discovering canada
Grasslands National Park
Saskatchewan
The American author Wallace Stegner,
who wrote about the need to
preserve the West, portrayed the
Prairie landscape as “a distance
without limits, a horizon that did not bound
the world but only suggested endless space
beyond.” How truly fitting this description
is of Grasslands National Park, located in
southwestern Saskatchewan, just north of
the Montana border.
The Prairie grasslands of Canada became
one of the most endangered habitats in fewer
than 100 years; today, less than one-quarter of
Canada’s original mixed-grass Prairie remains
in its natural state. Grasslands National Park
was officially established in 2001 to preserve
one of the largest parcels of relatively undisturbed
mixed-grass Prairie in North America....
By Mike Grandmaison
Contributing Editor
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BIO
Following a 20 year career in the biological sciences, Mike Grandmaison shifted his
focus to become a full time professional photographer in 1996 devoting his time
more or less evenly between stock and assignment photography. He shoots for a
broad range of corporate and editorial clients, in fields ranging from agriculture to
architecture and from forest to factory. Mike' s passion for photography, particularly
his ability to capture the intimate details of thnatural world, has won him numerous
commissions from clients across Canada, the U.S. and Europe. His images have
been published worldwide by National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, Geo,
Audubon, Sierra, Ford, Loblaws, Canadian Gardening, Canada Post, Canadian
Wheat Board, Investor's Group, Merrill Lynch, CN, Nature's Best and the
Smithsonian Institute to mention a few. His fine art prints of the natural world adorn
offices of corporations, businesses and homes across the country and abroad. Mike
also contributed to four postage stamp projects and his images appear in countless
calendars and books each year. His coffee table book "CANADA" became a
national bestseller early on and his latest book on the Canadian Rockies will be
released in April. Mike is a regular contributor to Outdoor Photography Canada
magazine and lives in "balmy" Winnipeg.
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