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Western Water & Forests: Spring 2016 Outlook

March 26, 2016

Last month, Dezene Huber, a professor at the University of Northern British Columbia, tweeted this photo of BC’s mighty Fraser River in Prince George. Doesn’t … Read more

Tags drought, forests, hydrology, insect infestation, pine beetle, snowpack, spruce beetle, water, weather, western canada

Becoming a Western writer

August 5, 2015

When I first read Wallace Stegner’s Wolf Willow, it stuck. Not just for days, but even years later I can recall the story in the … Read more

Tags books, Dave Gessner, drought, Ed Abbey, reading, resources, Wallace Stegner, water, west, western canada, wilderness, writers, writing

Dry times in the Canadian West

July 1, 2015

*UPDATED 5 JULY – NEW BC, AB, AND SK WILDFIRE & DROUGHT SITUATION* I’m closing the windows again to keep the cool in and the … Read more

Tags Alberta, british columbia, drought, fish, hydrology, hydropower, northwest territories, pacific northwest, saskatchewan, streamflow, water, water security, water supply, western canada, yukon

S is for Snow

April 24, 2012

Of course I would pick snow as the ‘s’ word. Snow has been part of my vocabulary since I learned to talk. Growing up in … Read more

Tags landscapes, physical geography, science terminology, snow, western canada, winter

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