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		<title>BUFFALO LESSONS How Bison Returned to Banff National Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 23:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[BUFFALO LESSONS  How Buffalo Returned to Banff National Park By Karsten Heuer Foreword by Leroy Little Bear Introduction by Harvey Locke BUFFALO LESSONS is riveting inside account of one of the most ambitious wildlife conservation projects in North American history: the reintroduction of plains bison to Banff National Park in 2017.  Once nearly driven to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>UNDERSTORY, An Ecologist&#8217;s Memoir of Loss and Hope</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2025 11:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Understory, An ecologist’s memoir of loss and hope. by Kevin Van Tighem A deeply personal and evocative journey into the complexities of nature, grief, and the search for meaning in the autumn of life.Drawing on a lifetime spent in the wilds of western Canada’s national parks and years of conservation work, Van Tighem reflects on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Oldman&#8217;s River by Sid Marty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 13:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Oldman’s River &#8211; new and collected poems by Sid Marty. Beloved for his intimate, lyrical poetry, Marty’s depiction of selfhood, connection to place and to landscape have proven him a unique and dissenting voice in Canadian literature as well as a consistent presence in the Canadian environmental movement. These are poems, often strongly resonant of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bears Without Fear by Kevin van Tighem</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Feb 2024 21:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Rocky Mountain Books: Fear of bears seems almost to be part of what it is to be human. Our species emerged out of the depths of time into a world already populated by these great carnivores. Before we mastered iron and later developed firearms, we had few defences against bears—only watchful caution and elaborate [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alberta Game Warden Behind the Badge of 172</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; ALBERTA GAME WARDEN Behind the badge of 172. By Jim Mitchell Retired Alberta Game Warden Jim Mitchell’s career spanned 38 years with the Province of Alberta.  His postings were spread over a great deal of the Alberta landscape including the Sundre District.  During the years that Johnny and I were managing the Ya Ha [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sid Marty  &#8211; Oldman&#8217;s River</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Oct 2023 19:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Cyndi Smith for sending this link to Sid Marty&#8217;s recent book &#8211; Oldman&#8217;s River: new and collected poems &#8211; by Andrew Nikiforuk. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/26/Sid-Marty-Tribute-Alberta-Rockies/?utm_source=daily&#38;utm_medium=email&#38;utm_campaign=261023]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wildlife of the North</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Sep 2023 12:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Halle Flygare proudly displays his recently released book, Wildlife of the North, Animals of the High Latitudes of North America and Europe co-authored by Valerius Geist, Geoffrey Holroyd, and Wayne Lynch.  Retail value $29.95. Photo by Gord Antoniuk. Halle has kindly donated 4 copies of this book to the Park Warden Service Alumni Society as [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Wardens in Arms 2009 Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2022 21:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Off The Beaten Track &#8211; women adventurers and mountaineers in western Canada.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2022 13:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; Off The Beaten Track, women adventurers and mountaineers in western Canada. Authored by Cyndi Smith. &#160; Coyote Books, 1989 &#160; Cyndi captures the lives of 14 independent and adventurous women. These women were explorers, writers, artists, photographers, mountaineers and trail guides who enjoyed exploring the mountains during the period 1885 to 1945.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Fifty Percent of Mountaineering Is Uphill by Susanna Pfisterer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2021 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fifty Percent of Mountaineering Is Uphill by Susanna Pfisterer Winner of the 2017 Alberta Readers&#8217; Choice Award! Fifty Percent of Mountaineering Is Uphill is the enthralling true story of Jasper’s Willi Pfisterer.  Willi is a legend in the field of mountaineering and safety in the Rocky Mountains. For more than thirty years he was an integral part [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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