This is the time of year when competition is on everyone’s mind. The NHL and NBA playoffs have just ended, the 2024 Euros are underway and the Paris Olympics are just around the corner. Everywhere you look, people are straining and sweating to reach the podium or lift the cup (sadly, my Toronto Rapt...

Jasper National Park wildlife officials have increased the urgency of their bear management strategy after a family of grizzlies swam into another popular Maligne Lake campground last weekend. On June 16, nine days after sniffing around Coronet Creek campsite on the south end of Maligne Lake, three ...

Canoe-accessed facilities on Maligne Lake are open again after a camper’s close encounter with a grizzly bear family precipitated two campground evacuations and subsequent closures. Last Friday, June 7, a camper at Coronet Creek campsite , a backcountry tent site on the south end of Jasper National ...

Jasper National Park has implemented area closures to give grizzly bears, black bears and calving elk room to roam. Grizzly bears are in the Jasper valley bottoms. Area closures along Trail 7 are in place to give them room. // Simone Heinrich Trail 7 along the south and east borders of the Jasper Pa...

Brian and I glanced at each other nervously, then raised our binoculars back to our eyes and continued scanning the horizon. Nothing. We had been dropped off in the middle of a vast black spruce bog in Wood Buffalo National Park. We were to have lunch while our helicopter pilot flew back to the fuel...

Parks Canada and Alberta Fish and Wildlife are reminding industry partners about the hazards of intervening in life-and-death situations involving wildlife. On March 11, Alberta Fish and Wildlife’s Hinton office received an atypical call from CN dispatchers after a bighorn sheep was injured on the r...

Dear Editor, Jasper National Park management has closed large parts of formerly prime backcountry ski terrain as part of a larger program to protect and restore caribou populations that have sharply declined over the past century. JNP offers the hypothesis that ski tracks facilitate wolf movements a...

Parks Canada reminding the public about staying safe in bear country The first bear sighting in Jasper National Park this spring has been reported. The black bear was spotted foraging for food in the Lac Beauvert area on the evening of April 2, and more black bears and grizzly bears are expected to ...

In part one of his series on caribou , biologist and wildlife photographer Mark Bradley discussed barren-ground caribou. Part two will focus on woodland caribou, the same ones found in Jasper National Park. Wolves, Elk and Caribou in Jasper National Park The area that is now Jasper National Park has...

“Mai, tuktumia’tuit!” That means “Wow, look at all those caribou!” (I think… my Inuktitut has not improved after 30 years of inactivity). It was a cold but sunny morning in late winter, somewhere along the treeline about 100 km west of Arviat, Nunavut. Peter, Joe and I were travelling by snowmobile ...