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September/October 2020

Morel Outrage

Professional mushroom pickers might be angry they can’t cross the Yukon border this summer. But Yukoners aren’t missing them.

Written by Lori Fox

ILLUSTRATION BY BETH COVVEY

September/October 2020

It’s known as Tinde’e, Tucho and Tu Nedhé. Settlers named it Great Slave Lake. It’s the deepest lake in North America and the second-largest (after Great Bear Lake) within Canada’s borders. For the people living here these waters are indescribable.

Written by Sidney Cohen

Photo By Pat Kane

Summer 2020

Welcoming Back The Northern Butterfly

There are hundreds of varieties across the Arctic, and enthusiast André Langlois says each unique specimen says a lot about the remote environment it calls home.

Written by Jessica Davey-Quantick

Photo Provided

March/April 2020

Peeling Back The River

Bobbi Rose Koe on launching an Indigenous tour company and heading out onto her ancestral lands on the Peel River.

Written by Jessica Davey-Quantick

Cathie Archbould

March/April 2020

The Magical, Marvellous, Mysterious Lichen

Both organism and ecosystem, these colourful chimeras are the quintessential core of their northern habitat.

Written by Lori Fox

Summer 2020

Building A Better Snowmobile

This Yukon inventor has big plans for a clean, green hydrogen-powered snowmachine.

Written by Lori Fox

PHOTO BY CATHIE ARCHBOULD

Summer 2020

Mosquito Serenity

It's not about battling the bugs. It's about learning to surrender.

Written by Anna Tupakka

Illo by Beth Covvey

Summer 2020

A Lynx Fixed My Car

Help comes in many forms when you're driving around the North.

Written by Joe Ordonez

Summer 2020

Humbled By The Donjek

It’s a route-finding challenge for experienced wilderness trippers, and a dangerous awakening for the overconfident, unprepared–and GPS- dependent–backpacker. Watch your step...

Written by Anna Tupakka

Photo By Anna Tupakka

Summer 2020