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UP HERE - JUL/AUG 2025

Just Wait and See

Much of what nature has to offer in the North is easy to spot. But take your time–there’s a payoff for your patience

Written by Page Burt

Photo by Page Burt

UP HERE - JUL/AUG 2025

Safe or Sorry: Up to You

11 rules for surviving your wilderness adventure

Written by Dwayne Wohlgemuth

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UP HERE - JUL/AUG 2025

Big, Bad Bruins?

How I learned to stop worrying and love—or at least not fear—the bear encounter

Written by Rhiannon Russell

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Tear Sheet

Wolf Watching on the Tundra

Few wilderness creatures arouse more controversy and curiosity than wolves do

Written by Alex M. Hall

Photos by Alex Hall

UP HERE - MAY/JUN 2025

In Cold Bloom...

See Arctic adaptation in six plants, from poppies to prickly saxifrage

Written by Page Burt

Photos by Page Burt

UP HERE - MAR/APR 2025

Nature... and Nurture

How a popular northern hot spring caters to visitors from near and far—and bears, moose and snails

Written by Haley Ritchie

Photo by Haley Ritchie

UP HERE - MAR/APR 2025

Things that Go Flap in the Night

But for how much longer? Short-tailed shearwaters can migrate 30,000 kilometres, but the warming oceans may be more than they can handle

Written by Page Burt

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UP HERE - MAR/APR 2025

Mystery on Arctic Ice

Grolars. Pizzlies. They were a riddle worthy of the Hardy Boys. Biologist Evan Richardson’s big question: Could these hybrids have cubs?

Written by Trina Moyles

Photo by Jenny Wong

UP HERE - JAN/FEB 2025

Hare, There… and Everywhere

From the boreal forest to the top of Ellesmere Island,
these animals are a familiar sight in the north.
Just don’t call them rabbits

Written by Page Burt

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UP HERE - NOV/DEC 2024

The Prophecy

A murre colony on Nunavut’s Coats Island has a lot to say about the future of animals and plants in the North—and elsewhere.

Written by Alanna Mitchell

Photo's courtesy of Douglas Noblet

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