NEW: Introducing the Robert Bateman Centre for art and environmental education at Royal Roads University http://www.batemancentre.ca/. In October 2009 to August of 2010, most recent exhibition at State Russia Museum, St. Petersburg and three other Russian art museums: Ivanovo, Tula and at the Tsarystyno Palace in Moscow. (See also: a summer of 2010 peat bog fires, "created by draining swamps, which supplied the fuel for power stations.")

Gem Trek Publishing "Maps for the Mountains" http://www.gemtrek.com/ waterproof and tear-resistant paper for hikers, relief shading with contour lines, easy to read, trail guides

The League of Canadian Poets http://www.poets.ca/ (poetry spoken here)

Rocky Mountain Books http://www.rmbooks.com/   climbing, hiking, biking, paddling, caving, skiing, wilderness skills, mountain stories and people, western history, travel guides, maps

ENDURING ...FAVES! - MUSIC & PHOTOGRAPHY...
Great Lakes Swimmers http://www.greatlakeswimmers.com/
Scott Mutter's surrational thesis http://www.photographymuseum.com/mutter/scottmutterNewGallery.html

To create an Okanagan Similkameen National Park! read more about it: http://wildernesscommittee.org/what_we_do/protecting_wild_lands/okanagan_national_park

Alberta Treaties - First Nations
http://www.treaty6.ca/,   http://www.treaty7.org/,  http://www.treaty8.ca/

All About Crocuses. Date "crocus" was first used: 14th century. Etymology: Crocus \Cro"cus\ (kr[=o]"k[u^]s), noun. [Latin, saffron, from Greek kro`kos; compare to Heb. kark[=o]m, Arabic kurkum, Sanskrit ku[.n]kuma.].
http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/CR/CROCUS.html

Ancient sea bed. http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=time_space&sectionnav=period&period_id=18