Latest Canmore Podcast Episodes
059 Local photographers, natural orchestras, Whirling disease, bear updates, and natural economics
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - April 26, 2018 21:48 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLocal Photographers If you're a regular listener, you'll already know that I am both a photographer and author. It was through both of these rolls that I'm feeling very sad today to hear of the passing of Doug Leighton. Doug was a visionary photographer who introduced countless numbers of pe...
058 Time to clean up the bird feeders, bobcats be coming, and the bears are back.
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - April 13, 2018 19:52 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsTime to take down your bird feeders Now that spring is, well, technically upon us. It's time to take down your bird feeders. Communities like Banff and Jasper, located within the national parks, already ban bird feeders. While Canmore is outside of the mountain parks, it has a bylaw that forbids...
057 New Burgess fossils, and red fox return to the Rockies, episode 57 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast 057 New Burgess fossils, and red fox return to the Rockies, episode 57 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast 057 New Burgess fossils, an
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - April 02, 2018 05:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWelcome to episode 57 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast, I'm your host, Ward Cameron and I'm recording this on April 1, 2018. This week I look at three amazing fossils that are teaching palaeontologists about the evolution of some of the world's oldest creatures. I also look at the retu...
056 New Super Berry, what's in a name, and ecological trap
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - March 21, 2018 05:17 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsSo, what would you be willing to endure to make it home for Christmas In these modern times? These days trips home usually involve expensive plane fares or long drives on winter roads made safer by winter tires, interior heaters, and modern clothing. What if you were faced with a 112 km snowshoe...
055 Advice from Edward Abbey, bison updates, and woodpecker headaches
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - March 09, 2018 06:27 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsEdward Abbey Quote I stumbled upon a quotation recently from the great ecological activist Edward Abbey. It was shared on Facebook by Kevin Van Tighem, a former Banff National Park Superintendent. He was talking about how tiring it can be to be a public advocate for nature and ecology. Abbey was...
054 Frozen feet at Christmas, new wolf pack forming, 10 New Year Resolutions, and what determines success in Grizzly translocations
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - January 15, 2018 01:18 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsHome for Christmas - Tom Wilson has a close call So, what would you be willing to endure to make it home for Christmas In these modern times? These days trips home usually involve expensive plane fares or long drives on winter roads made safer by winter tires, interior heaters, and modern clot...
053 David Thompson heads west, and do mountain pine beetles increase the risk of forest fires?
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - December 21, 2017 06:02 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDavid Thompson heads west Last week, I ended the story of David Thompson with his leaving the employment of the Hudson's Bay Company, and joining the rival Northwest Company. As Thompson began his journey to the west, he described the landscape of the great plains: "The climate is good, the wint...
052 David Thompson quits the Hudson's Bay Company, and what's up with climate science deniers?
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - December 07, 2017 21:49 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsDavid Thompson Part 2 Last week I talked about David Thompson's arrival in Canada and some of his adventures during the earliest part of his long career in Canada. They were just the start of a 40+ year adventure across the wilderness of this nation and the northern United States. This week,...
051 Melting Glaciers, and David Thompson's Legacy Begins
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - December 01, 2017 07:36 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMelting Mountain Glaciers For many years it has been believed that Canada's western mountain glaciers, also known as the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, melted some 12.5 thousand years ago. A new study published in the Journal Nature by researcher Brian Menounos and his team is shedding new light on just...
050 New frontiers for wildlife crossings, and the scourge of scurvy
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - November 26, 2017 00:15 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWelcome to Episode 50 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast. I'm your host, Ward Cameron and I'm recording this on November 25, 2017. I can't believe this is actually episode 50. When I started this project almost a year and a half ago, I'm not sure I believed I would actually ever get 50 s...
049 A look at polar bear ecology, cougars that aren't solitary and does shooting problem bears work
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - November 16, 2017 05:40 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIn this episode I look at some of the reasons so many people flock to Churchill every year to see polar bears. I also look at a new research study that has shown that cougars are not nearly as solitary as biologists once believed. Finally, I examine a stu
048 Pikas struggling with warming climates, Neanderthal medicine, and mining gravel river beds
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - October 20, 2017 05:58 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsPika in a time of Climate Change The Rocky Mountains are known around the world as a great place to spot wildlife. Although most visitors to the area are looking for iconic animals like elk, bighorn sheep and bears, some of our tinier residents can be equally exciting. One of the more fascinati...
047 Canada's 150th birthday and its effects on visitation to the Mountain Parks an Ode to Bear 148, and interviews with several candidates.
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - October 13, 2017 01:23 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCanada 150 Visitation Unless you've been living under a rock this past year, you know that 2017 represents the 150th birthday of Canada. As a nation, we were born just 150 years ago on July 1, 1867. Now this wasn't the Canada we know today, but a teeny tiny Canada with a lot of well, wilderness....
046 Bears and Trains and the Cariboo Goldrush becomes a Bonanza
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - October 06, 2017 23:28 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLook Out Bears, There's a Train Coming In episode 34 I talked about the incredible success that Banff National Park has had in terms of reducing the number of animals, such as grizzly bears, that are being killed along our highways. The system of over and underpasses that have been pioneered h...
045 Wolves help grizzlies by killing elk, the Trans Canada Trail is complete, the Jasper to Columbia Icefields trail falls into limbo and gold rushes in British Columbia
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - September 29, 2017 01:45 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWolves are a grizzlies best friend - at least in Yellowstone Yellowstone has become a world renowned laboratory for what can happen when long absent carnivores are returned to the landscape. For decades across North America, predators were seen as the enemy, and targeted for extermination. B...
044 Flying giraffes and loving the mountains to death
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - September 15, 2017 04:52 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsFlying Dinosaurs as Tall as Giraffes If you're a regular listener of this podcast, then you know that I love dinosaurs. Living in Alberta is the perfect mix because we have one of the best landscapes for finding dino remains and there are new discoveries happening all the time. The Royal Tyrel...
043 Save a caribou, kill a moose, the burgess shales and fire updates on the mountain west
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - September 06, 2017 06:01 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsCan Killing Moose help Caribou? A recent study conducted by researchers in British Columbia's Columbia Mountain range is raising eyebrows for its novel approach to trying to help struggling caribou populations in several endangered herds throughout several areas. Over the past few years, pro...
042 Grizzlies choose berries over salmon, and the Canadian Last Spike
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - August 31, 2017 22:25 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis week I look at an amazing report from Alaska that shows that given the choice, salmon may not be a grizzlies first choice for dinner. I also bring to a close, the story of the building of Canada's transcontinental railway..and with that said, let's get to it. Grizzlies Choose Berries over S...
041 Flying Squirrels, Forest Fire Records and Van Horne Rescues the CPR
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - August 23, 2017 14:20 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis week I take a look at one of our most secretive animals, the northern flying squirrel. It also looks like B.C. has broken a record this summer for the worst fire season on record. Finally, I'll share the story of the Greatest Canadian Railroader, that wasn't well Canadian, William Cornelius...
040 Pine beetles bring fire fears and Major A.B. Rogers surveys through the western Mountains, episode 040 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - August 16, 2017 14:22 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsWelcome to episode 40 of the Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast. I'm your host, Ward Cameron, and I record this on August 16, 2017, we've finally received a bit of rain in the Canadian Rockies. Every drop is a gift at this point and hopefully it will reduce our explosive fire hazard and let us ...
039 The bear bites back and Hells Bells Rogers
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - August 10, 2017 05:23 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThe Bears Bite Back I hate it when the inevitable happens! We've been talking for weeks about people entering closed areas during the most critical time of the year for black and grizzly bears to put on fat for the winter months. I've witnessed numerous people violating the closures and have cal...
038 Farewell to Grizzly 148, Walter Moberly's Surveys, Solar Eclipses and Bird-eating Deer
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - August 03, 2017 03:24 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsOde to Grizzly 148 This has been a heartbreaking week as bear 148, the beloved daughter of Banff's most famous bear 66, was translocated far away from her home territory of Banff and Canmore all the way north to Kakwa Provincial Park, located to the west of Grand Cache. It was a difficult decisi...
037 Buffaloberry Primer, ancient archaeological site, a national dream begins, golden eagle migrations, and B.C. decides to privatize wildlife management
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - July 29, 2017 00:28 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsAncient archaeological Site found on the Coast For as long as I can remember, archaeologists have been talking about the ice free corridor that ran from Alaska, across the Bering Strait to Russia and all the way past Calgary. We were told that this was the route that the ancestors of all the fir...
036 Expanding Forest Fires, Bear 148 Gets One More Chance and No National Bird for Canada
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - July 19, 2017 07:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsForest Fires Spreading across British Columbia and now threaten parts of Alberta When I wrote last week's fire focused episode, little did I know that my own community of Canmore would be smelly and smoky this week as fires continue to spread and the number of evacuees in British Columbia climbs...
035 Flames across the border
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - July 12, 2017 13:32 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsForest Fires in B.C. Recent forest fires in British Columbia have once again raised the horror of forest fires to the top of the news feeds. The hot dry weather that has been a constant companion for the past few weeks has allowed the number of fires to escalate in the interior of British Columb...
034 Bear Spray containers, Wildlife overpasses, Bear 148 in trouble, new bear research methods and Waterton Park's namesake
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - July 09, 2017 06:27 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsLast week I spoke with Lyndsay Kearns about a canister of bear spray that exploded in her car. It was a horrible situation and the damage to her car was significant. If you'd like to hear her interview, check out www.mountainnaturepodcast.com/ep033. During the podcast I mentioned bear spray safe...
033 Bulletproof elk, exploding bear spray and drones in the high country
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - June 29, 2017 00:31 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Bulletproof Elk A recent study published in the journal PLOS One has brought some amazing insights into the behaviour of female elk in the Rocky Mountains. The study took place in southwestern Alberta and southeastern British Columbia. It looked at the behaviour of female elk when conf...
032 Microburst Mayhem and Climate Science in Mountain Landscapes
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - June 22, 2017 03:19 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsMicroburst Mayhem On the evening of June 8, I was getting ready to head out to the climate change presentation that I'll play during the second portion of this episode, and wouldn't you know it, minutes before I left the house, an extremely severe storm hit Canmore. It postponed the presentati...
031 Changing western climates and the importance of science in the post-truth Trumpocene
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - June 15, 2017 01:06 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - What will 2050 be like in western Canada Recently the CBC website posted an article by Tara Carman about the potential changes that will take place in British Columbia in the next 30 years with just a 2.5C increase in temperature. The story paints a troubling picture for Canada's weste...
030 Grizzlies Meet Bison and new Dino Discoveries
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - June 09, 2017 22:03 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Grizzlies Meet Bison This is one of the most amazing stories to hit the parks in decades, and the first large-scale reintroduction of a large hoofed animal in this area. In February of 2017, 10 pregnant females and 6 young bulls were reintroduced to a remote area of Banff National Park...
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