NATURAL DISASTERS
Ravaged by the drought
Prairie farm families brace themselves for another dry season
Photography and text by Dawn Goss

ECOLOGY
Overdrawn at the water bank
Has agriculture made the Prairies more vulnerable to drought?
By Trevor Herriot

CONSERVATION
Caribou at the abyss
The peak thrills of powderhounds and snowmobilers may be driving mountain caribou to extinction
By Brian Payton with photography by Patrice Halley

PROFILE
Smog sleuth
One of Canada’s leading ecologists investigates what Toronto’s bad air is doing to communities downwind
By Marci McDonald

RE:SOURCES
Eco-audit
A portrait in words and pictures of energy production, transportation and conservation
Photographs by Edward Burtynsky with research by Jodi Di Menna

HEALTH
New toxin in the food chain
The chemical used as a fire retardant in everything from computers to foam matresses may be as hazardous as PCBs
By Anita Lahey

WILDLIFE
Great horned brood
Nesting season with a pair of protective owl parents
Photography by Wayne Lynch

The Inside Story
News from The Royal Canadian Geographical Society

Editor’s notebook
Mass movement

Reverberations
Park evictees, Scrip fraud, Mad as a B.C. astronomer, Great-grandpa’s great adventure, Dreams of our own, That’s my house!

Discovery
Orphan mines, Ethical bioprospecting, Boreal boycott, Nature's capital, Ocean plumbing, Cormorant cull, Airport runoff, Mutant mice, Suing city hall

À la carte
Canada dry

Reviews
Canadian Geographic’s top picks on wildlife and the environment, Recipe for disaster, Winter survivors

On the horizon
Blazebusters

Mosaic
Riding the Wind

In habitat
Dawson breakup by Johnny Caribou