Kevin Van Tighem has worked in landscape ecology and conservation for four decades. Since retiring from a decades-long career in Canada’s national parks that culminated in his service as Superintendent of Banff National Park, he has served on the boards of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, and the Livingstone Landowners Group, and been active in support of numerous conservation causes. Van Tighem is the award-winning author of fifteen books on wildlife and nature; his next book, Understory, will be released in fall 2025. In 2021 Van Tighem received the Wildlife Federation’s Robert Bateman Award for advancing wildlife conservation through the arts, He has also been honoured by the Kainai Environmental Protection Society with a Blackfoot name, Ihtssakwi k’a’taa, that translates to Rough Rapid Water.
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In the spirit of reconciliation, we acknowledge that we live, work and play on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Iyarhe Nakoda Nations, the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of the Métis Nation within Alberta District 6, and all people who make their homes in the Treaty 7 region of Southern Alberta.
