Hinton mans gets fine for fishing in Patricia Lake

A Hinton man has pleaded guilty to fishing in Patricia Lake without a permit at Jasper Provincial Courthouse and will pay $150 for his crime. 

Rowdy partier gets $150 fine

A man has been fined $150 for his raucous behaviour at the Honeymoon Lake campsites during the end of June.

Three people found with three kilograms of marijuana

An Edmonton man charged with possessing over three kilograms of marijuana for the purposes of trafficking appeared in Jasper Provincial Court on August 26.

They are beautiful, but slightly goofy looking with heavy antlers. They are the only animal where both the male and female have antlers. They belong to the deer family, with short swift-moving tails and large hooves specially adapted for trotting across the snow. They eat lichen, which no one else wants. They live in high alpine areas and are usually not prey for grizzlies.

North of Jasper, there sits what some still call the final frontier. While the Rocky Mountains south of Jasper all the way past Banff draw in millions of tourists every year, north of Jasper is relatively untouched. The area’s glaciated peaks, canyons, waterfalls and flowering meadows are left alone in comparison. Knowledge of the area’s history is even less common.

Researchers with Natural Resources Canada’s Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) glaciology section recently completed an airborne Lidar survey of the Columbia Icefield, and are looking forward to interpreting the findings. 

The survey, designed by NRCan glaciology section head Dr. Mike Demuth, working with the Canadian Consortium of Lidar Environmental Applications Research (C-CLEAR), took place in early August as part of a C-CLEAR partnership survey flown across Canada to various sites, including the Canadian Rockies. 

A proposed federal park in Labrador highlights evolution in Parks Canada thinking

On the far eastern side of Canada, along the arctic tundra and coastal rocks of Labrador, a federal park unlike one ever seen in Canada is now developing. In the proposed Mealy Mountain National Park, for the first time in a federal park’s history, there could be legal rights for local groups to snowmobile, guide, hunt, fish and gather plants for the indefinite future.