21+ hour, 19+ min ago   (1787+ words) KANANASKIS COUNTRY – “My God, it’s quiet,” says Ted Christensen from inside his lookout on the rocky high-point of Moose Mountain. The fridge hums, the stove clicks, wind batters against the outside of his four-walled perch, reminders that up here, he…...

23+ hour, 19+ min ago   (524+ words) As temperatures cool and leaves turn into autumn colours, something strange yet familiar is in the Bow Valley air. Let’s call it love, feistiness and the undeniable mating calls of yearning males in the wild. No, it’s not Saturday night…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (515+ words) While white-nose syndrome can be absolutely devastating in bats, Lisa Wilkinson, a senior species at risk biologist and the provincial bat specialist with Alberta Environment and Protected Areas, says bats at most monitored sites in Alberta seem to be holding…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (838+ words) BANFF – For the first time, re-introduced threatened fish are spawning naturally in Hidden Lake in Banff National Park. These westslope cutthroat trout originated from more than 10,000 eggs collected and incubated by Parks Canada in 2021 and 2022 and put into the lake…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (101+ words) Rocky Mountain Outlook LETTER: Alberta's wildlife is for everyone In response to the Rocky Mountain Outlook's article "Canmore wildlife conservationist questions call not to investigate Alberta parks minister." Despite the ethics commissioner’s decision that there were insufficient grounds to investigate…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (269+ words) KANANASKIS COUNTRY – A woman died after a fall from Mount Yamnuska in Kananaskis Country last week. RCMP said officers were called shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday (Aug. 19) when another trail user reported seeing the woman fall. “It’s under investigation as to…...