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CANADIAN WILDERNESS a Publication of • Spring 2006 CANADIAN WILDERNESS A publication of • Spring 2006 A Canada’sPark foronly true South desert needs Okanagan? true protection Inside: North American Bird Ambassadors Great Canadian Canoe Quest Capture the Wild Photo Contest New in the CPAWS Henderson Book Series For over 30 years, CPAWS has to make this part of the world such partnered with authors writing about an inspiration to countless artists, parks and wilderness to bring read- writers, poets and adventurers. The ers the CPAWS Henderson Book North, Struzik reminds the reader, is Series. We’re pleased to announce not so much a place as it is a state the newest book in the series: Ten of mind––a landscape that is an in- Rivers: Adventure Stories From the triguing mix of myth and reality, Arctic. science and neo-science, truth and error. Award-winning writer Ed Struzik takes the reader on a journey down Ten Rivers Run Through It is pub- 10 rivers in the Canadian North. lished by Canwest books (www. Along the way, he describes the canada.com/cwb/ ), and is available people, the landscapes, the wild- from booksellers across Canada. life and the history that continues Canadian Wilderness Spring 2006 Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society National Office 506-250 City Centre Avenue Ottawa, ON K1R 6K7 Telephone: 613.569.7226 Facsimile 613.569.7098 Email: [email protected] Web: www.cpaws.org Foundation for Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, Board of Trustees Steven Sims H. Michael Burns Robin Korthals Harvey Locke Trustees Emeritus Phil Dearden Gordon Nelson Al Davidson Bob Peart Wendy Francis National Trustees Stephanie Cairns (President) Susan Ellis In this issue: Mary Granskou David Thomson Joshua Wolfe Justina Ray Letter from the President 3 Wayne Sawchuk Cathy Shier CPAWS at work across Canada 5 David Wright Evan Sorestad Postcards from Jay’s Great Canadian Canoe Quest 8 Leslie Wakelyn Judith Cabrita Nahanni update 9 Julie Huntington Jay Morrison Capture the Wild photo contest 10 David Lang Steven Sims Sherri Watson Boreal birds 12 Jill Pangman Julie Singleton Banff: 10 years of success and frustration 14 Peter Zimmerman BC’s Okanagan: Canada’s living desert 16 Editorial Team Saving a Canadian icon from extinction 18 Ellen Adelberg: Director of Communications Sue Novotny: Editing and design The Ontario Parks Act of our dreams? 19 Jill Sturdy: National Outreach Coordinator Canadian Wilderness is published twice per year by CPAWS (charity #10686 5272 RR0001). Send comments and suggestions to [email protected]. On the cover: The burrowing owl has nearly disappeared from BC’s Okanagan Valley. A © 2006. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any national park protecting its unusual habitat could bring the owl back from the brink of form without express permission in writing local extinction. Find out what CPAWS is doing on page 16. Photo by Wilf Schurig. from CPAWS. Above: “Dawn at Bow Lake”, Banff National Park, AB. This photo by Peter Dettling is a past winner in CPAWS Calgary’s Capture the Wild photo contest. For a sample of this year’s winners, see pages 10 and 11. CPAWS welcomes major partner Notice of CPAWS’ 2006 AGM Mountain Equipment Co-op will October 21, 3:30 PM be working together even more in Delta Bow Valley coming years to advance conserva- Calgary, Alberta tion of Canada’s publicly-owned Canada’s largest retail co-operative, You are invited to attend wilderness lands and waters. CPAWS’ 2006 Annual Gen- and premier provider of quality eral Meeting. Meet CPAWS staff and board, including products and services for self-pro- Both MEC and CPAWS are dedi- the nominees for the Na- pelled outdoor recreation, is now cated to a vision for the protection tional Board of Trustees. a more important CPAWS’ partner of Canada’s public wilderness lands than ever. Trustee nominees include: and waters that can serve as a model Peter Zimmerman for the world, and set a new and in- Sherri Watson Mary Granskou Building on our recent joint efforts spiring standard for some of the last to promote wilderness conservation remaining wilderness landscapes on Please visit www.cpaws. through events including the 003 the planet. org/agm/ for further meet- Boreal Rendezvous canoe trips, the ing details, future nomi- nees, and nominee biogra- 004 True North Wild and Free Stay tuned for details about our phies. speaking tour, and 005-06’s Na- partnership work in coming issues hanni Forever tour, CPAWS and of Canadian Wilderness. Bestway Tours & Safaris introduces the best nature has to offer! • Experience the magnificent isolation and Josephine Kovacs scenery at Bathurst Inlet Lodge, NWT Tel. 604 461-4289 • Immerse in the uniqueness of the Galapagos Toll-free 1-888-280-6890 [email protected] • Learn about lemurs - first hand, in Madagascar • Birding and culture in Morocco and Spain Let Nature Revive Your Spirit! • Geysers, glaciers and geology of Iceland Bestway Tours & Safaris 8678 Greenall Avenue • And much more! Suite #206 Burnaby, BC V5J 3M6 BC Reg # 592 All tours professionally led. For more information, call or see us on the web at... www.naturalheritagetours.com Page • Canadian Wilderness • Spring 006 www.cpaws.org Jacques replaces Timothy Feher, whom we thank for his hard work during his two year tenure. In col- laboration with our national trustees and chapters, Timothy developed a growth strategy that has created genuine excitement in CPAWS and with our conservation partners. Several other talented staff have re- cently joined the CPAWS team. Gil- Nahanni National Park Reserve, photo by Harvey Locke Harvey photo by Reserve, Nahanni National Park lian McEachern became National Conservation Manager in Novem- Message from the President ber, focusing on our Boreal Pro- Spring marks a time of growth gram. Donna Baxter has more re- and renewal in nature, and within • Creating a network of cently joined as Director of Finance CPAWS too. In keeping with this protected mountain eco- and Administration, and Emily spirit, and after extensive internal systems from the Yukon Smith as Interim Office Manager. review, we’ve adopted a bold con- down to Yellowstone Park. servation vision to guide our next Last November, we bid farewell to decade of work. Our goal is that • Creating wilderness corridors Tim Gray who left CPAWS after Canada will set a new global stan- from Ontario’s Algonquin 15 years of service, most recently as dard for the health of the planet by Park to New York State’s our National Conservation Direc- protecting at least half of our re- Adirondacks and within tor. Tim made an invaluable contri- maining wilderness, and managing the eastern Appalachians. bution to CPAWS, in recent years development for the highest level of leading the development of our Bo- sustainability in remaining areas. • Protecting Canada’s coastal real program and new conservation marine ecosystems and vision. Building on our 45 years of experi- large freshwater lakes. ence, our priorities are: Finally, Finance Manager Don Da- The CPAWS staff family is also re- vidson has departed, leaving behind • Ensuring that all of Cana- newing itself. This spring we were a tremendously improved account- da’s parks and protected delighted to welcome Jacques ing and financial management infra- area networks are well man- Gérin as Interim Executive Direc- structure. aged for future generations. tor. Jacques is one of Canada’s most respected environmental leaders and On behalf of the Board, my sincere • Protecting at least 50% of has worked closely with CPAWS in thank you to departed staff, and wel- the Boreal region, home the past as Chair of the Panel on come to new! to some of the largest re- Ecological Integrity of Canada’s maining forests on earth. National Parks. Stephanie Cairns www.cpaws.org Spring 006 • Canadian Wilderness • Page 3 “Ode to the World” by Joyce Majiski, from Yukon’s Three Rivers art exhibit. Photo by Cathy Archbould/CPAWS CPAWS at work across Canada Yukon British Columbia CPAWS-Yukon’s Juri Peepre is bined with video clips featuring the CPAWS-BC has long supported the touring with the Three Rivers mul- people and music of the journeys. 197 moratorium on north-south timedia show, book and art exhibit. Public comments focused on the oil tanker traffic through the fragile The show visited eight communities emotional impact, beauty, diversity coastal waters of BC. The coastal in British Columbia’s interior this and symbolism of the exhibition. waters are again at risk due to a pro- winter. CPAWS-Yukon thanks the Kelowna posed crude-oil pipeline from Al- Art Gallery, CPAWS-BC, Kam- berta to B.C.’s northern coast. Be- The Three Rivers: wild waters, sa- lops Naturalists, North, Central and sides cutting a 40-metre wide swath cred places art exhibition was at the through 1150 kilometres of northern Kelowna Art Gallery until early ecosystems, causing habitat loss, April, and re-opens at the Art Gal- disrupting wildlife movement, and lery of Peterborough, Ontario, on fragmenting protected areas, the May 6th, with a multi-media pre- Enbridge Inc. project would involve sentation scheduled at the gallery construction of a marine terminal for May 4th. The book, Three Riv- for huge oil tankers in Kitimat. ers: the Yukon’s Great Boreal Wil- derness (Harbour Publishing, 005) If the moratorium is lifted, Enbridge will be available at the Three Rivers plans to send six or seven tankers of show. You can also purchase it on- South Okanagan Naturalists, Wild- oil from Kitimat each month. Three line at cpawsyukon.org/store. sight, and Bulkley Valley Natural- quarters of British Columbians sup- ists for co-hosting the BC interior port the moratorium. Find out how More than 300 participants at the events.
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