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July/August 2009 issue	In this issue Table of Contents Feature: St. Lawrence Seaway Feature: Park wardens Feature: Summer camps Feature: Iqaluit arts The Inside Story Editor’s Notebook Reverberations À la carte

On a snowy day in late March, warden Mike Wesbrook and I are driving up the Maligne Valley road in Jasper National Park. It’s a 45-minute trip along a winding asphalt road sandwiched between two glorious white-draped mountain ranges. In recent years, this has been as good a place as any in Western Canada to see wolves hunting or feeding on a freshly killed carcass. The only sign of wildlife we see today, however, is a herd of elk that someone, a shutterbug perhaps, has lured close to the road using a bundle of carrots.

Farther up the road, the Maligne River is in full force, gushing glacial meltwater into the crater of Medicine Lake. Along the cliffside that straddles this long, narrow body of water, Wesbrook brings the truck to a stop and pulls out his binoculars. He scans the precipitous peaks of the Opal Hills on one side of the lake and the Bald Hills on the other to see whether there are any fractures in the snowpack that could result in an avalanche. It is calm and sunny down here, but up high, a powerful wind sends plumes of spindrift sailing horizontally from one peak to another.

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