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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Parks Canada has issued a pair of bear warnings for parts of Banff National Park after bears were spotted near a busy road and resort. On Thursday, a warning was issued for Saskatchewan Crossing Resort and its surrounding area due to a …
Read More »‘Rotten rock’: Climate change altering the face of Canadian mountaineering
The Abbot Pass hut stood for decades in a rugged saddle between two iconic peaks, overlooking the limpid turquoise of Banff National Park’s Lake Louise — a destination for alpinists from around the world until the ground melted beneath it and forced its closure. University of Calgary researchers have now used a century’s …
Read More »‘Loved to death’: Balancing recreation and conservation in Alberta’s mountain parks
The number of annual visitors to Alberta’s parks has been steadily rising, sparking a question of how to balance the desire for recreation with environmental concerns. “Places like Banff National Park and Waterton are being loved to death,” said Jody Hilty, president of Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative. The number …
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