#alberta native animals

[felidaefatigue]

Got some punk albertan critters sticker designs done! all native species except the rat (iykyk) and my cat.... Might have more. If u have the capability or know a printer who does single/small jobs feel free to use for personal use (like dont get 100 made but a couple for u and a friend w.e.). Not to sell. I might make em into patches eventually myself as well. >>link to download (cat+rat seperate)<<

[saritawolff]

A Patreon request for rome.and.stuff (Instagram) - Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum… that I went a bit overboard with lol. I’ve been waiting for an excuse to draw my favorite ceratopsian, and to digitally adapt my old Pachy marker drawing design.

So! Pachyrhinosaurus! As seen above, there were three known species of Pachyrhinosaurus, living in different locations and eras in Late Cretaceous North America.

The oldest, P. lakustai, was native to the Wapiti Formation of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada. It’s known for the extra spikes it has at the center of its frill.

The slightly younger P. canadensis was native to the lower Horseshoe Canyon Formation and the St. Mary River Formation of Alberta and northwestern Montana. It was the largest of the three.

The youngest, P. perotorum, was native to the Prince Creek Formation of Alaska. As this ceratopsid seemingly stayed put during the long, dark, cold Alaskan Winters, it likely had adaptations for keeping warm.

The depiction of a “woolly” Pachyrhinosaurus was first popularized by Mark Witton as a speculative work, but the trope has prevailed. While many paleontologists find a heavy feather covering on a centrosaurine to be highly unlikely, and maintain that the animal’s size and homeothermy would have kept it warm enough, we still have no skin impressions to suggest that P. perotorum was fully scaly. So a feather coating is not completely out of the question (though it is unlikely). Still, I love the look of a woolly Pachyrhinosaurus and how it challenges our previous conceptions of non-avian dinosaurs. Stranger things exist in nature. I had to include a “woolly” option, especially since I already use the guy as my avatar on my paleo Instagram account, SaritaPaleo.

Pachyrhinosaurus was particularly unique in that it seemingly traded off something that had previously worked for other ceratopsians, horns, for a large nasal boss instead. For Pachyrhinosaurus, a battering ram worked better than a sword.

It was herbivorous, using its strong cheek teeth to chew tough, fibrous plants. Perhaps during the dark and cold Winters, P. perotorum would have also dug for roots or even scavenged carcasses. At any rate, from observations of their unusually conspicuous growth banding, it appears growth for P. perotorum would have been stunted during the harsh Winter, but was extremely rapid in the warmer months, an adaptation for the Alaskan climate.

The tundra of the Prince Creek Formation housed a surprising amount of diversity. Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum would have lived alongside smaller ceratopsians like Leptoceratopsids, as well as other ornithischians like the pachycephalosaurine Alaskacephale and the hadrosaurid Edmontosaurus. Theropods such as Dromaeosaurus and Saurornitholestes, as well as a yet unidentified giant Troodontid, lived here as well. P. perotorum’s main predator would have been the tyrannosaur Nanuqsaurus. Small mammals were also somewhat common here, such as Cimolodon, Gypsonictops, Sikuomys, Unnuakomys, and an indeterminate marsupial.

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[mothanonthesequel]

Thhsn h e l l o

I was wondering what your oddly specific headcannons on any states are or I was wondering if you had any

Yeahh, most of them are gonna be about Alaska and his cities tho (for obvious reasons)

Alaska works in the Arctic Council, as he is the only state to be a part of it anyways. I have more things to say about this but I wont here, but it is a very big topic honestly

Fairbanks has a fear of water he can't see the bottom of. They can swim, but they've been afraid of it since the Fairbanks Flood of 1967

Alaska BIG fan of many science branches... although the Arctic Council requires him to know Earth Sciences, his favorites are probably astronomy and some zoologies (which I've elaborated on the astronomy one particularly in a post before)

Maine knows his invasive and native species

Alaska's biggest opposition is PETA. They fight every year cuz of the Iditarod. They took his moose dropping festival and they will not take any more from him

I've seen this headcanon around and I completely agree. Alaska IS a very much a blankets kinda guy, it's just so true

Montana (And Alberta and if u consider Saskatchewan to be family of Alberta then them, too) has Blood A type blood (non specific on positive or negative)

Hawai'i has a blood type of A (non specific on positive or negative)

Oak has a blood type of O (not because of O in Oklahoma, there's genuine research behind this reason) and New Mexico also has blood type O (non specific on positive or negative)

Alaska has either a blood type of B or AB (non specific on positive or negative)

Vermont is allergic to dust, North Dakota is allergic to pollen, tho other states might be since pollen is a comment allergy

Florida's favorite iditarod team (from this year) was Anna Berington's, since her team of doggies were named off of a "troublemaker" theme. The Dog's names are Ruckus, Rampage, Havoc, Chaos, and Mayhem

Maine has the fastest reflexes/reaction time, cuz yknow... he's basically a cat. Cats have one of the fastest reflexes and reaction times in the whole animal kingdom

Idk this is all I can think of so far, I might update it if I think about it more. It's hard for me to consider what is "oddly specific" but Im sure blood types is certainly oddly specific for me to have thought about before

[rjzimmerman]

Good story from Yale Environment 360, without a paywall (I think), about beavers, public land, wildfires, endangered species, the largest beaver dam in the world, the degradation of that land and the large pond behind the dam due to the tar sands mining activity in the vicinity. In other words, a microcosm of all the bad stuff and good stuff intersecting in one place in Canada. Excerpt from this story:

Wood Buffalo National Park, the largest national park in Canada, covers an area the size of Switzerland and stretches from Northern Alberta into the Northwest Territories. Only one road enters it from Alberta, and one from the NWT. If not for people observing it from airplanes and helicopters, and satellites photographing it, little would be known about big parts of it. The park is a variety of landscapes — boreal swamps, fens, bogs, black spruce forests, salt flats, gypsum karst, permafrost islands, and prairies that extend the continent’s central plains to their northern limit. The wood buffalo in the park’s name are bison related to the Great Plains bison. In this remoteness, the buffalo descend from the original population, and the wolves that prey on them are also the wild originals. Millions of birds summer and breed here. The park holds one of the last remaining breeding grounds of the whooping crane.

Other superlatives and near-superlatives: the delta in the park’s southeast where the Peace River and the Athabasca River come together is one of the largest freshwater deltas in the world; last summer, some of Canada’s largest forest fires burned in the park and around it; and — just inside the park’s southern border — is the largest beaver dam in the world.

The dam is about a half-mile long and in the shape of an arc made of connected arcs, like a recurve bow. The media has known about it for 16 years, and in that time no bigger beaver dam has come to light, so it’s still known as the biggest, and scientists believe it almost certainly is. Animal technology created it, but human technology revealed it.

Many of the beavers that have reestablished themselves globally are descended from beavers that were planted by wildlife biologists. The thriving beaver population of Tierra del Fuego (another place Thie has studied) is descended from beavers brought to Argentina from Canada’s Saskatchewan River, who are themselves scions of beavers transplanted from upstate New York. No reintroduction of beavers was done in Wood Buffalo Park. Thie believes that the beavers who built the dam are of original stock. Like the wood buffalo and the wolves, they were too remote to be wiped out.

The park is suffering the worst drought in its history. Flows are down by half in many places, owing to climate change, water diversion, poor seasonal snowpack, and dams on the Peace River, upstream in British Columbia. A danger that seems inescapable comes from the oil sands that are being mined for crude-oil-containing bitumen, and from tailing ponds that hold trillions of liters of mine-contaminated water. The ponds are near the banks of the Athabasca River, just upstream from the park boundary. They are fatal to birds that land on them. Given the direction that water flows, conservationists and native people fear the tailings will pollute the park eventually. Toxic chemicals have already been found in McClelland Lake, just southeast of the park. Locals stopped taking their drinking water from the lake years ago.

Gillian Chow-Fraser, the boreal program manager for the Northern Alberta chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, in Edmonton, travels in the park often by helicopter, canoe, and foot. She has described the park’s environment as “super degraded.” When I spoke with her by phone not long ago, she talked about a recent tailing basin leak that was not reported to the First Nations downstream of it for nine months. In places that used to flood regularly but now don’t, the land is drying out and vegetation disappearing. Though she crisscrosses the park, she has never seen the world’s largest beaver dam, but she’s grateful that it’s there and bringing the park attention.

[battle-of-alberta]

Hi and welcome to this thing that's sort of a prequel to the timeline I'm working on. The working title is Alberta Story, but as you can see I kind of changed directions midway through as I thought about it more, I figured if I was getting frustrated then surely Ed was also getting frustrated with it so I turned it over to him to express that, haha. I wrote the first half of this last fall and stewed on it for about a year and decided, screw it, I don't know where I'm going with this but I will slap on a few more panels and figure it out as I go.

This might be the closest thing to a reboot of the BoAB main storyline for a while. I wanted to do something that gave a cursory outline of Canadian / Albertan history for people who are new to it, but of course it runs the risk of repeating every narrative Canada / Alberta have about themselves and that's quite frustrating, to be honest! Particularly when you are trying to write characters who lived through a great chunk of it.

I was trying to think about where to "start" the story of Alberta, particularly after reading Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta. A lot of the tongue in cheek ahistorical assigning of Albertan-ness to even protozoic life rubbed me the wrong way even though I found it an interesting narrative, so I wanted to illustrate the difficulty of "beginning".

Additionally: I really find it frustrating in the Hetalia fandom when people kind of take Himaruya's approach and suggest the colonized personifications almost predate colonization somehow, like they were "always there", or the approach that they are direct descendants of some ambiguous ancestral "Native America" that mysteriously no longer exists. At the same time, I sort of understand how it also happens with the narratives we construct ourselves, in textbooks and museums, that have long illustrated "pre-history" (Indigenous history) as opposed to "history" (the "Real" history of Euro-Canadians). It's a cultural underpinning that needs to be undone.

I don't make any ambitious claims to produce real, decolonizing work, I realize there's this big gap in this universe I'm building that acknowledges municipal personifications and only vaguely gestures at the idea of others and there's a myriad of issues with that, but it's a place that I as a euro-canadian myself am starting with and I hope to continue learning and growing from here.

"Here" is summed up as: isn't it crazy that a company that was just gifted 1/12th of the surface of the Earth not only predates the idea of this country and its cities but also still exists and is just a place you end up in at the mall now?

More detailed explanation of each panel follows.

Diver's Claw: Several stories in different First Nations cosmologies reference the Creator or another figure making a flood that covered the whole earth, where a survivor (Wisakedjek in Cree/Ojibwe stories, Na'pi in Blackfoot, etc) sends down a succession of animals to the bottom of the waters to retrieve a piece of the old earth, which they can then use to create anew.

Mounds of Earth: When the Northwest Mounted Police were sent out west from Canada after purchasing the territories (including Alberta) from the Hudson's Bay Company in 1870, they marked the border along what would become the 49th parallel between Canada and the United States with piles of dirt.

Descent from the Stars: This is supposed to be a depiction of Manitou Asiniy, also known as the Manitou Stone or Creator's Stone, a meteorite that has spiritual significance to many Indigenous peoples. As I write this, he (as a sacred being, he is referred to with these pronouns) is currently in the custody of the Royal Alberta Museum which has recently agreed to return him to the site where he was originally taken from near Hardisty in 1866. Currently, the gallery is open for worship and ceremony until it is time to repatriate him.

Bodies liquified in coral: this is NOT a scientific illustration, haha. The idea is that a lot of Albertan identity comes from about 400 million years ago in the Devonian period. At the time, a big chunk of "Alberta" was covered by ocean. The organisms lived, died, and over time became crushed by sediment layered over them. Coral has a lot of holes perfect for holding this sludge and fossilizes nicely here, and it is this layer of Earth's long history that speculators are looking for when drilling for oil.

Lips to a book: Alberta joined Confederation on September 1st, 1905, which our last premier tried to commemorate with a holiday that no one showed up to. Back at the turn of the century however, it was a massive party attended by Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier and the Governor General, a position in Canadian parliament that represents the King or Queen of England. Govenor General Grey (his grandpa was the Earl Grey the tea was named for, I believe) was the one who kissed the bible at this inauguration.

Prince: The prince here is Prince Rupert, who Rupert's Land was named for, and the king in question is Charles II of England (yes, the Restoration and Great Fire of London party guy from the Stuart era). Rupert's Land centred on Hudson's Bay and made up over 40% of what is now considered Canada. The Hudson's Bay Company was granted the charter to all this territory - if they found the Northwest Passage while they were at the business of acquiring beaver or otter pelts, it was certainly a bonus.

The rest is fairly self explanatory, I hope. Like I said, I felt like I was falling into the trap of the same old story of pioneers and exploration that has been absolutely done to death in Canadian history, and I didn't have anything particularly new to say about it that would maintain this storybook level of accessibility so I just. Stopped! Shifted gears! haha. Still, I think the fur trade is a very important piece to the puzzle that often gets either a bit overhyped or glossed over in favour of railroads in Canadian history and almost entirely ignored and forgotten in American history, and it makes sense to start there, particularly for Ed who has a lot of Complicated Feelings about it.

Enjoy! Maybe one day I will figure out part two.

[pleistocene-pride]

Cynomys ludovicianus, better known as the black-tailed prairie dog is a rodent of the family Sciuridae and one of five species of prairie dog ( the others being the white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and Mexican prairie dogs). They are native to the Great Plains of North America found in the Great Plains of North America from southern Saskatchewan and Alberta Canada to Northern Chihuahua, Mexico and from as far east as the US state of Iowa to as far west as Arizona. Black-tailed prairie dogs are highly social animals that live in large "towns" in the wild that may contain thousands of individuals. Towns may be subdivided into two or more wards, based on topographic features, such as hills. Wards are usually subdivided into two or more coteries, which are composed of aggregates of highly territorial, harem-polygynous social groups. A coterie typically consists of a dominant male, 3-4 adult females, their young pups, and yearling juveniles. Individuals within coteries are amicable with each other and hostile towards outside individuals. These rodents are famous for creating elaborate burrow networks which serve as refuges from the external environment and are one of the most important features of their colonies. Burrows are used for breeding, rearing young, and hiding from predators, and are maintained from generation to generation, and serve as stabilizers on the physical and social aspects of the colony. A black tailed prairie dogs diet is primarily comprised of grasses, flowers, forbs, and sedges along with occasionally thistles, roots, worms, grasshoppers, bushes, and cacti particularly prickly pear. Black tailed prairie dogs get the majority of there water from there food. Black tailed prairie dogs are themselves eaten by coyotes, american badgers, bobcats, foxes, eagles, hawks, prairie rattlesnakes, and black-footed ferrets. Reaching around 17 to 21 inches (43 to 53cms) in length and 1.5 to 3lbs (0.68 to 1.36 kgs) in weight (with males being slightly larger than females), black tailed prairie dogs sport rounded heads, compact bodies, and long claws used for digging. The coat is sandy-colored fur with paler coloration on the underside, and a black tipped tail hence there common name. The breeding season occurs from late February through April, after a 33 to 38 day pregnancy a mother black tailed prairie dog will give birth to a litter of 1 to 8 pups. Pups do not open their eyes until 30 days after birth. They remain nursing underground for the first 7 weeks of their life. Pups are weaned very soon after they first emerge from the burrow and start eating grasses. Females within the group all help care for the young. Black tailed prairie dogs typically reach sexual maturity at around 12 to 15 months of age, whilst females often remain with there natal group for life males set off to start there own territory and coterie. Under ideal conditions a black tailed prairie dog may live up to 8 years.

[geewaysgreendayhoodie]

i had to write about two different opinions on the oil sands and one guy was like "well alberta has legislation to moderate the pollution and the economy relies on it, me and the government would have less money if we stopped developing them" and the other guy is like "i have spent years trying to fight them because they are polluting our native land, taking our water and killing our animals, we are suffering from rare and aggressive forms of cancer from the petroleum" and back to "other places would have more money than us"

[rabbitcruiser]

Wood Bisons, YT (No. 3)

The herd currently has a total population around 2,500, largely as a result of conservation efforts by Canadian government agencies. In 1988, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada changed the subspecies' conservation status from "endangered" to "threatened", where it remains.

On June 17, 2008, 53 wood bison were transferred from Alberta's Elk Island National Park to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center in Anchorage, Alaska. There they were to be held in quarantine for two years and then reintroduced to their native habitat in the Minto Flats area near Fairbanks, but this plan was placed on hold. In May 2014, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a final rule allowing the reintroduction of a "non-essential experimental" population of wood bison into three areas of Alaska. As a result, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game introduced the first herd of 100 animals to the Innoko River area in western Alaska in spring 2015.

Currently, about 7,000 wood bison remain in wildernesses within the Northwest Territories, the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba.

Source: Wikipedia

[fyodior]

i would like to speak to ❄️ anon (if they do not mind) and recommend sk8 first. I LOVE WINDBREAKER BUT SK8 IS JUST SO CUTE AND FUN AND IT HAS GREAT CHARACTERS AND A GOOD STORY. if ur like me and prefer story and the people and stuff over action id also recommend sk8 first. i am very biased towards sk8 despite loving both. both are short tho so it wont take long to watch them. i just really like sk8 (im also slightly biased bc canadian character and im from canada so i just find it extra fun to see like. humour about that. im not even that devoted to my country, i just dont often see canadian characters in media that isnt canadian unless theyre for the butt of the joke)

also miss flora, if ur reading this, i know how you said you wonder what state the guild is from but i always wonder what province/territory (and sometimes city) langa is from. like i dont think hed be from ontario, especially not toronto. i dont think hed be from a major city like vancouver. he seems to have enjoyed living in canada too much to have lived in quebec (ik ur americans so for context, quebec is the very french province. they generally hate all of canada and pretty much all of canada hate them too. except 18yr olds bc the legal drinking age there is a year younger so they have to put up w 18yr olds visiting just to get drunk.) i honestly think hed be from farther north, lots more places for him to ski. i think its be really funny if he was from one of the territories or like. alberta.

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yes thats a very good comparison of the two!!! they are both only 12 eps (if i remember wbk correctly) so not long watches at all but it just depends on if you’re preferring story or action.

and honestly i completely forgot langa was canadian LMFAO thats such a good character trait for him 😭 also i love when animes hand us a very obviously japanese native level fluent VA and are like. they’re from canada. suspension of disbelief is key

interesting take tho!! you’re right i know nothing about canada but i like your thought process!! itd be kinda sexy tho if he was from qbc and could speak french too……..

[wandario]

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Perfect Conditions for Nature Lovers

Summer in Canada brings clear skies, mild temperatures, and long evenings—perfect for everything from kayaking across the magnificent rivers of Quebec to mountain climbs in Alberta. Summer provides ideal conditions for guests regardless of their chosen road trips, camping, or city strolls.

Tip from Wandario: Bring comfy clothes and sunblock. Though Canada's summers are moderate, the sun may be strong—especially in the highlands.

2. Thrilling Summer Festivals & Events

Celebrations, concerts, and cultural events are prevalent in Canada this summer, which will help American visitors experience the dynamic character of the country. Whether your interests lie in food, music, or outdoor activities, Canada has plenty to offer.

Jazz Festival: The largest jazz festival worldwide, Montreal Jazz Festival (June–July), presents outstanding musicians from all over.

July Calgary Stampede: Discover Western culture and Canada's renowned rodeo. 

Toronto Caribbean Carnival (August): Discover Caribbean cuisine right here among colourful parades and costumes.

Shakespeare Festival: Among the best theatre events in North America, Stratford's Shakespeare Festival runs from June through October.

Tip from Wandario: Book lodging early; prominent towns such as Montreal, Toronto, and Calgary witness a flood of people during festival season!

3. National Parks & Wildlife Watching 

Canada has outstanding national parks; consequently, summer is the perfect season for individuals who like animals. Those who like the natural world will find a fascinating season as bears, moose, whales, and eagles are more active.

See in British Columbia and Newfoundland orcas, humpback whales, and belugas.

Black and grizzly bears prowl freely in British Columbian forests.

Seeing various species in their native habitats is what birdwatching in Ontario and Quebec offers.

Tip from Wandario: Go on a guided wildlife trip for the greatest opportunity to observe animals in their native habitat while staying safe.

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Canada's main cities come alive in the summer, with street markets, rooftop terraces, and energetic waterfronts for visitors who like city life. One may easily find something to do!

Tip from Wandario: Many Canadian towns have pedestrian-only streets during the summer, which makes open-air restaurants and strolling tours ideal.

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Many American visitors cross the border, particularly to locations such as Niagara Falls, Montreal, and British Columbia, and drive a road trip-friendly automobile.

There is no language barrier; English is spoken everywhere; French in Quebec adds a distinctive cultural experience.

American visitors will find favourable exchange rates; most locations take U.S. credit cards.

Tip from Wandario: Before you schedule your travel, make sure your passport is current! For certain visitors, they would additionally need an eTA (electronic travel authorisation).

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[kassdays]

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[deathbypunches]

Deathbypunches is now a botanical blog

The challenge of invasive plants is difficult to overstate in the 21st century. The native plant communities are in peril, and the selective forces have been modified beyond the scope of these communities ability to respond. Further - plants create their own chemical environments and microclimates through their growth habit, and create an ecosystem of animals around them. When an invasive plant is in a habitat, it changes the course of succession, modifies opportunities, or outright removes opportunities. The context that a native plant evolved in may no longer exist. Early successional plants are adapted to bare mineral soil in full sun (usually). When the soil is disturbed by tilling or bulldozing, they get in! Henbane, kochia, lamb's quarters, etc. Invasive perennials often are adapted to being mowed or grazed and survive with a perennial rootstock. Thistles, dandelion, alfalfa. They usually have to be able to compete with grasses. Mowing is an interesting selective pressure because the only constraint is the plant's ability to recover from it - thorns, taste, and poison are irrelevant. In Southern Alberta at least, many of the native prairie plants do not grow very tall and the short grass habitat is easily replaced by larger fast growing alien species that have no predators. When the grassland is tall, short growing plants can have a difficult time getting established even if soil conditions are right. The question remains: "What then shall we do?" Changing our attitude towards land management and plants in general would help a lot. Avoid disturbing the communities- bulldozing, mowing, excluding browsers or predators, pesticides, herbicides. All of these pressures can select for invasive plants that specifically follow human disturbances around because they have adapted to such pressures. Human disturbance often specifically removes the plants that compete with invasive species. Education would be a good start. Most people couldn't even name 5 native prairie flowers. Valuing native prairie habitat would be incredible- but half the time, the person in the boardroom has no context of the value of the plant community they are approving destroying. There is a decent chance they have never been to the site! So long as the economic system is only able to value short term increases in CURRENCY, the pressure to develop will always win. So long as the attitude is one of domination and control, there will be no harmony with nature.

[albertatrucktraining]

The Benefits of Learning Defensive Driving Techniques.

As we know in this era driving is very common for everyone even teenagers also do drive without having a driving license. Some teenagers also do drink and drive and due to this thing in this era, the accident rate is increasing day by day which is not good. Parents are also not stopping their children from driving, by this thing they are not putting their lives in risk they are putting other people’s lives at risk also on the road. In this I want to tell you that as I already said you in driving there is to much risk in driving. So, in this, we will tell you some benefits of learning defensive driving techniques.

Well, there are several benefits of it like,

Active Driving.

In this, I want to tell you that as we know how it is important to be active while driving otherwise by this this thing it will cause accidents.

Awareness of Your Surroundings.

In this, I want to tell you that as we know how important it is to look at each and everything. As we know while driving on the road there are different type of boards are available and, on those boards, different types of signs are made make sure you see them very carefully While you’re on the road, make sure to keep your eyes peeled. As we know that while driving you have to see all sides you cant focus on one side you have to look at all direction.

The traffic in front of you

The road ahead of you

The traffic behind you

And the roads on either side of yours may have vehicles approaching from those directions.

Improves your driving skills.

in this i want to tell you that if you follow each and every rule properly then your driving skill will also get improved. You get a greater understanding of the rules of the road, and you will know how to drive in a safe manner.

Accident-free techniques.

well as we know that while driving on highway or it is night drving some of person get scare they get panic at some time . The key to a good defensive driving strategy is knowing how to avoid unprepared crashes and recognize potential dangers before it is too late.

Proper Spacing

Proper spacing is the most important defensive driving technique. You should never be too close to the car ahead of you and always have enough space between your vehicle and any other cars on the road.

The recommended safe following distance varies based on traffic conditions, but 15 seconds behind a slower driver (or 10-12 seconds if it’s raining) is a good guideline for beginners.

Anticipating Hazards.

Animals on the road. If a deer steps into the middle of your lane, it can cause an accident that results in serious injury or death. Also, watch for squirrels and other small animals that hide under bridges and overpasses because they’re used to being hunted by motor vehicles on their native land.

These paths are often too narrow for cars to pass safely with pedestrian’s present—so anticipate them before they become a risk.

Defensive Driving Training gives confidence.

As I have already told you that driving is not safe in this different type of difficulty comes but if you are a professional driver training in alberta then in training you have already done defensive training, they trained you for this. So that while having any type of difficulty you will not face any of these problems.

Observe & Pay attention to the surroundings

Predict & evaluate situations before they happen.

Evaluate the situation before taking actions

React to the situation at hand by taking appropriate actions to avoid collisions or accidents

Evaluate the results of the driving and take action to improve.

Defensive Driving helps to reduce traffic violations.

As we know that in this era, there are various defensive driving course which you can use it and by this you can reduce the chances of doing traffic violation while also avoiding fine and penalties as well. in this i also want to tell you that driver should know each and everthing about rules and regulation, driving safety, roads rules like speed limit to avoid accident.

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East Alberta: Elk Island and Drumheller

Before heading back to the Prairies, there were two more things I was excited about to explore in Alberta; Elk Island national park and Drumheller.

Elk Island was the first location where bison were reintroduced in Canada (after they had all been killed to force natives to live on reserves 😵); 20-30 animals that were brought from Montana where farmers had kept the last bison alive to prevent them going extinct... since then, the herd at Elk Island has grown so successfully that they've been translocated to other parks like Grasslands & Waterton where I've seen the majestic animals 🤗!  Grasslands' herd is also a "bison exporter" to amongst others Indigenous communities so that they can rebuild their cultural ties to the animal, hence this is really a very successful conservation story! 🤩 Elk Island being the place where it all started, I had been excited to see bison here but no luck; on a 30-degree day they were hiding in the forest, I would too!

The lake stank of algae so I ended up going for a small hike, which according to the description would pass by some beaver dams & have a bit of steep terrain to a view of the rolling hills... I'm quite certain that I did do that hike, but I didn't encounter any of those 🥴 😅 and instead had a flat trail without any notable viewpoint nor dams... not sure where the disconnect was but disappointed by the park - probably it's more interesting in fall.

This meant that I had plenty of time to drive down to Drumheller where the famous Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology is located... I had initially thought of skipping it but as I now have spare time after cutting my BC travels short, I thought why not!

This drive was probably the straightest route I've ever driven.... apart from a few bends it was dead straight for kilometers on end, making it difficult to stay focused! I did have a true Canadian train passing by, where 200 wagons later you're finally allowed to cross the tracks. 😝 About 20 km north of Drumheller, the scenery changed abruptly from rolling green hills to yellow flat grasslands (including the return of nodding oil donkeys), until I drove down into the river valley and the badlands appeared.

First thing I saw when driving into town was the largest T Rex in the world together with his smaller child/cousin/other dino?? (I'm not really versed in the world of dinosaurs 😅) so couldn't avoid taking a selfie for my nephews whose world revolves around the creatures 😍.

Check-in at the airbnb was a breeze so showed up at the museum at 6.30pm which was perfect as the masses started to leave. I must say that I was at first a bit apprehensive about visiting, as I'm not that much into dinos but I was truly blown away!! 🤩 Yes, they feature extensively but the fossils that are displayed are extraordinary, and beyond that, the exhibit explains the story of evolution and life on earth in an easy-to-understand & attractive way, a great recap of my ecology course! In 2 hours, I probably skipped a third, not because it wasn't interesting but because I was really getting hungry. 🙃 Below are just a few impressions, this one got added to my favourites of this trip!  😍

Outside, the sun was setting over the badlands so they would have to wait until the next day... first order of business was to get some chips, veggies & dips and sit on the microbrewery's patio embracing the desert-like evening heat 😊... which I would hate a few hours later in a stuffed room where the airco was too loud to run. 😒

In the morning, it was decidedly cooler and cloudy, which was a welcome change after the last few hot days! Just south of the village, there's some imposing hoodoos that are still standing (despite children running & climbing everywhere 😮). After that it was one more look at the badlands (which is not my favourite landform, but prettier in contrast with the valley's green) and a derelict grain elevator, before driving east out of Alberta.

Wildlife: 1 gopher at Drumheller

SUPs: none

Hikes: one at Elk Island

[mariacallous]

When Jay Bulckaert answered his phone, he was standing in a fire break clearing brush in Kam Lake, just outside of Yellowknife, the capital city of Canada’s Northwest Territories. Just miles away, a massive wildfire is stalking the city and threatening to move closer as the winds shift. Thousands of people have left Yellowknife since an evacuation order was announced Wednesday evening. Not Bulckaert, though, nor the other volunteers who showed up Friday morning to do whatever they could to stop the fire from razing the city of 20,000. “It’s all hands on deck,” he says.

They divvied up tasks as soon as they met up Friday. Doing admin work, driving buses and tractors, operating chain saws, feeding the crew—everyone brings something to the table. “Right now we’re clearing brush. Probably next we’ll be moving sprinklers. We’re just a rag-tag crew of locals that showed up here and volunteered to help the effort. We’re going to do whatever they ask us to do,” says Bulckaert, who normally works as a filmmaker.

Bulckaert doesn’t plan to leave, and won’t until officials force him to. He’s part of Yellowknife’s last line of defense. “This is my town,” he says. “I’m here until the bitter end.”

Yellowknife is in the southern portion of the Northwest Territories, sitting on the shore of Great Slave Lake, the deepest in North America and the world’s tenth largest by area. It is named for people of the Dene First Nation, a group of Indigenous peoples who together represent 28 percent of the territory’s population.

The city is surrounded by boreal forest, the world’s largest intact forest ecosystem, stretching from the tip of Newfoundland and Labrador in the east to Alaska in the west. In the part within the Northwest Territories, a collection of conifers—spruce, firs, pines—and other native plants are home to hundreds of species of wild animals, including bears, bison, beavers, wolves, ravens, and porcupines. At night, it’s not uncommon to see the Northern Lights dance across the treetops.

Two million hectares—more than 8,200 square miles—of this pristine wilderness has burned since May, in what is now the worst year on record for forest fires across Canada. More than 1,000 wildfires are currently burning across the country. This season, a total of 5,767 fires have been recorded. Together, they’ve burned 14 million hectares, an area roughly the size of the US state of Alabama, or the total area of Greece.

The Northwest Territories alone have 236 active fires right now. The one closest to Yellowknife—the territory’s only real city—is named ZF015. That fire, along with another closer to Ingraham Trail, a local highway, have “encircled” the city in flames, says territory information officer Mike Westwick. Across the North Slave region, thousands of people have been forced from their homes and into evacuation centers, strangers’ spare bedrooms, and camping trailers across Alberta, the closest province to the south of the territory.

On the phone from a rest stop in Grand Prairie, Alberta, nearly 1,200 kilometers from Yellowknife, recent high school graduate Naledi Ndlovu describes her family’s drive out of the city.

On Wednesday evening, they left the city in a convoy of three cars, just before the formal evacuation was ordered. Ndlovu says smoke and fire laced the edges of Highway 3, the only road out of town. Frantic wildlife, including bears, ran alongside the road, while others lay dead on the shoulder, having not been able to escape.

Ndlovu’s father gripped the steering wheel as the sun set and the sky darkened. The highway was packed with scared, frustrated drivers weaving from exhaustion through an endless haze of smoke. “At some point it got so smoky that we couldn’t see the cars in front of us,” Ndlovu says. “People were just panicking during that drive. People are trying to make it to the safety area as fast as they can—overtaking other people really fast.”

Along the way, the family’s Toyota Tundra pickup got rear-ended—not the only accident as people rushed to overtake others on the undivided highway. Then, a tire blew. When they got out to examine the truck, they discovered that all four of their rubber tires had deformed due to the heat of the road.

Ndlovu’s family will have to get a new set of tires before continuing to Calgary, another seven hours’ drive south.

Yellowknife is not the only community in the region under an evacuation order. The Dene communities of N’dilo, Dettah, and Kakisa were told to leave over the past week, as have the people of Hay River, Enterprise, Fort Smith, K’atlodeeche First Nation, and a handful of other towns.

Garth Carman left his Hay River home on Sunday afternoon, just as the evacuation order was issued for the town.

He and wife Linda had taken in five cats from people in Fort Smith when their evacuation order came in the day before. He loaded the cats into his new Jeep—along with his own three cats—and hit the road, with Linda following behind in her Subaru Legacy station wagon. As they made their way three hours east to Fort Resolution, a wave of flames rolled over the highway. Trees exploded. “Boom, boom, boom. They were coming towards us faster than you can run,” he says. “Instantly the air got super hot and humid, like looking into a kettle of boiling water.”

Trucks and trailers careened as they spun around to escape. In the chaos Carman lost track of his wife. Poor cell service and even worse internet connectivity made it impossible to find her. Only when he saw her Subaru in the Hay River airport parking lot did he learn she’d been sent to Alberta. Reunited since midweek at a friend’s house near the town of Valleyview, the pair are now taking care of 16 cats.

Back in Hay River, Ginger Murphy reckons a fifth of the town’s population, roughly 500 people, stayed behind despite the order to leave.

Each day since the town was evacuated, Murphy has woken by 8 am, grabbed a coffee, and checked in on people’s loved ones and pets. Once everyone has been accounted for, she heads over to Enterprise to look for the missing pets that displaced owners are fretting over. That town, about a half-hour drive south from Hay River, is about 90 percent destroyed, save for a handful of homes and city buildings. “Enterprise looks really bad,” she says. “A lot of it got burned.”

More than half of the Northwest Territories’ 45,000 people left their homes this month because of the threat of fire, and that number will only increase as more people heed the warnings of Yellowknife officials.

According to local officials, just over 5,100 vehicles have crossed over the Deh Cho bridge, which crosses the Mackenzie River about 300 kilometers south of Yellowknife. Another 1,500 people left Yellowknife by plane on Thursday, and near-hourly flights on military, charter, and commercial planes on Friday had room for 2,000 more. Airlines are asking people to crate their animals. It’s a lot to ask for many Yellowknifers, who tend to let their cats live a cage-free existence.

One of them is Theo, a handsome gray tabby with jade-colored eyes. As people left Yellowknife en masse, Megan Cooper, Theo’s owner, spent most of the week desperately trying to get back home to rescue him and her pup, Dandelion.

She’d been on vacation in Europe, but hadn’t been having a great time the past few days. Instead, she was glued to her phone, barely sleeping and desperately scrolling for information about the fires, about a possible evacuation, about how to get her pets to safety. Online, rumors swirled about the fire and what the city was doing about it, adding to the stress. She was wracked with guilt, unsure Theo would come if a stranger called him out of the brush.

She decided to hop on a high-speed train from Amsterdam to Paris and then board a nine-hour flight to Calgary, with every intention of making it back home to Yellowknife in time to pack her animals up in her van and head south. By the time she landed in Alberta, a friend of a friend—a total stranger—had lured Theo out by shaking a package of cat treats. Cooper will soon travel to Edmonton to be reunited with her pets who, at the time of writing, are en route to the city.

Cooper is trying to remain optimistic by reminding herself of the collective resilience of Yellowknife. The community is one stitched together by a mutual love for nature, adventure, and isolation. “It’s a capital city with people from wildly different backgrounds—a relatively large immigrant population, a mining town, a community on traditional Dene territory, and a hub for the Western Arctic,” she says. “Yellowknifers love being out on the land and are especially self-sufficient and capable people who trade easy access to some modern conveniences for the freedom and adventure that offers,” she says.

On the outskirts of Yellowknife, the city and private entrepreneurs have installed massive fuel breaks measuring 100 meters by 15,000 meters in efforts to stop the fire in its tracks. Firefighters from across Canada and from as far away as South Africa are working to suppress the fires closest to population centers. Ignition operations—setting intentional fires to eliminate fuel sources—have also been deployed alongside a maze of sprinklers and a coating of fire retardant.

The community and its allies are working shoulder to shoulder to save Yellowknife as the fire inches closer. It’s likely to hit the edge of the city this weekend if the weather continues to be uncooperative.

“The idea of it burning down is devastating,” says Cooper. “Nowhere can replace it.”