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Trail series part 3: Old Fort Point and Valley of the Five Lakes

Since the Signal Mountain wildlife corridor stretches into this region, wildlife were considered when recommending trail changes.

Passion for growing

After testing the waters with one apprentice last year, Twin Meadows Organics­­­­­­­—the couple’s family-owned farm in McBride, B.C.

Big gay party

It was an amazing weekend for celebrity sightings in Jasper, as Shania Twain, Annie Lennox, Reba and Cher were all in town to celebrate the fourth annual Jasper Pride Weekend. OK. You caught us. They weren’t actually here.

The man behind the brew

“We drink in every stage,” he says while drinking a pint of his latest creation, Father Dave’s Bohemian Pilsner. “That way if something’s wrong we pick it up right away.

Moving up the food chain

For Caroline Roy, who first moved to town in 1998, it took 10 years.

Hinton cancer patient navigator assists rural patients

Fortunately, in the mid 1990s, the Hinton Health Centre opened a cancer clinic that can administer chemotherapy to patients in the region—Jasper, Grande Cache, Hinton and Edson.

Backcountry users ‘vilified’ in caribou debate

“It’s impossible to have a rational conversation about this because it immediately gets couched in ‘it’s people against caribou’ and it’s not,” said Gilbert Wall of Tonquin Valley Adventures.

Deer on the move

The deer’s muted brown colouring makes it difficult to see in the dappled morning light. This is how deer hide from predators, and also how they make this kind of operation tricky. The tranquilizing drugs take effect slowly.

IN BRIEF - April 11, 2013

Taste of the Town postponed indefinitely For many years, the iconic Taste of the Town has been the key fundraiser for the Jasper Yellowhead Museum and Archives’ operating budget.

National Park 51°µÍø APRIL 11

When complete, the prescribed fire will: - Help to create a strategic firebreak for wildfires burning eastward; - Encourage Whitebark pine colonization on the mid and upper elevation slopes; - Help restore Douglas-fir savannah areas on the lower slop
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