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Apr 26, 20166 min read

How grizzly bears use habitat around trails

At the end of the day, I love it. All of it, even the hard bits. I’ve been waiting a long time to write this blog post… over 3 years in...

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May 27, 20145 min read

The first big reveal of 2014

Well with a title like that, I better reveal something big. So the big news of 2014 so far: It’s stopped snowing (for now at least). The...

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Mar 21, 20146 min read

Gettin’ Amped for another field season

Spring has SPRUNG! It’s March 21, the first bears in the Bow Valley have started to wake up and explore the valley bottoms and I have...

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Mar 13, 20145 min read

The Brainstorm

Data Analysis Hell It’s where grad student go to cry – data analysis. Just saying it out loud makes me cringe. One of the things that...

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Feb 17, 20145 min read

Alberta Grizzlies and the SSRP

In my past life, I worked as the Senior Conservation Planner for the Southern Alberta chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness...

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Sep 23, 20134 min read

Yellowstone and Banff

The open plateaus of Yellowstone make wildlife viewing completely different. Here we are watching wolves about 1.5Km away through...

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May 28, 20135 min read

Volunteer and play in the woods with me!

An example of a high human use trail that I could be sampling – Larch Valley Ok… It’s not all fun and games, but hopefully that title...

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GRR's blog

Apr 23, 20134 min read

Sleepy bears wake up to start another year

Photo provided by John Marriott (For more amazing images, check out John’s website is: http://www.wildernessprints.com/) As the snow...

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Feb 11, 20132 min read

From mountain musings to a PhD

As I neared Ptarmigan Lake, a Park warden on horseback passed me and warned me of a female grizzly with two cubs near the halfway hut. I...

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