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Wild Jobs: Warden Service Dog Handler

Tyler Dixon — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 18:24:26 +0000

Back in early 2015, before the Wild Jobs concept was even an idea, I wrote a story called Rescue Dogs: More Than Man’s Best Friend where I detailed the work of avalanche rescue dogs. For [...]

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Vintage Photographs of Park and Game Wardens

Tyler Dixon — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 09:00:32 +0000

I’ve been fascinated with the National Parks Warden Service for years. They’ve been the topic of several stories, including my years long search for one of Bill Peyto’s mysterious cabins and they were profiled in [...]

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Wild Jobs Part Twenty: Park Warden

Tyler Dixon — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:00:29 +0000

“It had been a long day. Ed’s fifty-seven winters combined with the warm sun of later afternoon weighed heavily on his eyelids, so he drowsed in the saddle, riding with a slack rein. Sometimes he [...]

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Wild Jobs Part Seventeen: Helicopter Pilot

Tyler Dixon — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:00:48 +0000

People come from all over the world to gaze in wonder at the Canadian Rockies. There are so many ways to immerse yourself in their rugged beauty, from your own two feet to the back [...]

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Historical Photographs of Banff’s Cave and Basin

Tyler Dixon — Thu, 23 May 2019 17:21:10 +0000

Banff’s Cave and Basin is the birthplace of Canada’s national park system. In 1883 three railway workers, brothers William and Tom McCardell and their partner Frank McCabe, “discovered” the cave and basin on the lower [...]

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Canada’s National Bird Shouldn’t Ruffle Any Feathers

Tyler Dixon — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 00:53:35 +0000

“If I had to come up with a bunch of words to describe Canadians, I would pick friendly, hardy, adaptable, intelligent, trusting, and opportunistic. If I had to pick a bird that fit those characteristics, [...]

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Share The Chair

Tyler Dixon — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 03:20:30 +0000

If you’re reading this there’s a good chance you frequently visit Banff National Park, the closest national park to Calgary. It’s easy to see why people flock to Canada’s flagship park; breathtaking mountain vistas, cascading [...]

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Yoho’s Stone Bugs

Tyler Dixon — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 03:04:43 +0000

“The Burgess Shale is not unique, but for those who study evolution and fossils it has become something of an icon. It provides a reference point and a benchmark, a point of common discussion and [...]

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Lake of the Little Fishes

Tyler Dixon — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 23:10:13 +0000

Lake Louise, one of the most photographed and visually stunning lakes in the world, needs no formal introduction, but are you aware of how the lake became so popular? The lake was officially “discovered” in [...]

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The Hermit of Inglismaldie

Tyler Dixon — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:20:21 +0000

Banff National Park was a very different place in the early 1900’s than the world-class nature preserve we know today. Two coal-mining towns, Anthracite and Bankhead, both long since abandoned, were operating just outside the Banff [...]

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