Larry Powell Powell is a veteran, award-winning journalist based in Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Canada. He specialize in stories about agriculture and the environment. For decades, he worked for broadcast outlets in all four provinces in western Canada. This included a 5 years stint as Senior Editor for CBC Radio News in Saskatchewan. He is authorized to receive embargoed news releases on important, global stories, through the Science Media Centre of Canada, the Royal Society, Nature Research and the World Weather Attribution Network. He's a member of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, the Canadian Association of Journalists and a past member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In 2020, Powell joined an international team of writers providing articles for the Swiss-based online journal, Focusing on Wildlife - celebrating the biodiversity of Planet Earth. In June, 2014, he was a panelist at a world conference in Winnipeg entitled Holding
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All successful dances involve a succession of repetition and variation of step and direction.
I am from the East Escarpment of Riding Mountain, and own lands that were pristine until the concept of public entry dismissed the constitutional right of ownership. Generations of protection and preservation have now left staged damages, dead zones, ripped riparian zones.
Trails became a nightmare.
What has always been viewed from above, bears in streams, eagles soaring became a playground for trail enthusiasts. The world of the Creator became dominated by streams of those all seeking simultaneously to view what had been interrupted.
The article sans ski is offensive. The Agassiz ski hill area is presently being damaged due to a lack of controls. There is no mention of people. No mention of communities. No mention of history and tradition. No mention of economy, no mention of other ski hills in other National Parks. It is an isolated, self serving, commentary.