One person has died after a single vehicle rollover near Maligne Lake.
On July 14 at 10:30 p.m., Jasper RCMP received a report of a missing 36-year-old female from Jasper, who had not reported for work.
This was considered out of character and there was concern for her wellbeing.
While police worked to located the missing female, around 10 a.m. the next day, they received a report of a damaged vehicle a distance off Maligne Lake Road between Medicine Lake and Maligne Lake.
Upon arrival, police located a vehicle, which appeared to have been in a single vehicle rollover that ended with it on fire.
EDMONTON Parks Canada is keeping a close watch on the Icefields Parkway and Maligne Lake Road in Jasper National Park to monitor avalanche activity. Due to warming temperatures and spring like conditions, Parks Canada has already reported snow releases onto the roadway. In a release on Tuesday, Parks Canada says it will close the Icefields Parkway as early as noon on Tuesday through to Thursday night. The highway will be closed from Athabasca Falls to the Saskatchewan River Crossing to allow for extensive avalanche control work. According to the release, the day-use area at Athabasca Falls will remain accessible but travel during the early morning or late evening is recommended during the spring melt.
Portion of Icefields Parkway to be closed until Thursday Posted by: fitzhugh Posted date:
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An image of the Icefields Parkway in Jasper National Park. | File photo
Joanne McQuarrie, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter | reporter@fitzhugh.ca
As early as noon today, Parks Canada is closing the Icefields Parkway through to the evening of March 18 to allow for extensive avalanche control work.
The highway will be closed from Athabasca Falls to Saskatchewan River Crossing. The day-use area at Athabasca Falls will remain accessible.
“We find it more effective when we close the whole section,” said Steve Young, spokesperson for Jasper National Park.
Health Canada, under Patty Hajdu, in March 2020 re-authorized poisoning wolves with strychnine.
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Big Bad Wolf blamed for habitat loss due to global warming
EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada––Again this Christmas season, Alberta Environment & Parks will welcome Santa’s reindeer by setting out strychnine.
The strychnine will be not for Santa, nor for the reindeer, the North American variety of whom are called caribou, but rather for the Big Bad Wolf, as part of a wildlife management strategy bizarrely mixing up fairy tales.
Tangling the myths of Little Red Riding Hood and Santa Claus in story-telling before the blazing Yule log might inspire not visions of sugar-plums dancing in children’s heads but rather a