Two Biologists and a Boy: When an Animal Loses Her Young

For Highline Online, June 18, 2012.   I haven’t really seen my husband Geoff for about three days. With the snow low on the mountains animals are forced into the valley bottoms, where they’re running into people all over the place. These “interactions” are keeping Geoff – wildlife conflict specialist with Parks Canada - pretty busy. During a ten minute cross-over at breakfast this morning he told me that he was in fact with “another... Read More

Two Biologists and a Boy: Running the Elk

HIGHLINE ONLINE, NOVEMBER 22, 2011   Dylan and his cousin, Drew, watch from the front step as Geoff grabs the “elk stick”  - a hockey stick with multi-coloured plastic strips taped to the blade – and confidently moves toward the bull elk. A member of Parks Canada’s wildlife conflict team, Geoff has a lot of experience with this sort of thing. It’s the fall rut, and he has been moving testosterone-filled bulls away from the townsite... Read More