Arctic Canada: Dance with Wolves!

  Canada

Dates: Three departures available: June 27-July 4, 2009 July 4-11, 2009 July 11-18, 2009

Description: In our nearly four decades of guiding and flying photographers & adventurers to remote Arctic regions, we are fortunate to have located and work with eight active tundra wolf traditional den sites; 'traditional' meaning sites that show evidence of having been annually active for several decades. Our wolves' trips have provided 100% sightings success for all participants in the last seven seasons.

The 'Dance with Wolves' programs - which visit one or more of these traditional wolf sites - are remarkably diversified, comfortable & catered wildlife tent camp expeditions that begin with a 150-250 air mile float plane charter flight out to the Arctic barren lands from either (depending on where the animals are from season to season) Stoney Rapids Saskatchewan or Baker Lake, Nunavut. Here we offer a comfortable & catered tent camp set up on a beautiful sand esker system located near the Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary: the largest and most remote wildlife refuge in Canada. From this site we monitor active white tundra wolf den areas in a truly wild setting.

Highlights: Encounters with wild tundra wolves, musk-oxen, falcons and a variety of other nesting raptors, waterfowl and shorebirds are also highly likely. The midnight sun and tundra flower bloom mark the highlights for this trip!

Cost in US$: $4,595.00 USD single / $8,450.00 USD double

Participants Travel to Canada Independently

Typically Participants Work in Groups of 3-5

Application Process Involves:

• In-Person Interview when Feasible
• Letters of Reference
• Phone Interview
• Resume
• Written Application

Post Services Include:

• Re-Entry Debriefing at Home

Great Canadian Wilderness Adventures's Mission Statement: Our mission as wildlife guides and interpretive trip leaders is to take interested and concerned clients safely into the most remote Arctic wilderness areas of the North American continent to see wildlife and rare birds in their true natural habitat. These wilderness areas include the remote Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary and Queen Maud Gulf Migratory Bird Sanctuary, both located on the mainland Arctic of Nunavut, Canada. Examples of wildlife species include the Great Summer Caribou Migration, tundra wolves and their pups during the den cycle; musk-oxen herds, wolverine, Arctic & cross fox during the den cycle; barrenland grizzly, black bear, and moose. Examples of bird species include peregrine & gyrfalcon; rough-legged hawk; Arctic terns & jaegers; all three sub-species of loon; plus a variety of waterfowl and shorebirds during the nesting, molting and migratory staging period. We practice strict field ethics regarding the non-harrassment of wildife or birds, and we teach these methods on the field to our clients during our special tours. This is our 38th year of operating and guiding wildlife expeditions in Canada's Arctic, and we offer the best of references by request.

Year Founded: 1992