Parks Canada Columbia Icefields Wildlife Panels
A great idea for the Icefield Centre parking lot at the Columbia Icefields. Parks Canada hired me to research and write three interpretive panels on eagles, mountain goat and grizzly bear. Project Graphic Designer: Marni Wilson, Non-personal Media Specialist, Parks Canada.
Parks Canada Columbia Icefields Mountaineering Panels
Another fun project for Parks Canada. I researched and wrote six interpretive panels featuring mountaineers legendary in the Rocky Mountains. I interviewed subjects where possible, and coordinated mountaineer visuals for the project. Project Graphic Designer: Marni Wilson, Non-personal Media Specialist, Parks Canada.
Two Biologists and a Boy: I Love the Latex Gloves
From Highline Online Nov 19, 2012 Geoff often unpacks his work backpack on the floor by his side of the bed. I don’t go over there unless I’m vacuuming, because what may look like random piles of textbooks, digital cameras, charger cords and, at times, large-gauge syringes is actually a secret system Geoff uses for keeping track of things he needs for the next few work days. If you didn’t know what he did for a living, this may be alarming. Take for example the pile I found this morning. On top of a carefully balled up uniform is a scattering of important looking papers, overlaid by OJ-Simpson-like gloves. Of course, leather gloves are not…
Connecting Youth to Nature at the Palisades Centre
This article appeared in the Wildlands Advocate last year. It is now available in digital format here.
Two Biologists and a Boy: Under Alar’s Spell
Highline Magazine, October 16 2012 Dylan lays in front of a lichen-speckled grey rock, his head resting on an old canvas army bag. Spread around him are the contents of the bag: an old tin, a tattered black and white picture of Mount Columbia, a bone-covered jackknife, and a very old black and brass telescope. Behind him, Parkers Ridge is lit by thousands of fuzzy white dryas flowers going to seed. They glow against the red, orange and green of the autumn alpine. The Saskatchewan Glacier shines in the distance, and Dylan dreams of mountains. This is one of the many beautiful scenes filmed by director Alar Kivilo. Dylan was, quite literally, cast under his…
