Sunday, December 22, 2013
Dam potential flood protector
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| A flood mitigation expert panel points out TransAlta's Ghost Reservoir could collect flood waters and thus lessen devastation in the city. Photo, Murray Lundberg |
Dam potential flood protector
Ghost Reservoir could be used to contain water
by Jason Markusoff, Calgary Herald, Tuesday, December 17, 2013
A reservoir and hydroelectricity dam west of Cochrane could be one of the best defences neighbourhoods like Bowness and Sunnyside have against future floods, city council was told Monday.
Read article here: http://bit.ly/18HbwYF
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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Heading downstream.
August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Thursday, December 19, 2013
TUC Receives Additional Funding
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Gerry
Thompson, Co-chair (left center) and Robert Eagleson Treasurer (left) present
TUC CEO Jeff Surtees (right center) with cheque. Lesley Peterson, TUC Project
Biologist (right middle) and Don Pike, TUC’s Director of Special Events (right)
were also on hand for the presentation.
Photo, courtesy Trout Unlimited Canada |
Trout Unlimited Canada writes: "TUC receives funding support from Canadian Fly Fishing Championships Conservation Symposium. The funds will be directed towards the Mallard Point side channel enhancement project on the Bow River in Calgary."
Read story here: http://bit.ly/1cVnxJe
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
Two big girls having a grand time!
#bowriver #flyfishing
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
FLOOD - The Other “F” Word?
FLOOD - The Other “F” Word?
Gordon Lightfoot, the icon of Canadian folk music, intones, “When the skies of November turn gloomy” as a warning to ships plying the waters of Lake Superior, even big iron ore carriers. In land locked and generally water short Alberta, Lightfoot’s words don’t have the same cachet, but recent storm events have begun to sensitize us.
The floods of 1995, 2002, 2005 and now 2013 have made us start to search the skies of May and June for signs of impending doom. Spring rain used to fill our prairie souls with joy; now the same rain, especially when it persists for days, fills us with a sense of angst.
With recent experiences we’ve started to look at a flood as the other “F” word. Are we justified in thinking of this phenomenon in such harsh terms?
-Lorne Fitch, P. Biol. Cows and Fish - Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society
Read more here: http://bit.ly/1i2VtYd
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
Two little girls having a grand time!
#bowriver #flyfishing
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
SSRP Info Night - 7pm, Dec 17 at CAOC
SSRP Info Night
7PM - Tue, Dec 17th
at Calgary Area Outdoor Council
Learn more about the South Saskatchewan Regional Plan.
The Calgary Area Outdoor Council is holding an evening of information sharing about the SSRP.
What's good about it? What are the problems? How does it affect the outdoor community?
Katie Morrison (CPAWS), and Al Black (Climbers Access Society) will be making presentations and fielding questions about the SSRP.
The Calgary Area Outdoor Council wants to hear your views on the SSRP so that we may feed into the process. Our aim is to ensure the collective voice of the outdoor community is heard as this important plan nears its final implementation.
The deadline for public consultation is on January 15th and CAOC will be using information gathered this evening before submitting our position.
More info from ESRD: http://bit.ly/IR1gkN
and CPAWS: http://bit.ly/1diVRMq
CPAWS Southern Alberta
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Fin Chasers Magazine - Dec 2013 #4
Fin Chasers Magazine - Dec 2013 #4
Check out 'Home Waters' by Bow River fly fisher Paula Shearer.
Also, contributions from Matt Harris, April Vokey, Clemens Ratschan,
Hank Patterson, Stephan Gian Dombaj, Tarquin Millington-Drake and Barry
Ord Clarke.
Read here: http://www.fin-chasers.com/#1
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
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Saturday, December 14, 2013
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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Michelle clowning with shuttle client.
August 2012
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Thursday, December 12, 2013
Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists
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| 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.
Read article here: http://bit.ly/18oM2wN
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.
Read article here: http://bit.ly/IN16KB
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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| Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles |
Triple-decker pontoon boat trailer
August 2012
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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
WestJet Christmas Miracle
No, this isn't fly fishing. Yes, it's actually a commercial. But we think you'll like it.
Gifts for lucky passengers keep on giving for WestJet
By Paula Simons, Calgary Herald/Edmonton Journal,
December 9, 2013
WestJet has staged a Christmas miracle for some of its
passengers — a holiday stunt that has proved a triumph of social media
marketing.
Read article here: http://bit.ly/JcMuFC
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Seaso
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August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Monday, December 9, 2013
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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The 'Wild Goose' - one of the most attractive wooden boats on the Bow!
August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Sunday, December 8, 2013
The failure of flood control
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| Photo, Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA |
More from Kevin Van Tighem, who writes: “Those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them...”
The failure of flood control
It's hard to think of a name more fitting than Watertown for a city routinely doused by a river, but that was small comfort this past April to citizens of the South Dakota town as they sandbagged their homes and watched water rise in their basements.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/1bqdcjB
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Saturday, December 7, 2013
"Sisters on the Fly"
"Sisters on the Fly": Women celebrating the great outdoors together
A group of 4,000 women are exploring the outdoors together in their personally decorated trailers. CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports.
Watch here: http://cbsn.ws/1ct8q9N
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Friday, December 6, 2013
"Floods come off landscapes, not rivers"
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"Floods come off landscapes, not rivers"
Kevin Van Tighem writes:
I've learned a bit more about this. Calgary: brace yourself for an inundation the likes of which you have never imagined in your worst dreams when (not if) this proposed dam fails.
A dam of this sort has never been placed on a live river before. Even in the seasonal desert streams where they've been tried, there have been many failures. No river hydrologists were involved in the scheme before it was announced. They plan to put the whole river through a culvert (a culvert!!) that will be at least half a km long.
The entire river here is a shifting floodplain of loose gravel. Upstream are forests and slopes that will die and collapse into the floodwaters. In the first or second big flood, the culvert will fill with sediment and be plugged by flotsam.
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada
December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. Established in 1991 by the Parliament of Canada, this day marks the anniversary of the murders in 1989 of 14 young women at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal. They died because they were women.
As well as commemorating the 14 young women whose lives ended in an act of gender-based violence that shocked the nation, December 6 represents an opportunity for Canadians to reflect on the phenomenon of violence against women in our society. It is also an opportunity to consider the women and girls for whom violence is a daily reality, and to remember those who have died as a result of gender-based violence. And finally, it is a day on which communities can consider concrete actions to eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls.
'NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT' COMING TO CALGARY FEB 19, 2014!
'NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT' COMING TO CALGARY FEB 19, 2014!
https://www.facebook.com/BackCastFlyFishingFilmFestival
How Nelson Mandela found inspiration in Canada
Nelson Mandela (1918 - 2013)
How Nelson Mandela found inspiration in Canada
Former South African president given honorary citizenship
The Canadian Press, Dec 06, 2013
Read article here: http://bit.ly/1bMJqf7
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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| Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved |
August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Welcome to the Banff Film Festival World Tour – Calgary for 2014
Welcome to the Banff Film Festival World Tour – Calgary for 2014
Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour - Calgary
This will be the thirty fourth year that the films have been shown in Calgary. It is an opportunity to see some of the best and most exciting films from the 2013 Banff Mountain Film Festival which took place in Banff from October 26th - November 3rd, 2013.
» The film programs are now listed on our site.
Calgary Film Screenings:
First Screening will be at the Rozsa Theatre, University of Calgary
Jan 14th to 19th, 2014
Second Screening will be at the John Dutton Theatre
Feb 5th to 8th, 2014
http://www.mountainfilm.ca/
Patrick Lane: An open letter to all the wild creatures of the Earth
Patrick Lane: An open letter to all the wild creatures of the Earth
Victoria poet Patrick Lane received an honorary doctor of letters degree from the University of Victoria on Nov. 13. Lane, who has won the Governor General’s Literary Award and numerous other honours, has written 25 volumes of poetry, as well as fiction and non-fiction. He is known for what the university called the “gritty honesty” of his style. In keeping with his unique voice, his convocation speech was moving and powerful. Here is the text of his speech.
"It is 65 years ago, you’re 10 years old and sitting on an old, half-blind, grey horse. All you have is a saddle blanket and a rope for reins as you watch a pack of dogs rage at the foot of a Ponderosa pine.
High up on a branch, a cougar lies supine, one paw lazily swatting at the air. He knows the dogs will tire. They will slink away and then the cougar will climb down and go on with its life in the Blue Bush country south of Kamloops. It is a hot summer day. There is the smell of pine needles and Oregon grape and dust. It seems to you that the sun carves the dust from the face of the broken rocks, carves and lifts it into the air where it mixes with the sun. Just beyond you are three men on horses."
Read more here: http://bit.ly/Iqz1cs
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Alberta not protecting Castle Special Place
Alberta not protecting Castle Special Place
By Lethbridge Herald, Opinon on December 3, 2013.
Katie Morrison
CONSERVATION DIRECTOR, CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY – SOUTHERN ALBERTA CPAWS Southern Alberta
The Castle Special Place provides clean water for communities and farms downstream, is home to at-risk species such as grizzly bear and bull trout, and offers world-class recreational opportunities. For more than 20 years, Alberta communities, conservation organizations, recreationalist and local businesses have been calling for legislated protection of the Castle Special Place.
Yet the draft South Saskatchewan Regional Plan, released in October, recommends protecting only the Castle’s rocky mountain tops as a Wildland Park and proposes to designate a few of its valleys as ill-defined Conservation Management Areas. The rest of this iconic landscape, including its headwaters, is left unprotected and is slated for forestry and road-building.
Read article here: http://bit.ly/1dRi3SM
More info here: http://cpaws-southernalberta.org/campaigns/castle
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Monday, December 2, 2013
Op-Ed: A new holiday tradition: Giving Tuesday Canada
Op-Ed: A new holiday tradition: Giving Tuesday Canada
By Rosemary Thompson, Ottawa Citizen, December 2, 2013
http://givingtuesday.ca/
First there was Black Friday, the tradition that grew out of American Thanksgiving where retailers enticed shoppers into their stores with incredible sales that put their books into the black. Then came Cyber Monday, an Internet-shopping spree born out of clever marketing to extend the buying craziness through the weekend.
And now there is something completely new, an idea to channel the spirit to shop into the spirit of giving.
Read article here: http://bit.ly/1asLDGh
#GivingTuesdayCA
Moldy Chum F-Bombs Environment Canada
Moldy Chum F-Bombs Environment Canada
Here's why...
"Canadian Approval of GE Salmon
Egg Production Draws Sharp Criticism"
Environment Canada has given AquaBounty Technologies the go-ahead to produce genetically-modified salmon eggs on a commercial scale at its P.E.I. facility, the company has announced.
AquaBounty's hatchery in eastern P.E.I. has been a research-only production site, but now the company is saying the facility in Bay Fortune has the go-ahead from Environment Canada to produce the fish eggs on a commercial scale.
Read more here: http://bit.ly/1i9Dbpf
Also, click this link for news video clip showing the mickey mouse operation in Panama: http://bit.ly/1bPRp5I
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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| Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved |
August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Imperiled Westslope Cutthroat Trout on Alberta’s Eastern Slopes
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| Photo: Shane Petry |
Imperiled Westslope Cutthroat Trout on Alberta’s Eastern Slopes
By Amanda Halawell, Kathryn Hull and Lorne Fitch, Cows and Fish - Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society (Cows and Fish) - December 2013
From Bow River Basin Council 'Preserving Our Lifeline' newsletter
“As the watershed declines, so do the fish ... ”
Read article here (scroll down to page 5): http://bit.ly/1fY33Ti (please be patient.. pdf takes a few seconds to open)
Looking back along the Bow River - 2012 Season
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| Photo, © 2012 Bow River Shuttles All rights reserved |
August 2012
#bowriver #flyfishing
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