From the 50th anniversary of the Calgary Mountain Club we hear from the extreme mountaineers  Sharon Wood, Barry Blanchard, Kevin Doyle and Jeff Marshall

From the 50th anniversary of the Calgary Mountain Club, hear presentation by mountaineering legends: Chic Scott, Urs Kallen and Pat Morrow

Susan Eaton speaks to to Canmore Colleigate students about her recent trip this winter to Antarctica to retrace Shackleton's steps 100 years later.

From the launch to his book 'Ecology & Wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site' hear Robert W Sandford talk about why he wrote the book, and what it means to him.  With introductions by Bill Fisher, Director, Parks Canada and Dr. James Thorsell, International Union for Conservation of Nature. 

For more information check out: http://www.aupress.ca/index.php/books/120169

Take a tour with Canadian artist Robert Sinclair as he reflects on his career to date through his work. The interactive tour through his exhibit at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies is an insightful and open look at his work over the past four decades.

From the Parks Canada Research Updates Speaker Series at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies hear Garry Scrimgeour's presentation Rock Snot: A Blooming Tale Of Algae In Mountain Parks. 

From the Parks Canada Research Updates Speaker Series at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies hear Ben Dorsey's presentation Bear & Ungulate Mortality, Relative to Abundance Along the Canadian Pacific Railway.

From the Parks Canada Research Updates Speaker Series at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies hear Melissa Bain's presentation New Canadians & National Parks.

From the Parks Canada Research Updates Speaker Series at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies hear Masaki Hyashi's presentation Groundwater - The Natural Water Reservoir: Finding of Lake O'Hara Study.

As part of the 2010 Parks Canada Research Updates Speaker Series at the Whyte Museum, listen to Cam McTavish talk about the Carnivore Monitoring Project, specifically regarding the remote cameras.

As part of the 2010 Parks Canada Research Updates Speaker Series at the Whyte Museum, Lindsay Amundsen talks about the Archaeology of the Banff Sanitarium

From a presentation to the Bow Valley Naturalists hear Dr Brad Stelfox, adjunct professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta and the Department of Environmental Design, at the University of Calgary talk about Alberta's Foothills and the Bow River Basin.  His presentation looks at Competing land uses and cumulative effects. 

For more information about the Bow Valley Naturalists visit: http://www.bowvalleynaturalists.org/

From a presentation at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, Canadian artist Takao Tanabe talks about his life, and his art. 

From a presentation to the Bow Valley Naturalists, Jesse Whittington & Trevor Kinley talk about the current state of Caribou In Banff.

From a presentation at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, author Graeme Pole talk about Canadian Railway history with a focus on the Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill. 

From a presentation at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, listen as David Peyto tells stories and reads from the journal of Banff's Town Warden from 1914-1948, Walter H. Peyto.

From a presentation to the Friends of Yoho National Park, Graeme Pole talks about the Canadian Pacific Railway's construction of the Spiral Tunnels and the Big Hill.

For more information on the Friends of Yoho visit: http://www.friendsofyoho.ca/

This week on On Tape, Sarah Stauderman gives her presentation at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies on Charles D. Walcott's Panoramic Photographs of the mountains and his Burgess Shale excavations.

From a presentation at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies, author Jon Turk talks about his new book The Raven's Gift.

To find out more about Jon Turk visit his website http://www.jonturk.net/

From a presentation at the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre, author Norm Crerar shares some stories about the 2008 David Thompson Bi-Centennial Brigade.

For more information on the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre visit: http://www.cmags.org/

From a presentation at the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre, author Emerson Sanford shares some stories of David Thompson's early visits to the Bow Valley.

For more information on the Canmore Museum and Geoscience Centre visit: http://www.cmags.org/

From the Canadian Rockies Snow and Ice Speaker Series brought to you by the IP3 Research Network, Dr Tobias Jonas from the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research in Davos, Switzerland, talks about Research, Monitoring, and Warning Services related to Snow and Avalanches in Switzerland. 

Find out more about the IP3 Research Network at: http://www.usask.ca/ip3/

Artist and best-selling author Roger Thompson presents an illustrated talk focusing on Alberta artist Kim Dorland and Virginia artist JJ Cromer. He explores the ways in which contemporary artists conceptualize nature. The presentation also explores the surprising connections between the fine art and the outsider artist markets as both negotiate the terrain of a new environmentalism.

From a presentation for the Bow Valley Naturalists Dr Mike Gibeau shares some information on the state of bears in Europe.

For more information on the Bow Valley Naturalists visit: http://www.bowvalleynaturalists.org/

Retired Park Wardens Dale Portman and Kathy Calvert talk about the history of mountain rescus in the Mountain National Parks.  You'll gain a unique insight into what it means to be a Park Warden in Banff National Park.

Dr Matthias Bernhardt from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich Germany gives a presentation on Research on Snow and Glaciers in the European Alps.

Dr Danny Marks, Research Hydrologist with the US department of agriculture in Boise Idaho gives a presentation on The impact of Climate Warming on Snow, Climate, and Streamflow in a North American Mountain Basin.

Gordon Stenhouse, a research scientist and the leader of the Foothills Research Institute Grizzly Bear Research Program, reviews 5 years of DNA Grizzly Bear population inventory in Alberta.  Stenhouse also talks about new work on related to Grizzly Bear monitoring. 

From the Park Radio Vault, here is a presentation Chic Scott did in 1998 on the Mountaineering History in Lake Louise.

From a presentation at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies we look at a collection of work from photographer George Webber that focuses First Nation and Hutterite communities as well as Calgary's notorious East Village.

From a presentation to the Rocky Mountain section of the Alpine Club of Canada, local mountaineer Brian Merry talks about his trip to the top of the highest mountain in North America, Denali. 

Find out more about the Rocky Mountain section: http://www.accrockymtn.ca/

Canada Research Chair in Glaciology at Simon Fraser University Dr. Gwenn Flowers shares her presentation Water Under Glaciers: Why some glaciers flow fast and what this means for their survival. 

From a presentation to the Bow Valley Naturalists, this show attempts to prove that anything a big wildlife star can do, one of the smaller supporting cast animals can do even better!  You'll discover that the really big stories of the Rockies are actually told by some of the smallest creatures we have.

Recognized as two of the best and most knowledgeable guides in the area, Joel and Nadine have worked in the Rockies since 1991, both for Parks Canada and now as Great Divide Nature Interpretation.  http://www.greatdivide.ca/

For more information on the Bow Valley Naturalists visit: http://www.bowvalleynaturalists.org/

For the past 15 years researchers have studied bear rubbing trees in seven different national parks. Through the use of remote cameras and intensive field tracking, Carnivore Biologist Cam McTavish and his research team discovered many animals leave signs and/or notes for other animals at these
very special communication trees. Preliminary information suggests these sites may act as “Tree Mail,” where one animal can potentially determine the sex, species, breeding conditions, etc. of another. 

For more information on Bow Valley WildSmart visit: http://www.wildsmart.ca/

From the Canadian Rockies Snow and Ice Initiative Speaker Series, Dr Juan Ignacio Lopez Moreno from Instituto Pirenaico de Ecologia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Zaragoza, Spain, gives his presentation titled: Environmental Change & Water Resources in the Pyrenees. 

For more information on the Canadian Rockies Snow and Ice Initiative presented by IP3, "Improved Processes and Parameterisation for Prediction in Cold Regions" visit: http://www.usask.ca/ip3/

In a presentation for Bow Valley WildSmart, Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary Shelley Alexander Ph.D, shares the results of her recent research involving coyote food sources and human conflicts. 

For more information on Bow Valley WildSmart check out: http://www.wildsmart.ca/

This week, from the Canadian Rockies Snow & Ice Initiative Speaker Series, John Pomeroy, Canada Research Chair in Water Resources and Climate Change at the University of Saskatchewan talks about the creation of the Canadian Rockies Snow & Ice Initiative.

Don Mickle & Rod Wallace tell stories from a horse trip they took following historic trails from Jasper to Banff. 

From a presentation to the Rocky Mountain Section of the Alpine Club of Canada, Chic Scott shares some stories about his time climbing in the Alps in the late 60s and early 70s.

From a presentation at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockes we learn about the Father of Canada's National Parks system JB Harkin from the author of a biography of Harkin Ted Hart. 

Park Radio's own Allan Buckingham got to take one of the Park Canada's Guided Hikes to the Burgess Shale fossil bed sites with Park's Canada Heritage Interpreter Claudia Harding.

Author of Expedition to the Edge, Lynn Martel talks about some of the amazing adventurers featured in her book, at the Alpine Club of Canada Clubhouse.

For more information on the Alpine Club Of Canada visit: http://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/

For more on Lynn Martel check out: http://www.lynnmartel.ca/

From a presentation at the Alpine Club Of Canada Clubhouse, hear author and outdoor enthusiast Ben Gadd talk about 'Why we head for the Woods'.

For more information on the Alpine Club of Canada visit: http://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/

For more on Ben Gadd check out: http://www.bengadd.com/

From a presentation at the Alpine Club of Canada Clubhouse listen as passionate hiker and author Craig Copeland shares some of his thoughts on hiking, and its importance to humanity.

To find out more about Craig & Kathy Copeland visit: http://www.hikingcamping.com

For more on the Alpine Club of Canada check out: http://www.alpineclubofcanada.ca/

From a presentation to the Rocky Mountain Section of the Alpine Club of Canada, hear Steve Fedyna's version of the best 25 rock climbs in the Bow Valley.

Find out about upcoming Rocky Mountain Section events by visiting: http://www.accrockymtn.ca/

Known as “The Land of Fire and Ice”, the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia is home to some of the largest brown bears on the planet. Erupting volcanoes, hundreds of glaciers and thousands of lakes and rivers are where one quarter of the world’s Pacific Salmon come to spawn. Listen as John Paczkowski talks about Kamchatka and the work being done by the Wildlife Conservation Society to protect the Brown Bear. Find out more about their work at http://www.wcs.org/kamchatka

This presentation was put on by Bow Valley Wildsmart. Learn more at: http://www.wildsmart.ca/

John Paczkowski shares with the Bow Valley Naturalists about the work being done by the Wildlife Conservation Society to protect the Siberian (Amur) Tigers, Far Eastern Leopard, and Brown Bear. Find out more about their work at http://www.wcs.org/globalconservation/Asia/russia

To find out more about the Bow Valley Naturalists visit: http://www.bowvalleynaturalists.org/

The Bugaboo Dreams book launch; recorded at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Author Topher Donahue talks about how he came to write a book about Heli-Sports. Donahue tells about his first meeting with one of Canadian Mountain Holidays founders Hans Gmoser, and how that planted the seed for this compelling book. We also hear about some of the research Donahue undertook, and what that taught him about the use of helicopters in mountaineering. If that wasn't enough, we also get a peek at some of the book, with Donahue reading selected passages.

For more information on Bugaboo Dreams visit http://rmbooks.com/books/fall08/bugaboo_dreams.html