Yale Environment 360: Along the banks of the Quatre Fourches River, 125 miles downstream of Albertas massive tar sands development, Joe Wandering Spirit once lived in a single-room cabin with a crazy cat and a team of sled dogs that he kept tied up outside year-round.
As Wandering Spirit knows, living in the heart of the Peace-Athabasca Delta -- one of the worlds largest inland freshwater deltas -- has never been secure. In this 2,200-square-mile expanse of waterways and wetlands, seasonally meandering rivers and...