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July/August 2003 issue	IN THIS ISSUE: Table of Contents Feature: Boreal Firefighters The Inside Story Editor's Notebook Reverberations À la carte Mosaic Re:Sources

For a basic guide to forest fires and fire ecology, check out Wildfire: A Reader, edited by Alianor True (Island Press, 2001). Hot spots for watching wildfires are listed in Mike Potter's book Fire Lookout Hikes in the Canadian Rockies (Luminous Compositions, 1998). Find out more about fire behaviour and ecology and fires as a natural disturbance at the Natural Resources Canada website. For wildfire-prevention strategies, go to Partners in Protection and download the manual FireSmart: Protecting Your Community From Wildfire.

For a virtual look at Clarence Tillenius's paintings and dioramas, click on www.wilds.mb.ca/tillenius. Or to explore this great Canadian artist's life further, pick up Tillenius, with an introduction and artwork by Tillenius himself (Trails of the Interlake Studio, 1998).

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For the latest on the Stampede, check out www.calgarystampede.com. Surf to www.rodeocanada.com for information about Canada's professional rodeo circuit. The Canadian Rodeo Book by Claire Eamer (Western Producer Prairie Books, 1982) is another great source for tips on the rodeo life. History buffs will enjoy A Brand of its Own: The 100 Year History of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede by James H. Gray (Western Producer Prairie Books, 1985). Cowgirls by Candace Savage (Ten Speed Press, 1996) surveys the women of the Wild West.

For links to the Franklin mystery, cruise through The Fate of Franklin . To experience the voyage first-hand, read Franklin's journal entries in Journey to the Polar Sea (Konemann 1998). For a fictionalized account of the expedition, pick up John Wilson's North With Franklin: The Lost Journals of James Fitzjames (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1999). For an Inuit perspective on the lost ships, read David Woodman's two books, Strangers Among Us (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995) and Unravelling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit testimony (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991).

Learn about Health Canada's surveillance of West Nile virus this summer, and find links to provincial websites at Health Canada. Buzz over to Mosquito.org to see how mosquitoes carry disease.

Compiled by Michael Bhardwaj

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