 Okay, we're here in Bugaboo Provincial Park. We're here this week with a group of 10 high school youth from Kimberley and Invermere who are participating in a week-long climbing and hiking trip in the park. The camp is being held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of D.C. Parks and it's being sponsored by Canadian Mountain Holidays and we've brought these 10 kids in after they answered the question, 100 years after the creation of the D.C. Park system, what is the significance? So these 10 students from the local high schools have come in and we're teaching them mountain skills and showing them around, teaching them about the D.C. Park system, the tourism industry, the adventure tourism industry and giving them all the skills they need to get themselves out into the mountains. Well, the Bugaboo's are an internationally renowned outfiring climbing paradise. People travel from all over the world to come scale these rocks. Well, this park is actually pretty spectacular. The views are stunning. It's unlike anywhere else that's accessible from Ohio within a few hours. It's just the granite spire sticking out of blue glacier ice. It's really hard to prepare that so most people leave here with that view etched in their minds. It's pretty stunning. The majority of the visitors to the Bugaboo spend their time in this spire's area climbing on this key group of granite spires. But the park encompasses a number of valleys as well and entire watersheds that are really key marsh and wetland habitat. So it's a good balance between conservation in the outlying areas and recreation in the core area. The cane hut down below us, it has a capacity of 35 visitors. Applebee campground is up above and it fills up from time to time with 80 people on long weekends, which is pretty significant. Well, we do our best to monitor impacts from human use and facility development and do our best to mitigate those impacts and keep the place in as natural a state as possible. Just so that we have a reference point, a benchmark for monitoring the impact of humans on the landscape as a whole. I guess I look at being a park ranger as being kind of a custodian in a temple. So, you know, little, little tasks that you have to complete that, you know, in another location, in another environment, maybe wouldn't mean that much when you're completing them here. And you know that it's part of a bigger picture of keeping a place that's as special as this pristine. It takes on a greater meaning. Yeah, the indicator of climate change that everybody's bound to notice is the recession of the glaciers. Each year you come in, the glaciers move back further and further and as they thin out, that recession becomes more rapid and that creates a number of kind of unique issues here in the Bugboos with access to the climbs, which are often on glacier. And as the glaciers recede, it exposes rock and rubble that often creates a hazard to the climbers. Well, you know, I think parks are important. There's two major things that we're trying to protect is the recreational opportunities, but also the conservation values. Those two go hand in hand. You know, the BC Preventure Park system is so significant, it's so diverse. It protects everything from marine parks, grasslands to high alpine. It's a really special resource and it's really the jewel of the problem. And I really hope that it can be maintained in a state that it is for future generations to enjoy. And for research opportunities, it's a place that's untouched by major development. It's a place for people to monitor things like climate change and the changes of the landscape, unaffected by major human impacts. Yeah, my ultimate hope for this park in 100 years would be that it's much the same as it is today. And I think that's the ultimate goal is for people to continue to come to visit the park and to find the experience that they're looking for. You know, a bit of wilderness, a bit of social atmosphere and a great alpine rock paradise. I guess just working in this environment every day, being, you know, focused on the task at hand, but then looking up and looking around and just taking stock of where you are and how lucky you are to be there. That's something that all park rangers, I think, appreciate about their jobs. For me, there is a higher meaning to working in the bugaboos. It is a job. I work hard. I get a paycheck every two weeks. But it's much more than that. It really is one of the greatest privileges of my life.