Day one of a solo backpacking weekend in Yoho. Every year I do a solo back packing trip into the back country of our Rocky Mountain Natio...

Phew! It’s been an interesting few weeks and I have learned that one thing a PhD needs is flexibility while at the same time being scient...

This past week, my home town, Canmore, flooded. It flooded like it has never flooded before and it was one of the most tragic things I ha...

At C-Level Cirque – big smiles and a love of wilderness makes the world go ’round. This week, I started breaking in the new boots and wen...

An example of a high human use trail that I could be sampling – Larch Valley Ok… It’s not all fun and games, but hopefully that title cau...

Can’t see the bear for the grass – GPS can help that The past few weeks I’ve been putting my energies in to learning ArcGIS, a computer p...

Photo provided by John Marriott (For more amazing images, check out John’s website is: http://www.wildernessprints.com/) As the snow begi...

In my old job, part of what I did was take science and translate it into language that got people motivated to demand change. This is a p...

The larch valley in Banff is a great example of how hikers can impact an area, but it’s also an example of how access to wilderness is im...

Visitors are an integral part of the Rocky Mountain National Parks and ensuring a positive visitor experience is a large part of Parks Ca...

Even watching a bear from this distance can change its behaviour. From a scientific perspective, studying grizzly bear behaviour isn’t ea...

As I was preparing to leave Canada, most of my friends and family watched on with incredulity – So you’re going to study grizzly bears in...

To acknowledge the businesses who contributed to the raffle and silent auction, I dressed up in a bear costume and ran around town taking...

Bears have been restricted to mostly mountainous environments, but their shoulder hump actually evolved from a life on the prairies. A pr...

After my hike in to Skoki, I pitched my project idea to my future supervisor and asked if he’d be interested. I think choosing the right ...

As I neared Ptarmigan Lake, a Park warden on horseback passed me and warned me of a female grizzly with two cubs near the halfway hut. I ...