Why is Vancouver Considered the Loneliest City in Canada?
Canada’s city of Vancouver has long held a reputation for being socially aloof and unfriendly. The reason why goes beyond a single factor or explanation.
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Sasquatch in the Media
An update on the reception so far of my book, In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch.
Continue reading →The Year of the Sasquatch
Tomorrow, my first book, a work of narrative non-fiction, entitled In the Valleys of the Noble Beyond: In Search of the Sasquatch is being published in by Grove Atlantic in the U.S.
Continue reading →Gold Prospecting in British Columbia’s Golden Triangle
A firsthand look inside a gold-prospecting operation in British Columbia’s remote Golden Triangle, near Stewart, where geologists drill deep into the Coast Mountains in search of gold and other mineral deposits.
Continue reading →Canada’s Disappearing Giants: British Columbia’s Old-Growth Forests
Al Jazeera Online is running a photo essay I’ve produced about old-growth logging in the ancient temperate rainforests of British Columbia and the struggle to protect some of the world’s largest trees and forest ecosystems.
Continue reading →How Do Trees Make Rain?
Wet coastal forests are important because the water they hold in their branches after a rainfall evaporates and becomes clouds and rain in dryer areas further inland.
Continue reading →The Nathan E. Stewart Oil Spill
In October of this year, the Nathan E. Stewart tugboat spilled diesel near Bella Bella, BC. My Al Jazeera report examines the impact on the Heiltsuk Nation.
Continue reading →Discovering an Indigenous Stone Fish Trap in British Columbia
The traditional stone fish trap of Northwest coastal indigenous cultures was an ingenious and environmentally conscious method of harvesting salmon.
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