Time: Nov. 6, 2024 at 7 p.m.
Location: AWA Office: 455 – 12 St. NW Calgary, AB T2N 1Y9
Price: By Donation

Join Alberta Wilderness Association for an evening talk with long-time biologist Lorne Fitch as he launches his new book, Travels Up the Creek: A Biologist’s Search for a Paddle.

His new collection of essays will engage readers, inspire change, raise awareness, nurture empathy, and reshape perspectives on environmental stewardship towards a sustainable future.

About the author:

Lorne Fitch has been a biologist for over 50 years. He has criss-crossed the province, learned the landscape, investigated fish and wildlife populations, and engaged with ranchers, farmers, industry, and bureaucrats over conservation. His insights are the result of much scar tissue. Lorne is a professional biologist, a retired provincial fish and wildlife scientist, and a former adjunct professor at the University of Calgary. He is also the co-founder of the riparian stewardship initiative called Cows and Fish. For his work on conservation he has been part of three Alberta Emerald awards, an Alberta Order of the Bighorn Award, and a Canadian Environmental Gold Award, with additional recognition from the Wildlife Society, the Society for Range Management, the Alberta Society of Professional Biologists, the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and the Alberta Wilderness Association. His last previously published a book is Streams of Consequence: Dispatches from the Conservation World. Lorne lives in Lethbridge, Alberta.

Review of Travels Up the Creek

“A must-read for those yearning for pleasing responsibility and a chance maybe to breathe in a rare fog in a grassland setting and see for a fleeting moment a herd of antelope before the animals are swallowed back up in the mist. So many lovely anecdotes like this. Not to be missed.”
—Edward Struzik, award-winning author