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Saturday, 20 December 2008 00:10 |
According to Wired Magazine, the largest waves in the Pacific Northwest are getting higher by seven centimetres a year but scientists don't have a clue why. Some researchers feel that this increase in wave height could end up doing more damage to properties then the impacts of rising sea levels causes by global warming.
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Friday, 05 December 2008 18:13 |
 A big congrats goes out to friend of the site, Tony Palmer of Undercurrents paddling shop. He was recently awarded the first ever Paddle Canada Alberta Environmental Super Hero Award.
Tony has been quietly working away in the background for projects that benefit both Albertans and all of Canada.
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Saturday, 08 November 2008 22:40 |
Friend of the site, Tony Palmer of Undercurrents in Calgary sent me a really cool video from a piece on science show, Daily Planet.
It shows the process of making artificial rivers out of natural rivers and highlights the river course on the Kananaskis River in Alberta.
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 13:50 |
 The old growth forests of northern Ontario's Temagami region may fall victim to widespread clear-cutting if an Ontario government plan passes unchecked, say environmental and tourism groups.
Yesterday the Ministry of Natural Resources released a draft forestry management plan for the next 10 years. In it, they could reduce the buffer zone around canoe routes and historical portage trails that make Temagami such a great place to paddle.
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Friday, 08 August 2008 07:03 |
 As reported a couple months ago, we looked at the issue surrounding the rewriting of the Navigable Waters Protection Act by Transport Canada.
This is a very serious issue that affects all paddlers across Canada. Transport Canada would like to eliminate the developer's obligation to consider impacts on navigation when building dams, bridges, causeways and other invasive structures...
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Friday, 25 July 2008 06:53 |
Remember a couple of weeks ago when we talked about an
uproar between Ohio and Kentucky
around a rock that was stolen from the Ohio River?
You know, the 8-ton rock that was over on Kentucky's side of the river also known as
the Indian Head Rock. The Bluegrass
State is upset that the rock
was removed...
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Monday, 23 June 2008 07:21 |
A big congratulations goes out to the Florida based, non-profit group, ECO-Action
for recently reaching a major milestone. They recently completed their 500th
organized cleanup.
Talk about dedication, for the past 12 years, been rounding
up people to paddle around Central Florida's
waterways in canoes picking up litter.
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 11:07 |
I recently received an email from Mountain Equipment Co-op with
the really great. Canadian
Parks and Wilderness
Society (CPAWS) and Mountain Equipment Co-op partnered together to start
thebigwild.org.
The vision is keep at least half of Canada's public
land and water wild forever. The website has a large education component explaining
why it is important to keep large tracks of roadless, bridgeless land wild and
free.
They are also offering The Big Wild Challenge and
encouraging people to dedicate their next wilderness trip (big or small) to protecting
big wild spaces.
More info: The Big
Wild
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 19:45 |
Turtle Eating a Plastic Bag
Let's talk
about plastic bags. It's something that everybody uses but it's time that we
stop using them now.
It's
estimated that the world uses 500 billion to 1 trillion plastic bags a year. In
the US
alone, they estimate that it takes 12,000,000 million barrels of oil are
required to produce the 100 billion plastic bags used each year. (Source: reusablebags.com)
When I used
to work at a major outdoor store in Toronto,
I was constantly amazed the large numbers of people who requested bags to carry
home their freshly purchased knapsack. What's with that? They looked at me like
I had two heads when I suggested that they just put it on their back...
It's super
important that we start to educate our students about making sure they don't
allow plastic bags to get into our waterways. Two articles showed up in the
press today about animals ingesting plastic bags and dying slow horrible deaths.
Here is one on a giant turtle in Australia
and another one about 2 pounds of plastic bags found in a minke whale found dead in
the UK.
For those
who missed it a couple of months ago, we posted a piece about the so-called,
Great Pacific Garbage Patch. It's an area twice the size of Texas that is completely filled with around 3
million tons of floating pieces of plastic.
More info and teaching resources: Plastics in our Oceans and Waterways
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Tuesday, 26 February 2008 07:12 |
Directly from the things-you-don't-want-to-run-into file:
Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) in the
UK issued a warning to all vessels in the Pentland Firth to beware of a huge
fishing net that was lost overboard from a fishing boat. It is about the length
of six football (soccer for us North Americans) fields.
Already one fishing
boat has been caught in the net and had to be cut out and towed back to
harbour.
More info: bbc.co.uk
Photo by Jupiter Images
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 05:26 |
This has nothing to do with paddling or
even anything to do with water but it is a great success story that it needs to
be shared.
Canada's largest retail cooperative, Mountain
Equipment Co-Op announced yesterday (Feb 6) that they were able to officially secure
the purchase of Skaha Bluffs in British Columbia's South Okanagan.
The local climbing community has worked for
years to secure public access to the Bluffs. Mountain Equipment Co-op and The
Land Conservancy (TLC) joined the effort in 2006. With financial support from
the province of BC, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, the Climber's Access
Society, and other partners, TLC closed the $5.2 million deal on January 16,
2008.
The landowner was interested in selling the
750 acres that the bluffs were part of. There was great concern that the area would
be developed cutting off access for all.
More info: The Land Conservancy
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