Spring 2008
For this issue’s cover story, writer-biologist Frances Backhouse returned to the Khutzeymateen to visit bears she first met in 1990; the research she conducted then supported the creation of Canada’s only grizzly bear sanctuary. Backhouse also wrote about the exotic love dance of the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse for this issue. Other highlights:
* A deluxe safari adventure in Clayoquot Sound.
* Stunning photos from a proposed new national park in the south Okanagan-Similkameen.
* And the mysterious workings of the soil in supporting all life in this province.
Cover: A grizzly bear munches grass in the Khutzeymateen Valley
Photo: Michael Bednar
What to do about the caribou?
Observations from the editor of British Columbia Magazine.
Letters to the editor
See what readers are talking about.
Qualicum: beyond the beach
Venture off the sandy shores of this Vancouver Island village to discover nearby caves, forest trails, rhododendron gardens, and rare fossils.
Desert dreams
Imagining a new national park in the south Okanagan-Similkameen.
Clayoquot safari
In which writer Lynn Tanod trades her leaky nylon pop-up for a posh canvas tent furnished with ornate rugs, antiques, and a remote-controlled gas fireplace.
Grizzlies in paradise
Writer-biologist Frances Backhouse returns to visit old friends in the Khutzeymateen Valley, where her fieldwork helped to create a rare sanctuary for these bears.
The good earth
Just 12,000 years ago, locked beneath ice-age glaciers, British Columbia had no soil. How dirt evolved is the story of life itself in this province.
Dances with grouse
Writer, biologist, and unwitting voyeur Frances Backhouse reports from the Thompson grasslands where Columbian sharp-tails gather each spring to shake their feathered booties.
Surprising spiders
A round-up of 10 intriguing arachnids, from familiar friends to some exceedingly strange species.
The Flying Seven
Just seven years after women were declared “persons” under Canadian law, Vancouver’s pioneering female pilots encouraged their sisters to reach for the skies.
Mythbusting on the West Coast Trail
What hikers should know about Vancouver Island’s famous seaside trek.
