Jenn Isbister:
Best talk I’ve ever attended. Anywhere! On anything! By anyone!! What an amazing man.
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Archive for the ‘Fauna’ Category
Nat Geo photo adventurer Mattias Klum
Friday, April 27th, 2012
lynx crossing highway
Monday, April 23rd, 2012This unique image, captured by motion-sensitive cameras, offers an extraordinary glimpse of an animal that many Canadians have never seen. A Canada lynx uses the Redearth Creek wildlife overpass to cross the Trans-Canada Highway in Banff National Park at 8:34 a.m. on March 28, 2012. Since 1996, over 200,000 animals, including grizzlies, wolves and cougars, have safely crossed the highway using wildlife overpasses and underpasses.
The overpass is one of six that are part of the wildlife-crossing project in Banff National Park.
Combined with 38 underpasses along the stretch of Trans-Canada Highway that cuts through this wildlife-rich area, the intent of the crossings is to keep the number of animal deaths on the highway to an absolute minimum …
Calgary Herald – Rare photo of lynx using Banff highway overpass delights wildlife experts
Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail, Glacier Park
Monday, January 30th, 2012Colleen Contrisciane-Lewis, of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania won an all-expenses-paid grand prize from Backpacker magazine: an assignment to hike—and report on—her dream trip.
Read about her 85-mile, weeklong transect of Glacier National Park on the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail:
Naturally, Rowan and I want quality time alone–we eloped just weeks before our hike, and this Continental Divide-crossing route will not only be my Reader Leader dream trip, but also our honeymoon. …
… When I backpack solo, I can do breakfast and pack in 30 minutes. With Rowan, it takes two hours, and my frustration is building to a boil. …
… “Would you mind silencing your bear bell?” Rowan asks. “The incessant jingle is grating. And I’d love to see a bear.”
Who am I to argue with a man who’s lived with lions? So, against my better judgment, I silence my bell, and zip my lips. We hike 30 minutes before seeing a grizzly 20 yards off the trail …
read her trip report – GLACIER MAGIC
Bowman Lake in Glacier National Park (Jeremie Hollman)
That’s one unforgettable honeymoon!
Backpacker posted 7 more reader submitted trip reports:
Shoal Creek Loop, Gros Ventre Wilderness, WY
International Appalachian Trail, Parc National de la Gaspesie, Quebec
Creekside Loop, Pisgah NF, NC
Evolution Loop, Sequoia and Kings Canyon NP, CA
Skyline-to-the-Sea Trail, Castle Rock SP, CA
Grasshopper Glacier, Absaroka Beartooth Wilderness, MT
Appalachian Trail, 100-Mile Wilderness, ME
shooting a Grizzly only makes it angry
Monday, January 2nd, 2012At a New Years Eve party I happened to meet the man first on scene at this tragedy.
It turns out that the hunter in Idaho who the authorities thought was killed by a wounded grizzly bear was actually shot by his young hunting companion, who was trying to kill the bear, an autopsy has revealed.
Steve Stevenson, 39, died on Sept. 16 when he was shot in the chest once by his 20-year-old hunting companion, Ty Bell, officials said. The two men, both from Winnemucca, Nev., were tracking a grizzly bear they had wounded in rugged country on the Idaho-Montana border, thinking it was a black bear, the surviving hunter said. …
details on NY Times – In Bear Attack, Hunter Killed Hunter, Autopsy Shows
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