Pertains to: climate change, archeological sites including Indian Pit Houses at the Banff Springs Hotel golf course, Indian tools uncovered at Ya Ha Tinda Ranch,pictographs at Grotto Canyon, and sacred Indian medicine and rites
Pertains to recreational users and developers and their impact on the environment: Interview with Hans Gmoser in the Bugaboos on the advent of helicopter skiing; Tony Parisi in Valemount B.C. on snowmobiling; David Schindler on detrimental effects of tourism on the water supply; Chief Sophie Pierre at St. Eugene Mission resort on the perceived "right" of users to the back country; Kevin van Tiegham and the issue of development outside National Parks boundary areas; Park Wardens Scott Ward and Ross Heatherington re: managing on the ecosystem as a whole rather than specifically in a national park; Southern Alberta Land Trust and John Russell for the Nature Conservancy and the role of ranching lands acting as a buffer vs. the fragmentation and development of ranch land for acreages such as Jim Gardner's "Heaven on earth estates"