove 2,250 kilometres from Calgary to the northern reaches of Alberta, just south of the Northwest Territories border. As much as I love winter, though, I had made the...

WATER WORKS.
May 1, 2000... Freshwater supplies are drying up in many countries, but Canadians still treat their water as an unlimited resource. What course should a national water policy take? IT IS EASY to get misty-eyed about water, to say the most portentous and...

Green rebirth.
May 1, 2000... How three decades of grassroots determination cleaned up Sudbury's industrial gloom AMID MID THE EARLY-autumn colours, the young jack pines on a steep slope near Sudbury, Ont., are especially lush, green and large. A barely discernible...