Floods may be the new normal

Floods may be the new normal

Calgary Herald, June 21 2014

In Flood Forecast, a new Rocky Mountain Books manifesto, longtime Canmore resident and world-renowned water expert Robert Sandford and Water Canada editor Kerry Freek detail the frightening flooding in Alberta and Toronto in 2013 and argue that the worst could well be yet to come. 

Their most unsettling conclusion? Changes to the earth’s climate have enabled our atmosphere to hold much more water vapour than in years past and that far from “one in 100 year” events, the resulting extreme weather and flooding is the new normal.

The following is excerpted with permission from Flood Forecast: Climate Risk and Resiliency in Canada.

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All Fisherman Are Liars

All Fishermen Are Liars from Gray Ghost Productions on Vimeo.

John Gierach shares some life wisdom from the stream.

New from McLennan Fly Fishing!

New from McLennan Fly Fishing!

Trout Streams of Alberta (Revised and Updated 2014)

A national best-seller, published in 1996, winner of the Andy Russell Nature Writing Award, Trout Streams of Alberta is once again available.

Dancing on Air

A new 'Accoustic Folk Jazz' CD from Jim & Lynda McLennan.

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Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists

Photo, Mike Deal, Winnipeg Free Press

Scientists go fishing for old documents
 
by Mary Agnes Welch, Winnipeg Free Press, Dec 05, 2014

Fish and water scientists turned into scavengers this week, descending on a soon-to-be-closed federal library to salvage hundreds of books, journals and rare reports that are about to be tossed.

The library at the Freshwater Institute on the University of Manitoba campus is one of seven slated for closure by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

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Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists

By Andrew Nikiforuk, TheTyee.ca, Dec 09, 2013

The Harper government has dismantled one of the world's top aquatic and fishery libraries as part of its agenda to reduce government as well as limit the role of environmental science in policy decision-making.

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