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Traveler Profile: Jennifer Bain

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November 17, 2021

Jennifer Bain at Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba.

Editor's note: The National Parks Traveler has operated with only one full-time staffer since its inception, but has a core team of freelance writers, photographers, broadcasters, and sound recording engineers that are relied upon heavily to provide content. They're being introduced to you in a series of short profiles.

Jennifer Bain

Based in Toronto, Jennifer is the Traveler's Canada editor. She is an award-winning journalist and author who gravitates to cold climates and has proudly visited all 10 provinces and three territories. She spent 18 years running the food and travel sections at the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest newspaper, before leaving in 2018 to earn a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction and launch a freelance travel writing career. Along the way, she has written 111 Places in Calgary That You Must Not Miss (2020), Buffalo Girl Cooks Bison (2014) and the Toronto Star Cookbook: More Than 150 Diverse & Delicious Recipes Celebrating Ontario (2013). Jennifer's award-winning travel stories have appeared in the Daily Beast, Atlas Obscura, CAA magazine, Canada.com (Postmedia's flagship website), Canadian Traveller, Explore magazine, Vacay.ca, GettingOnTravel.com, Canadian Geographic Travel, the Globe & Mail and others. 

Favorite park or "go-to park" :  Ivvavik National Park.

Favorite activity in the parks:  Hikes, horseback rides and dark sky viewing.

What the Traveler means to you:  The Traveler provides me with the opportunity to deeply examine parks/sites from visitor experiences and land-management issues up to conservation efforts and climate-change challenges. 

 

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Submitted by Eric Burr on November 23, 2021 - 1:35pm.

Thank you Jennifer for adding a Candian voice to the National Park Traveler.  As a retired seasonal national park ranger- naturalist, and helicopter ski guidein the states, but living just east of NOCA and next to the Pasayten Wilderness, bordering BC, I'm extremely aware of our cross border national park issues. The pending addition of a South Okanagan National Park is of special concern. Patagonia's Rick Ridgeway said it best when answering an NPR question about how best to mitigate over crowding, he replied: MORE PARKS!


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