Owner: Gone Wild URL:http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/gonewild/default.aspx Join Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:15:30 -0500 Rating:0 Site Description: You'd think Larry Pynn would have heard or seen all things outdoors during three decades of reporting for The Vancouver Sun, either through coverage of environmental issues or his incessant roaming of the province during his own time. Truth is, he constan Site statistics:Click here
Peace River Power -- What is at Risk? 2008-10-11 18:04:00 The province, through BC Hydro, is interested in flooding another stretch of the PeaceRiver
known as Site C, downstream of the community of Hudson's Hope. Chances are you've never been there. But you can get a sense of what would be lost by reading about...(read more)
Gwaii Haanas No Place For Scuba Divers 2008-10-11 15:51:00 The waters surrounding Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve may offer some of the best scuba diving in the world. But don't expect to see it any time soon. Vancouver entrepreneur Mike Lever (www.nautilusexplorer.com) travels from Alaska to Baja every year...(read more) Read more:Place
, Scuba
Grouse Mountain: wind power a threat to wildlife 2008-10-09 21:02:00 The most prominent clearcut in B.C.? You'd have to give consideration to The Cut at Grouse Mountain
, an eyesore that has remained unchanged even as clearcuts on provincial Crown forest land have evolved over the years to better fit the landscape. Now,...(read more) Read more:power
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Whales On Our Doorstep 2008-10-09 20:41:00 Want to paddle with killer whales? You don't have to travel to Telegraph Cove on northern Vancouver Island. The southern resident killer whales regularly show up July through September in Haro Strait on the west side of Washington's San Juan Island, where...(read more)
Is Backcountry Safety Everyone's Business? 2008-10-09 17:53:00 I know the dark side of an ambitious wilderness experience. I have been plucked from the Stikine Plateau by a search-and-rescue team when I could hike no farther. And I have almost drowned crossing the Twitya River solo in a snowstorm in the Northwest...(read more) Read more:Business
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Sustainably wasted fish: a trawler's legacy? 2008-10-31 14:04:00 Anyone who believes in catch and release, and the sanctity of even a single fish's life, had best avoid a commercial trawl vessel.
I spent two days aboard a federal research trawler, the W.E. Ricker, off the west coast of Vancouver Island for The Vancouver Sun's Shifting Seas series and saw a lot of fish and invertebrate marine life scooped up by the bottom trawl net -- and a lot that went
Minister Takes Leap Atop Manning Park 2008-10-23 08:49:00 Wait a minute. Who is that slipping through the locked gate to the Grouse Grind past the 4:30 pm closing time?None other than Environment Minister
Barry Penner, looking for some fresh air after attending a wind turbine conference in downtown Vancouver.There is a spring in his step, too. He got married over the Thanksgiving weekend to fellow Chilliwack resident Daris LaPointe in sunshine atop a sno Read more:Manning
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