About Don Meredith
I am a writer and biologist living in Alberta, Canada. I wrote a monthly column for the Alberta Outdoorsmen magazine, and have published articles for several other magazines.
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
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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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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
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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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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
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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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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 →
Posted in Alberta, Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Lorne Fitch
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Tagged Bighorn, Castle Parks, erosion, headwaters, hydrology, Livingston, Lorne Fitch, North Saskatchewan River headwaters, OHV, OHV damage, OHV restrictions, OHV stream crossing, Porcupine Hills, stream trout
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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
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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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Copyright © 2018 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. Lake ice is a wondrous thing. When thick enough, it allows us to walk, skate or ski on it, or even drive vehicles over it to cross a lake or go … Continue reading →
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, General
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Tagged Fallis, ice damage, ice heave, lake ice, lake ice contraction, lake ice expansion, lake ice heave, lake ice power, lake ice pressure ridges, lake shore ice damage, lake shore ice heave, pressure ridges, Seba Beach, Seba Beach Heritage Pavilion, Village of Wabamun, Wabamun, Wabamun Lake
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A Photo Essay Copyright © 2018 Don H. Meredith, All Rights Reserved. As we followed the long string of red tail lights winding ahead of us in the predawn darkness, it became apparent just how momentous an occasion everyone was … Continue reading →
Posted in Astronomy, General, Travel
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Tagged 2017 American Solar Eclipse, 2017 wildfires, Central Wyoming, dark sky, Don Fleming, eclipse chaser, Eclipse Reflections, eclipse watcher, Neil Fleming, Olympus, Shadow Bans, Shoshoni, Sky News, Sky News magazine, solar eclipse, Solar Eclipse Timer, total solar eclipse, totality, umbraphile, wildfires, Wyoming
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