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079 season of the crocus, earlier blooming is stressing bird populations and early berries for bears may not be a good thing`photo of a Prairie Crocus (Anemone patens)

079 season of the crocus, earlier blooming is stressing bird populations and early berries for bears may not be a good thing`

Published April 25, 2019 by Ward Cameron

This week, I start with a closer look at one of the true harbingers of spring, the prairie crocus. It’s more than just a pretty…

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078 Game of Thrones connections in western Canada and Examining a new Fire Management Plan for Banff, Yoho, and Kootenay National Parks

078 Game of Thrones connections in western Canada and Examining a new Fire Management Plan for Banff, Yoho, and Kootenay National Parks

Published April 21, 2019 by Ward Cameron

In this episode, I look at the Canadian connections between the T.V. series Game of Thrones and western Canada. Think thrones, direwolves, and dragons! I…

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076 New report shows Canada warming up twice as fast as most of the world, a look a the biggest, the cuddliest, and the most frightening T. Rex’s, and the day the world ended for the dinosaurs.Canmore's Cougar Creek flood in 2013

076 New report shows Canada warming up twice as fast as most of the world, a look a the biggest, the cuddliest, and the most frightening T. Rex’s, and the day the world ended for the dinosaurs.

Published April 4, 2019 by Ward Cameron

This week I examine a new climate report show that Canada is heating up at twice the global rate and that the Canadian north is…

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075 Grizzly bears emerge from their winter dens, and Montana’s Glacier National Park is losing its glaciersimage of Grizzly 94 and 104

075 Grizzly bears emerge from their winter dens, and Montana’s Glacier National Park is losing its glaciers

Published April 2, 2019 by Ward Cameron

This week I look into the life of Grizzly 122, better known as the Boss, as he emerges from his winter den and marks the…

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074 Keeping Alberta Rat Free, and how adding one non-native fish to Yellowstone caused a food web to collapsePhoto of a juvenile bald eagle being mobbed by ravens.

074 Keeping Alberta Rat Free, and how adding one non-native fish to Yellowstone caused a food web to collapse

Published March 21, 2019 by Ward Cameron

This week I take a look at a little known Alberta claim to fame. It’s the only place on Earth, outside of the Arctic and…

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072 Saying goodbye to the father of Global warming, Canmore’s Nuclear Bunker, New Train Service to the Mountains, and watching for the bears to emergephoto of Ward Cameron explores the cold war bunker located on the slopes of Mount McGillivray near Canmore, Alberta.

072 Saying goodbye to the father of Global warming, Canmore’s Nuclear Bunker, New Train Service to the Mountains, and watching for the bears to emerge

Published March 6, 2019 by Ward Cameron

This week we say goodbye to Wallace Smith Broeker, the groundbreaking climatologist that coined the term “global warming’. I also look at a cold war…

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070 Polar bears and climate change denial, Alberta’s mountains see the highest temperature increases and did European contact in the New World cause the Little Ice Age

070 Polar bears and climate change denial, Alberta’s mountains see the highest temperature increases and did European contact in the New World cause the Little Ice Age

Published February 18, 2019 by Ward Cameron

Polar Bears and climate change In this episode, I look at polar bear ecology and how they have become a pivotal tool in the work…

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