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Elements Outfitters Partners with SALTS to Protect Alberta’s Incredible Landscapes

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Built upon a shared desire to enjoy, respect, and advocate for Alberta’s incredible landscapes, it was a natural fit for Elements Outfitters to work with a local conservation organization to highlight the province’s rugged beauty and outdoor apparel to match.

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Mountain Lifer

A Forest Journey: The Role of Trees in the Fate of Civilization

Trees have been the principal fuel and building material of every society over the millennia, from the time hunters and gatherers first settled until the middle of the nineteenth century. Without vast supplies of wood from forests, the great civilizations of the world would have never emerged.

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The Drip Zone Effect

The microscopic harbingers of Canada’s forgotten inland rainforest.

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Connecting the River to the Mountains

Éco-corridors laurentiens, a non-profit nature-conservation organization working to create a network of protected areas between Oka and Mont-Tremblant...

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The Great Outdoors

Good News for a Change: The Conservation Alliance Expands Membership

When governments fumble, The Conservation Alliance picks up the ball. Words :: Ned Morgan. Wilderness for the Public Good We’re in need of some good news this year.…

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Darkwoods Conservation Area: Why We Need It More Than Ever

An update on B.C.’s Darkwoods, Canada’s largest privately-owned wilderness tract. words :: Ned Morgan // photo :: David Moskowitz. As the global population expands, humans need nature as a respite…

Features

Yellowstone to Yukon: A New Model of Mountain Conservation

Words :: Ned Morgan. As human populations continue to grow, urban development fans in haphazard fashion ever outward from city and town centres, heedless of the habitat swallowed up and…

On the Frontlines: Indigenous Women Protecting Sacred Places

Widely known as the Broughton Archipelago, the traditional territory of the Musgamagw Dzawada’enuxw, ‘Namgis, and Mamalilikala First Nations is a pristine stretch of ocean and islands off the northeastern coast…

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The Great Outdoors

Biophiliac: Road Warriors

At less than 20 years old, road ecology is an emerging scientific discipline—albeit one that should have been birthed earlier. After all, we’ve been messing up wildlife with roads for…

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The Great Outdoors

Storytelling and High-Tech Art To Transform Vancouver Bridge For Salmon Conservation

A new cinematic experience is coming to Vancouver this June, juxtaposing the city’s urban landscape with the wonders of the great Pacific salmon migration. The brainchild of acclaimed Vancouver director…

Something Fishy: Open Net Fish Farms are Destroying BC’s Wild Salmon Populations

In our Summer 2010 issue we ran a story about foreign-owned, open net fish farms in BC waters and the harmful effects they have on wild salmon populations. Back then,…

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The Great Outdoors

Embrace the Darkness: Torrance Barrens Dark-Sky Preserve

It’s pitch black. You can’t see your hand in front of your face or your feet beneath you. But when you look up you can see millions of stars, planets…

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Photographers Without Borders: Helping Not-for-Profits Forge their Visual Identities Around the Globe

“A lot of the not-for-profits I was working for were doing life-saving, amazing work, but they couldn’t justify spending money on video and photos,” says Da Silva. “I did one…

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The Great Outdoors

How To: Be a Regular Joe and Photograph Animals in the Wild

The first camera was an eye, the first film memory, and their first subjects the living natural world. Since that time we’ve been trying, one way or another, to record…

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River Wide : An Uncertain Future for Salmon & the Skeena River

River Wide is a fly fishing film about the Skeena River and a current environmental issue that threatens the entire west coast salmon population; the Petronas (LNG) liquid natural gas…

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People of a Feather: Mapping a Remote Community to Help Save the Arctic Eider

The Arctic Eider isn’t just any duck. The feather of this sea-ice dweller is the warmest in the world—a marvel of nature that allows the Eider duck to spend its…

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Escaping Extinction: Calls for More Protection for BC’s Vulnerable Grizzlies

The “bear” necessities of life have not come easy for North America’s grizzly bears. The last known California grizzly, an iconic animal that used to roam free, from BC all…

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Paddle For The North: A Journey to Shed Light on Wild Spaces

Six buds, three canoes, two dogs, one paddler with zero experience, and a 63-day, 1,500 km journey through some of the most pristine waters in the world. If there is…

Requiem For a Future North

For several years I have made regular trips to Canada’s north, spending months at a time above the 60th parallel—the invisible border where the land changes from boreal forest to…

The Far Side: Climbing an Unknown Mountain in the Name of Biodiversity

Words :: Ned Morgan. Mount Namuli is unlikely to be notched on any mountaineer’s bedpost. As mountains go, it isn’t very high. The 2,419-metre granite monolith in northern Mozambique can’t…

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