“a full-throated memoir that asks — indeed, that seeks fervently to understand — how our species can live alongside wildlife, like the black bear, without exerting our dominance…But it is also a story about the oft-fraught business of living together with humans, and of loving them.”

Book 195: Black Bear by @trinamoyles.bsky.social

Growing up as a teenage girl in northern Alberta, @trinamoyles.bsky.social learned to live with bears — and to navigate the hard-living culture of a resource-dependent town. Here's an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, which dives into those lessons: thenarwhal.ca/trina-moyles...

“Why did I want to write about bears? Maybe because it’s easier to write about our relationship to bears—and the big emotions they provoke in us—fear, awe, revelation, hate—than it is to confront our own human relationships, far more fraught with risk, harm, and pain.”

An excerpt from @trinamoyles.bsky.social forthcoming book BLACK BEAR -- it starts: "My dad was known as “the bear guy” in Peace River." I loved this book. It's out Jan 6. thenarwhal.ca/trina-moyles... #naturewriting #bears #booksky

@trinamoyles.bsky.social wrote on this issue for us in March. albertaviews.ca/problem-griz...

I wrote an essay as long as the Dempster Highway about caribou hunting, managing anxiety, following grizzly trails, and looking for connection in these difficult times…https://www.trinamoyles.com/field-notes/dispatches-from-the-dempster

Our feature for The Narwhal on how climate change is impacting the Porcupine caribou herd, biologists’ race to count their dwindling numbers, and First Nation communities who are on the frontlines of experiencing their decline. Photos by Peter Mather thenarwhal.ca/counting-por...

The Porcupine caribou herd travels more than 4,000 kilometres across the Arctic each year. But its migration is imperilled by climate change and oil and gas expansion. Scientists are rushing to count the animals amid the threat. @trinamoyles.bsky.social reports: thenarwhal.ca/counting-por...

To quote Calgary-based author, Kit Dobson, “It is my profound hope that Canadians are taking note of the censorious wave that is spreading across North America, and how this wave has descended with force upon Alberta.” Find his op-ed in the Globe. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

one of the most revealing arguments I've seen on this issue is from people who say they would not mind if the park is closed — as long as the First Nations are also prohibited from accessing their homelands, medicines and traditional foods

Have you picked up Miriam Towes new memoir yet? 5 pages in and I’m already awestruck. As a survivor of sibling suicide, I feel her prose, deeply.

This is a tough but important read. CW, and the below is a gift link.

Interesting, as always, read by @anthrodish.bsky.social on masculinity in so-called “ancestral eating” practices. I feel like trophy hunting culture taps into this dynamic, as well.

Aardvark Burrows Could be Ground Zero for the Next Pandemic Animals of all kinds mix and mingle in underground burrows, offering troubling opportunities for diseases to jump species. by @judeisabella.bsky.social www.biographic.com/aardvark-bur...

Feisty one! Moth larvae have been seen everywhere in the Whitehorse area over the past few weeks. This one is a bedstraw hawk moth caterpillar. The spiky “horn” acts as a defence mechanism, though it’s actually soft and fleshy. This one was returned safely to the bush after a brief meet and greet.

this shy critter appeared on our doorstep last night! advanced reader’s copies are out! pls get in touch if you’d like to review 💚 will be published in Jan 2026 with Knopf Canada and Pegasus Books in the U.S.

Trump’s push for Arctic drilling heralds the next chapter in a decades-long fight to protect caribou. What does that look like in Old Crow, Yukon — a tiny fly-in community north of the Arctic Circle? Find out in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-o...

A good story about current and historical fire activity in Canada (and the US) though I may be biased thetradeoff.substack.com/p/north-amer...

Hello! My name is Trina Moyles and I’m a writer, journalist, and author of non-fiction books. My work is inspired by people’s relationships with land, wildlife, wildfire ecology, and climate change. Check out my writing at www.trinamoyles.com and get in touch if you’d like to collaborate 🦋

Field notes from our travels to Old Crow, Yukon, to learn about how U.S. politics is threatening food security & cultural identity in Gwich’in communities across the border. Photography by Atsushi Sugimoto and Michael Code.

For decades, Gwich’in on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border have worked together to defend the herd and lobby U.S. policymakers against drilling. Now, they’re vowing to do it again. An emergency meeting to explore options is scheduled in Alaska on Sept. 4, 2025. (5/6)

This year, Caribou Days’ festive atmosphere gave way to sober discussions of new threats facing the herd. U.S. president Donald Trump has ordered increased oil and gas drilling in its Alaskan calving grounds, which the Gwich’in — and Western science — say would be devastating to the herd. (4/6)

Each spring, Gwich’in people celebrate their bond with the caribou during Vadzaih Choo Drin, or “Big Caribou Days,” in Old Crow, Yukon. Hundreds of people attend from across the North for games and festivities as the herd’s migration passes through Old Crow. (3/6)

For thousands of years, the Gwich’in in Yukon and Alaska have lived alongside the Porcupine caribou herd, whose approximately 200,000 animals migrate through Gwich’in territory every spring and fall. (2/6)

In Old Crow, Yukon, the Gwich’in people are organizing to resist U.S. president Donald Trump’s oil and gas ambitions in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — a biodiverse region providing crucial habitat for one of the last healthy caribou herds in North America. thenarwhal.ca/yukon-old-cr... (1/6)