Canadian Geographic articles from September 2002

Canadian Geographic archives from September 2002

The bear whisperer. (Lectures).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... NEVER RUN from a bear Charlie Russell's parents cautioned him and his siblings when they were growing up on a ranch in southwestern Alberta's grizzly country. That bit of wisdom has stayed with Russell (RIGHT) through more than 40 years of...

Cyber-competing. (Geography Challenge).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... STUDENTS and teachers preparing for this year's Great Canadian Geography Challenge now have a new tool to help them along. A brand-new website allows visitors to test their skills with archived questions from previous challenges and to follow...

Topping Ellesmere. (Documentaries).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... IN JUNE, when author, photographer and adventurer Jerry Kobalenko reached the summit of Ellesmere Island's Barbeau Peak, the highest North American summit east of the Rockies, he felt compelled to call the man who'd inspired this trip and some...

It's in our nature. (Television).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... WHAT BETTER WAY to learn more about the world than from the experts themselves? Astronaut Roberta Bondar, paleobiologist Richard Harington and volcanologist Catherine Hickson are but a few of the renowned Canadian scientists who share their...

Outport renewal. (Gold Medal).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... FOR A SMALL, largely uninhabited outport, Battle Harbour, on the southeast tip of Labrador, has a rather distinguished reputation. It is considered one of North America's oldest northern settlements. And thanks to the efforts of Gordon Slade,...

Heartache falls. (Editor's Notebook).(renaming Virginia Falls, Northwest Territories)(Brief Article)(Editorial)
September 1, 2002... VIRGINIA MOXHAM was a teenager when her daddy swept in from one of his wild northern adventures, having rafted down yet another uncharted river, to announce that he was leaving his wife for his secretary. The break with his family was...

Reverberations.
September 1, 2002... Climber's care I AM WRITING not only to defend my sport but also to present an adjacent perspective on the ecological impact of rock climbing. "Ecosystem on the edge" (Discovery, CG Jul/Aug 2002) left the picture incomplete. Human use...

A walk in the wild: a novel approach to learning about bears.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... RCGS presentation by Charlie Russell Join renowned naturalist/journalist Charlie Russell as he shares 40 years of studying grizzly, kermode and black bears. In pursuit of learning, he has travelled throughout British Columbia and Alberta as...

Putting on a good face. (First Nations).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... FOR SOME 68 years, North Vancouver's Capilano Suspension Bridge and Park has displayed seven cigar-store Indian statues carved by two Danes who'd never set eyes on a local First Nations person. Now the park is replacing them with carvings that...

Jet-clear skies. (Meteorology).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CLIMATE CHANGE wasn't top of mind in the days following the terrorist attacks of September 11. But the three-day grounding of commercial air traffic - and the resulting absence of the white streaks criss-crossing the sky behind let...

Dune stampede. (Conservation).(Prince Edward Island National Park and the Greenwich Peninsula)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 2002... IS A MULTI-MILLION-dollar resort a good neighbour for a national park that is already considered Canada's most-endangered? Environmentalists say a resort approved by the provincial government for Greenwich Peninsula may seriously degrade Prince...

Crowning moment. (Wildlife).(Spike the elephant at Calgary Zoo fitted with tusk caps)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ANIMAL DENTISTRY reached new heights in July when a three-metre-tall bull elephant at the Calgary Zoo was fitted with two new tusk caps. Spike, a 21-year-old pachyderm, received the 17-kilogram, 43-centimetre-long, stainless-steel crowns...

Back on track. (Education).(l'ecole de la Petite-Gare, La Prairie, Quebec)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... THIS SEPTEMBER, it's all aboard for students at l'ecole de la Petite-Gare in La Prairie, Que. Hearkening back to the 1920s when youngsters in rural northern Ontario took lessons in school cars which pulled into town every few weeks, kids at...

Bat hotels. (Remediation).(Homestake Canada Nickel Plate mine, Hedley, British Columbia)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... BARRY GIVEN is building a steel gate at the entrance to an old mine near Hedley, B.C., to keep people out--and allow bats in. After attending a mine-reclamation conference, Given, the site manager for the Homestake Canada Nickel Plate mine,...

Overloading lotus land. (Development).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... PEOPLE ARE DRAWN to British Columbia's Georgia Basin and Washington's neighbouring Puget Sound by the spectacular mountains and forests surrounding bays and inlets. But a recent report says this West Coast paradise may soon lose its Utopian...

Quotable.(The Halifax Gazette)(Brief Article)(Excerpt)
September 1, 2002... ROME, September 24--A few days ago, as the Pope was going in his Coach to the Quirinal, an ordinary man kneeled in the Street upon his Knees as if he wanted to receive a Blessing from him, which as he was going to give, the Man threw a Stone at...

Silver anniversary for species list. (Species at Risk).(Marco Festa-Bianchet)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... THE COMMITTEE on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) has been reporting for 25 years on the dire state of hundreds of species, from the island blue butterfly to the Atlantic blue whale. It was formed in 1977 by the federal...

Harvest moon rising. (Celestial Almanac).(quizz)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... THE FULL MOON you'll see on September 21 this year is the harvest moon. How much do you know about this autumnal harbinger? Let's find out. True or false: 1. The harvest moon is the largest and brightest full moon of the year. 2. It...

New home for T. rex. (Paleontology).(new research on Tyrannosaurus rex)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... THE LAST PAPER of a dying botanist is casting new light on the lost world of Tyrannosaurus rex. University of Saskatchewan researcher Elisabeth McIver died of cancer last year at 59, two weeks after ending work on a rare find of a T. rex...

Delta hues: Canada's longest river empties into a verdant alluvial plain teeming with wildlife and, increasingly, dotted with drillers. (A la Carte).(Mackenzie River)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ALL THE SEDIMENT-RICH RIVULETS, Creeks that feed the Mackenzie River, which drains fully one-fifth of the country's land mass, eventually flow into the big river's delta, a densely patterned alluvial plain of low-lying islands, channels, cutoff...

Changing courses: a veteran northern traveller paddles into the heart of the Northwest Territories, and discovers that old lifestyles are being reshaped by new economic realities.
September 1, 2002... A FEW HUNDRED PEOPLE canoe, kayak or raft the South Nahanni river in the southwestern corner of the Northwest Territories every year. They are, almost without exception, highly skilled paddlers with a great deal of outdoor experience. Those...

Hayloft hideaway.
September 1, 2002... Fewer than 10 percent of barn owls in Canada nest in the wild. Most, a new farmer discovers, live in the deep recesses of old barns, a habitat that is steadily disappearing. My wife Christine and I had sold our city house and bought a farm...

The Great Canadian Feast[TM].
September 1, 2002... The Great Canadian Feast[TM] cookbook lets you savour the ethnic, cultural and regional diversity of Canadian cuisine. Coming in September, the 160-page black-and-white book contains more than 60 family favourites chosen from some 1,000 entries...

Into the hotzone.
September 1, 2002... IN THE WAKE OF SEPTEMBER 11, SCIENTISTS AT CANADA'S NEWEST AND MOST SECURE BIOSAFETY LAB WERE INUNDATED WITH SUSPECTED ANTHRAX CASES. NOW, THEY'RE PRIMED FOR THE WORST. AT THE HEIGHT OF LAST FALL'S anthrax scare, scientists at Canada's new...

Poetic poses: from hunting parties to tea socials, small-town photographer Carl Linde told the story of Kenora in his carefully composed images.
September 1, 2002... CARL GUSTAVE LINDE was a veteran of two wars yet only in his early twenties when he and his bride Margaret arrived in 1905 in a northern Ontario community that had long been known as Rat Portage. The small town on Lake of the Woods, near the...

Communing with the lords of the animal kingdom. (Reviews: Wildlife).(Conversations with and Eagle: The Story of a Remarkable Relationship, Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... CONVERSATIONS WITH AN EAGLE The Story of a Remarkable Relationship By Brenda Cox Greystone Books 261 pp., $22.95 softover LISTENING TO WHALES What the Orcas Have Taught Us By Alexandra Morton Ballantine...

The Old Man's daunting spirit. (Reviews: Conservation).(Old Man on his Back: Portrait of a Prairie Landscape)(Sharon Butala)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... OLD MAN ON HIS BACK Portrait of a Prairie Landscape By Sharon Butala; photography by Courtney Milne HarperCollins and the Nature Conservancy of Canada 80 pp., $39.95 hardcover TO THE UNTRAINED EYE, the near-pristine...

A poet divided. (Reviews: History).(Flint and Feather: The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake)(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... FLINT AND FEATHER The Life and Times of E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake By Charlotte Gray HarperFlamingo Canada 448 pp., $37.95 hardcover MOHAWK POET E. Pauline Johnson lived a life of paradox, straddling two cultures and...

National Audubon Society Guide to Marine Mammals of the World. (Reviews: Briefly Noted).
September 1, 2002... Illustrated by Pieter Folkens Alfred A. Knopf, 528 pp., $39.95 softcover THIS COMPREHENSIVE volume on whales, seals, otters, polar bears and sirenians (a group of large aquatic mammals that includes the manatee) is as handsome as are...

Landscapes of the Heart. (Reviews: Briefly Noted).
September 1, 2002... Narratives of Nature and Self Edited by Michael Aleksiuk and Thomas Nelson NeWest Press, 237 pp., $24.95 softcover THIS WIDE-RANGING assortment of essays explores the intensely personal relationships we have--or have had and sorely...

Thunder on the Tundra. (Reviews: Briefly Noted).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Caribou By Natasha Thorpe, Naikak Hakongak, Sandra Eyegetok and the Kitikmeot Elders Tuktu and Nogak Project, 208 pp., $39.25 softcover EXPLORING the intertwined lives of the caribou and...

Stormy weather. (On the Horizon).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... HUNDREDS of mariners have met death over the past two centuries in the enormous storms that slam into the British Columbia coast every year from October to April. Canadians have developed complex weather-forecasting and search-and-rescue...

Fruits of labour. (Mosaic).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... AFTER A 10-HOUR DAY of picking blueberries at the Khun Khun farm in Pitt Meadows, B.C., Puran Gill (ABOVE) heads home, his rain gear balanced on his head. Joginder Padda (TOP RIGHT) queries his morning's earnings with Kharak Garewal, the farm...

Hillbilly heaven on Yellowknife Bay. (In Habitat).(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... GREAT SLAVE LAKE isn't quite warm enough in early summer to dive into for houseboat anchors, but sometimes, that's what life requires of us "aquabillies" who live on Yellowknife Bay. Fortunately, my duties in the operation didn't oblige me to...

The Northwest Territories.(Brief Article)
September 1, 2002... ISLANDS THAT ARE EMBEDDED in the polar ice of the Arctic Ocean, treeless tundra Barren Lands, raging rivers that spill out of the Mackenzie Mountains -- the Northwest Territories occupies 1.17 million square kilometres of Canada's most diverse...