Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours and Workshops
As my self-proclaimed Wolf Week here on my blog and on my Facebook photography page winds to a close, I wanted to thank all of you for your support and feedback and offer up some final words as potential solutions to the problems wolves face in Alberta, British Columbia, Wyoming, […]
When you feign ignorance, sometimes you get to hear the most interesting of stories. Like of how hunters kill wild wolves. Over the years traveling much of Canada, I have heard some real doozies, like of the time the guy in the Yukon told me how he chased a black […]
Imagine walking along a trail near your house on a beautiful sunny day, your lovely dog racing along beside you darting in and out of every little trail having the time of its life. A dog being a dog. A perfect day! Now imagine being out on that walk and, […]
Hi everyone, this will be the first in a series of blog posts leading up to December 5th, which just happens to be the deadline for submitting comments to the BC government regarding its Draft Management Plan for the Grey Wolf in British Columbia. As many of you already know, […]
The Vancouver Sun has just published an article about my blog post this morning calling for a tourism boycott of the Alaska Highway after a controversial wolf kill contest in northeastern BC came to light earlier today. “Wolf-kill contest in Peace River prompts call for tourism boycott of Alaska Highway” […]
An open letter to Rich Petersen, retired owner of Re/Max Action Realty in Fort St John, B.C. from John E. Marriott, owner of Canadian Wildlife Photography Tours in Canmore, AB, a prize winner in the 2012 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition, and contributing editor to Outdoor Photography Canada […]
Sometime in April 2011, the Pipestone/Bow Valley wolf family in Banff National Park welcomed seven new tiny bundles of joy into their world. Six blacks, one grey, all adorable. Each of the pups grew to an age where they started popping out of the den and eventually even moving away […]
Wow, I go weeks without a blog post and now do two in one day! This is just a quick note to let everyone know that the Canadian Geographic issue with my grizzlies on the cover is now on news stands and in stores throughout Canada. The December 2011 issue […]
On the evening of Monday, July 11th, grizzly bear #108, a five-and-a-half year old female grizzly bear, was hit by a car on the Trans-Canada Highway near Castle Junction between Banff and Lake Louise. While park wardens that were on the scene were hopeful she would survive the impact of […]
Banff National Park has once again failed to live up to its standards as a protected haven for Alberta’s threatened grizzly bears. On Saturday, May 28th late in the evening/night, a female grizzly bear was struck and killed by a speeding Canadian Pacific train on the edge of Lake Louise […]