PICTORIAL & POSTER
Nature’s cradle
Salty marshes, boreal bogs and soggy swamps: wetlands are the planet’s watery nurseries of life
By Dane Lanken and Elizabeth Shilts

WILDLIFE
Owl influx
A pictorial of cheerful fluff and menacing masses, and a poster guide to reading the clouds

HISTORY
Mattie sure shot
Alberta hosts a rare bird reunion
By Wayne Lynch

RESOURCES
Water works
Freshwater supplies are drying up in many countries, but Canadians still treat water like an unlimited resource
By Marq de Villiers

RESTORATION
Green city
How 30 years of grassroots determination is erasing Sudbury’s industrial gloom
By Graham Chandler

SCIENCE
On the lookout
Quebec’s Mont-Saint-Hilaire becomes a sentinel in a nationwide environmental early-warning network
By Ian Austen with photography by Francis Lépine

Inside CG
Behind the scenes at Canadian Geographic

Editor’s notebook
From swamp-ugly to wetland harmony

Reverberations
Risky business, Slide salvager, Utopian omission

GeoWatch
WWF goes to the mat, Will the nose know? Dam deconstruction

Curious by nature
Silencing the croakers

GeoMap
Canada’s smoggiest places

Reviews
Editor’s annual enviro-picks

Imaginary Landscape
The Projectionist by Michael Helm

A sense of place
Caught in Niagara’s currents by Catherine Gildiner

Bird’s-eye view
Falling for the falls