Latest Kootenay Podcast Episodes
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...
029 Stampede foods, draining lakes, lost historic sites and summer crowds
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - May 28, 2017 07:23 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - New Stampede Foods Every year, the Calgary Stampede introduces new menu items for the midway…and this year is no different. As usual, some are tasty, and others nasty. Last week they announced 40 new foods to their usual fare of corn dogs, French fries and pizza. Wait…did someone say p...
028 Franklin Artifacts, Bear 148's Wanderings and B.C.'s Interior Rainforest
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - May 20, 2017 21:49 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Banff Officials Launch New Campaign This summer, Parks Canada is launching a new public education campaign to try to educate visitors about the dangers of feeding animals in the park. Large images of a wolf with a plastic bottle in its mouth with the caption 'human food kills wildlif...
027 Bison babies, conservation wins and new transportation options for the mountains
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - May 06, 2017 05:46 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - First Bison Born in Banff Well, today, I'm able to share several good news stories that makes all the work worth it. While we are constantly being bombarded with bad news, it's always exciting when the hard work of thousands of people has a tangible impact on decisions taking place in ...
026 Parks Canada Takes its Lumps
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - April 24, 2017 04:58 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsIf you're a follower of this podcast, you'll know I'm a great champion of the job that Parks Canada staff undergo on a daily basis. Every day, they're on the front lines trying to keep our wildlife both wild and safe, keeping resources protected and plucking injured wilderness wanderers off of m...
025 Icefields Chalet upgrades, Mount Edith Cavell permits and going Batty
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - April 19, 2017 06:10 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis week we're looking at some important changes to the tourism infrastructure in Jasper National Park as well as some insights into the life of bats in the mountain west http://traffic.libsyn.com/mountainnature/Ep025_Mountain_Nature_and_Culture_Podcast.mp3 Story 1 - The Tourism Files As th...
024 Bow Valley Wildlife Corridors vs Developers
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - April 11, 2017 19:35 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis episode takes an in-depth look at the developments currently threatening to close off the last wildlife corridors moving through the Bow River Valley at Canmore. These developments include the Three Sisters and Smith Creek Developments, as well as the proposed development and gondola at Sil...
023 Wolves and Ravens, The Boss Awakens, Icefields Bike Trail, and Winter Olympics 2026
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - March 29, 2017 04:33 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Why do wolves hunt in packs? Have you ever wondered why wolves hunt in packs? After all, a single wolf is capable of taking down a 300 kg (1000 lb) moose all on its own. Theoretically, if a wolf hunted alone or in a group of one or two, they would just get more of the meat to themsel...
022 Grizzly Reintroduction to the North Cascades, North America's earliest bison, the Rocky Mountain Pledge and people using wildlife corridors
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - March 20, 2017 01:56 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsThis week we'll look at efforts to reintroduce grizzly bears to the north Cascades of Washington State. The plan may include some Canadian bears to help repopulate an area that has excellent habitat for bears. We'll also look way back into the earliest history of bison on the North American land...
021 Bison Homecoming
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - March 08, 2017 06:26 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsI was really pleased to record the presentations at the Buffalo Homecoming celebrations held on March 2, 2017 at the Cave and Basin National Historic Site. The Eleanor Luxton Foundation and Bison Belong co-sponsored the event which was a gala evening with first nations blessings, dancing and dru...
020 Castle Park Announcement, Whirling Disease Updates, Shocking Grizzly Stories and Frigid Pine Beetles
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - February 23, 2017 05:09 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Castle Parks are Expanding Whenever we hear about new parks being established, it's great news - and this January, we got a double whammy as the Alberta Government finalized the boundaries of Castle Wildland and announced the creation of Castle Provincial Park on January 20, 2017. Th...
019 Keeping Wolves Safe, Returning Bison, and new research into Grizzlies
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - February 11, 2017 00:08 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Bow Valley Wolf Pack This has been a difficult year for wolves in Banff. The dramatic increase in visitation over the past few years has put wolves living in the Bow River Valley, right into direct conflict with tourists. While other Banff packs have managed to avoid the brunt of hum...
018 Summer Reservations, Radium Expansion, Formation of the Rockies and Canadian Towns worth Visiting
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - January 24, 2017 09:19 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Summer Camping Reservations Filling Up Fast In Episode 17, I suggested that anybody thinking of camping in the mountain national parks this summer make a point of booking their sites as soon as the summer reservation system opened on January 11. As it turned out, the reservations wen...
017 2017 Park Passes, Canada Rated a top tourism destination, Global Water Futures and Caribou in the Rockies
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - January 12, 2017 07:57 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Park Passes are still necessary Unless you've been living under a rock for the past year you'll likely be aware that the federal government has decided to make entry into Canada's national parks completely free for 2017. Parks still needs to be able to track the number of visitors ...
016 Winter Ticks, Winter Insect Survival and New Northward Migrations
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - December 08, 2016 20:25 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Winter Ticks Have you ever gone on a spring hike and returned to your car only to find that you had unwittingly picked up an eight legged hitchhiker? Maybe you didn't notice and, a few days later found a growing eight-legged grape tucked away in your navel, or worse - and let's leave...
015 Rutting Moose, Gravel Rivers and Mountains 101
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - November 30, 2016 06:03 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Rutting Moose Recently, photographs hit the web from Alaska, showing two bull moose that had their antlers locked together costing them both their lives. They were found frozen in a slough pond with just their antlers and part of their sides exposed above the frozen surface of the wa...
014 Canada's National Bird, Lake Louise World Cup Cancelled and Desperate Measures for Whirling Disease
Mountain Nature and Culture Podcast - November 18, 2016 23:23 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratingsStory 1 - Canada Jay selected to be our national bird For the past year, the Royal Canadian Geographic Society has been listening to Canadians suggestions for a national bird. While the Americans have the bald eagle, Canada has never adopted a national bird. The Royal Canadian Geographic Socie...
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