HARVESTS
Mussel bound
In a perilous winter ritual, Inuit in a northern Quebec village tunnel through the sea ice for a tasty shellfish harvest
Photos by Patrice Halley with text by Augusta Dwyer

SPECIAL REPORT: CLIMATE CHANGE PART I
Warming signals in the Mackenzie Basin
Landslides, forest fires, floods — Canada's climate hot spot is revealing how global warming changes the landscape
By Taras Grescoe

CLIMATE CHANGE PART II
The view from Hare
Sixteen years after he demystified global warming for Canadian Geographic readers, an eminent Canadian scientist revisits the issue
By F. Kenneth Hare

PICTORIAL
Jagged edges
Bursts of colour and light emerge from the shadows of Yukon's ragged and rocky Tombstone Range
By Pat and Baiba Morrow

WORK AND THE WOODS
Wood choppers and helicopters
Plucking logs by air from B.C.'s forests requires the precision of a surgeon
By Larry Pynn with photos by Bob Herger

Society News
Geo-Olympians, Geography takes you places, Fraser Lectures: Dogrib traditions

Editor's notebook
Under ice with the mussel pickers

Write to Know
Gold diggers' rights

Geowatch
Nunavut's flag-raising, Trout polluters, Spinning straw into paper, Jumbo ski struggle, 'Smart' sensors, Flying lessons for cranes

GeoMap (À la carte)
What causes ice ages?

Our Home and Native Tongue
Quebec's imaginative summer of naming

Imaginary landscape
Icefields by Thomas Wharton

Final Frame
Mallards on the move

A Sense of Place
Hamilton's Iroquois Bar