To be buried alive.
I met a young First Nation Blackfoot girl and her boyfriend, and we got to talk about the Oldman River and local horror stories. So, I replied with our 4,500 tarantulas in a bedroom...
Category: The Rocky Mountains Biosphere.
An Introduction to the lifeforms that inhabitant the Rocky Mountains. A series of posts illustrating the animals, plants and invertebrates that live there. Posts on “the building of the Rocky Mountains’, Alpine, Sub-alpine and Montane regions, plus a study of the foothills and Prairie regions.
Taken in the effects on all its lifeform throughout the four seasons.
4,500 Tarantulas in a Bedroom.
I got talking to a young 1st Nations girl while camping beside the Oldman River. Somehow the subject came up to swap horror stories. I went first and hoped to top any story she...
The Quest.
For the Garden of Eden a search for a ‘Pristine Wilderness’ untouched by man, a landscape of beauty and tranquility. Introduction. From a very early age, I was fascinated by small life forms such...
The Rocky Mountain Biosphere. Part 1. Introduction.
Part 1. An Introduction to the Rocky Mountains. Welcome to Our little corner of the world. We like to think that we live in a biological paradise, which is dominated by the Eastern flanks...
The Alpine in Winter.
Part 3. The Alpine Regions in Winter. It’s winter, a deep cold winter, more so in the Alpine regions, which may last for some seven months. Alas, winter is the one time of the...
Flight over the Rocky Mountains Part 4.
We came to realize that our view of this Rocky Mountain Creek and its catchment area was somewhat limiting from the ground. Through a good friend of ours Wendy Ryan, we were introduced to...
Building of the Rocky Mountains.
Rocky Mountains Biosphere, Part 2a. In our little corner of the Rocky Mountains, it appears that the Prairies come in from the east only to be confronted by a sheer wall of rock. This...
Larger Mammals. Rocky Mountain Biosphere. Part 5.
An Introduction, meet some of the larger animals. American bison, (Bison bison), First and foremost we visit the American Bison, sadly now confined as a semi-domestic mammal. This fine specimen is cared for by the...
