Q & A
Dylan Everson
- Hometown:
- Coalhurst, AB
- What conservation issue is closest to your heart?
- I never want to see a time when Canada’s natural beauty is destroyed by business and greed. So many species are going extinct at an accelerated rate become of humans growing cities, overhunting and fishing, and pollutants.
- What are you hoping to learn from CCC?
- Going into this adventure I’m expecting to learn a lot about conservation, gain invaluable experience in the field, and most importantly have a great time while out in the field with my peers.
- Who/what inspired you to care about conservation?
- As a child my family would always drive out to B.C. to a forested property my cousins owned. We spent many weekends finding streams, deer and bear kill sites. There was a wide variety of wildlife that wandered through the property. Also, Steve Irwin will always be a hero to me.
- If you could sit down with anyone in the world and have tea or coffee, who would it be? And why?
- Sir David Attenborough. The amount of knowledge and experience that man has in global wildlife and conservation is incredible. Plus, who wouldn’t want to have coffee with the voice of the Planet Earth documentaries?
My Experience So Far
Rocky Mountain Way
Stage 1
For their Stage One adventure, “The Mount10eers” will experience a 14-day hiking/backpacking trip through the Alberta Rocky Mountains. Heading deep into the Rockies, being surrounded by rugged peaks, glacier-carved valleys, mountain lakes and alpine meadows will provide great opportunity for reflection. The experience will teach safe and effective mountain travel, backpacking techniques, minimal-impact camping, navigation and compass work, route-finding skills and how to move across scree and snow-slopes. The journey will also provide a solo experience that can be entirely transformative.
Conservation Field Learning
Stage 2