Kananaskis Country

“We’re still kind of digesting this, but we’re bridge-building – elder Una and I. We’re not happy with the decision, but we’re going to spring off it and something good is gonna come from it.”

“With a lower snowpack and kind of a more moderate end to winter we should expect to see bears on the landscape pretty much now.”

“We are dealing with highway speeds because it is a highway off-ramp, it is going to require safety audits and we don’t want to rush the process"

“It is important to have different perspectives and we hope that the people who are attending will bring their perspectives and comments and impressions of what happened."

Canada has a fever. Our north is already warming at two to three times the mean global average. Even in the increasingly unlikely event that the world does manage to come together to keep mean temperature increases to below 2 Celsius, Canada is rapidly on its way to being at least 3 C hotter later in this century.

On April 9, Kananaskis Mountain Rescue was called to respond to the scramblers who lost their way taking an alternative route down the mountain after they met up along the trail and agreed to descend together.

PHOTOS: The past week in photography in the Bow Valley

Despite weather suggesting the contrary, wildfire season has returned to the province, taking up the better part of the year running from March 1 to Oct. 31. While snow can linger well into May and make periodic appearances any other day of the year, the hot spots for potential fire dangers are around the corner.

PHOTOS: Animals out and about in the valley

The drainage is located in the Evan-Thomas Provincial Recreation Area, which has not had any major wildfires since 1936, according to the province. That’s almost 90 years of vegetation that’s been able to grow, decay, die, and accumulate – putting the area at a very high risk of severe wildfire.