Writing about the outdoors, environment and the human experience

Land Acknowledgement

I, Don Meredith respectfully acknowledge that I live, write and conduct business on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Quw’utsun (Cowichan) First Nation of the Coast Salish Peoples. My family and I further acknowledge that the Quw’utsun People continue to live on these lands and care for them, and that their relationship with these lands existed thousands of years before the creation of Canada or British Columbia. We are learning much from First Nation Peoples about how to live in harmony with the land.

“Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight”

—Lovers in a Dangerous Time, Bruce Cockburn

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Surviving the 21st Century

This year certainly started off with a bang in terms of climate disasters with wildfires burning large portions of Los Angeles, destroying thousands of homes, businesses, valuable wildlands and displacing tens of thousands of people. The fires are the worst disaster in LA history. The catastrophe joins a long list of catastrophic wildfires that have occurred throughout California, Canada and much of the rest of the world over the last few years, all part of the larger global warming pattern that includes droughts and floods.

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As a wildlife biologist, I have worked in the Canadian High Arctic, the boreal forest of northern Alberta and the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Over the course of my work, I came to realize that in the long term good wildlife management was dependent on a concerned and informed public. The problem was that many biologists and wildlife managers were not communicating well with the people upon whom they depend to support their work. I decided to develop myself as a writer and learn effective communication techniques to explain the value and management of our natural resources to the people who make the ultimate, long-term decisions.

My passion and long career with wildlife and the outdoors has allowed me to write and present on the importance of wildlife and wild places and their impact on the well being of individuals and society as a whole.