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By Patrick Kyle My interest in native flowers started by taking photos of native flowers in the National Parks and then looking up the names of these flowers in the many books I have acquired over the years. I am an amateur photographer and amateur naturalist. I was born and raised on a southeast Saskatchewan farm where some native prairie surrounded the farm thanks to road allowances and some pasture land where native flowers grew.  I worked for Environment Canada Weather Services for over...

By Patsy Cotterill Understory: An Ecologist’s Memoir of Loss and Hope , by Kevin Van Tighem, 2025. Rocky Mountain Books Ltd. , rmbooks.com Albertan nature writer, Kevin Van Tighem, has published his latest book, Understory , a candid and self-reflective memoir of his life and career as an ecologist and administrator in the mountain national parks. It is probably his best exposé yet of what it is like to be a conservationist in present-day western Canada.  Both background and foreground in the...

By Patsy Cotterill On January 20, the City of Edmonton’s Administration requested City Council’s Urban Committee to repeal both the Ribbon of Green Concept Plan, which had been in existence since 1990, and the Master Plan of 1992, and replace them with a new model, the Ribbon of Green Strategic Plan of 2025. The Committee councillors complied. Like the previous plan, the new one uses land management classifications that specify different levels of ecological protection in different parts of...