Author Archives: Don Meredith
Is Science Important Only During Pandemics?
Guest Blog: Biologist Lorne Fitch has once again provided an essay for my blog. It is an opinion piece that was first published in the May 14, 2020 Lethbridge Herald. Lorne’s previous essays posted here can be found by putting “Lorne … Continue reading
Daylight Moving Time
Changing the time twice a year has a lot of ramifications for our well being. Continue reading
A Fisher at the Feeder
Copyright © 2019 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved “Don,” my wife said in a half-whisper. “Come quick.” It was an October morning just before sunrise, and I was doing my early morning routine of reviewing and deleting email messages … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, General, Wildlife
Tagged acreage, Alberta parkland, Alberta Trappers Association, Badry, blue jay, Calgary Zoo, Chris Fisher, Conservation Northwest, Don Pattie, Edmonton Area Land Trust, Fisher, fisher introductions, fisher reintroductions, infrared flash, infrared photography, J. Dewey Soper, parkland, Pattie, Pekania pennanti, Proulx, red squirrel, suet, suet cake, trail cam, U.S. National Park Service, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington State, Woodard
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Public Land – Alberta’s Best Idea
Apology: For those of you who have been waiting for me (Don) to update my blog (a steadily decreasing number, I know), I must apologize. I know in this fast-paced world blogs are to be regularly updated with fresh content … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, General, Lorne Fitch
Tagged Alberta public land, Attwater's Prairie Chicken, Eastern Slopes, healthy landscapes, natural heritage, other unimproved lands, public land, Sage Grouse, selling public land, Texas public land, Wallace Stegner, watersheds, wild land, wild space
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Bighorn Country—A Good Idea We Shouldn’t Squander
Note: In November of 2018, Alberta Environment and Parks opened a discussion about its proposal for the protection of the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River, or Bighorn Country, an area that has been needing protection from abuse for many … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, General, Wildlife
Tagged Alberta Environment and Parks, Bighorn Country, Fish and Wildlife biologists, Fish and Wildlife Officers, Fish and Wildlife technicians, headwaters, land stewardship, North Saskatchewan River, public land use zone, Rachel Notley, Shannon Phillips, species-at-risk, threatened species, watershed, Wildland Parks
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Braking for the Planet – Learning the Limits
Guest Blog: Continual and increasing consumption of products and services is a corner stone of our economy. Technology leads that charge. In the following essay biologist Lorne Fitch (and frequent guest blogger here) explains how the on-going pace of technology isolates … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Lorne Fitch, Wildlife
Tagged Adam Norris, Arctic grayling, Athabasca rainbow trout, bull trout, Clayton Lamb, cruise control, cutthroat trout, economic values, environmental limits, environmental threshold, global warming, grassland songbirds, Jason Unruh, limits, linear features, over-consumption, over-consumptive lifestyle, prairie grasslands, regulatory limits, road density, social values, technology, threshold, tipping point, Travis Ripley, Wapiti River
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A Rock and a Hard Place
Copyright © 2018 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. The phrase “between a rock and a hard place” is used to describe someone having to make a choice between two difficult options. It is indeed where our politicians in the … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Climate Change, Environment
Tagged Alberta Progressive Conservatives, BC First Nations, bitumen, British Columbia, carbon dioxide, catastrophic environment failure, Climate Change, CO2, dilbit, diluted bitumen, Energy East pipeline, Federal Court of Appeal, First Nations, global warming, greenhouse gas, human-caused climate change, human-caused global warming, Justin Trudeau, Kinder Morgan, mass human migration, National Energy Board, Northern Gateway pipeline, oil pipeline, Petro-Alberta, petroleum distillate, Progressive Conservatives, Rachel Notley, Scientists Warning, sea level rise, settling ponds, severe weather, Trans Mountain pipeline, wildfires
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The Science behind OHV Restrictions
Guest Blog: With the creation in Alberta of the Castle provincial and wildlands parks, the proposed parks in the headwaters of the North Saskatchewan River (Bighorn) and the recreation plans for the Livingston and Porcupine areas of southern Alberta, there … Continue reading
How Did They Get Here?
I wrote this piece back in 2005 that describes how our native fish arrived in Alberta. I’m posting it here because I believe it’s important information to understand when we talk about species-at-risk and why protecting habit and wild places … Continue reading
Posted in Alberta, Fishing
Tagged Arctic grayling, brook trout, bull trout, burbot, Columbia River, cutthroat trout, fish, fisheries, Fishing, Fraser River, Glacial Lake Agassiz, Glacial Lake Edmonton, glaciation, Jasper National Park, Joseph Nelson, lake trout, lake whitefish, Martin Paetz, Miette River, Missouri-Mississippi refugium, mooneye, Moose Lake, mountain whitefish, northern pike, Peace River, pothole lakes, rainbow trout, refugia, refugium, Yukon refugium, Yukon River
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