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 Microsoft Corporation Recommends Local Web Site

Microsoft Corporation, in its monthly newsletter, Microsoft FrontPage Bulletin, has recommended Canmore Web Site www.MountainNature.com as one of its Outstanding Sites. Microsoft FrontPage is one of the top selling web site development products on the market today. Across the Internet, millions of web developers use this software to create innovative web sites. Last month, editors of the FrontPage Bulletin asked web masters to submit sites for review and were deluged with hundreds of responses. From these they chose to list only 7 in their December issue, among them www.MountainNature.com (also the only Canadian Site selected). You can see their entire list at:  www.MountainNature.com/News/2000-12%20FrontPageBulletin.htm

Microsoft Corporation lauded MountainNature.com for its “wonderful use of database and forms”. “The Internet is no longer a static environment where web pages are placed online and then forgotten. The Internet must be dynamic. Using numerous databases to drive MountainNature.com, I have been able to create a multitude of ways that users can interact with the site. It also facilitates the collection of research data that is key to our future projects with researchers,” says Ward.

“MountainNature.com combines the tools of a traditional field guide with the interactivity of the web. By taking advantage of recent technological changes that allow the Internet to act as an immense online community, MountainNature.com is on the cutting edge of Internet development. Site users can access the most comprehensive online guide to the plants, animals and birds of the Rockies, and at the same time, they can contribute sightings to a huge online database. This information can be turned over to biologists and researchers attempting to preserve the plants, animals and birds of the mountains,” says Ward Cameron, cybernaturalist at MountainNature.com

Ward has been a professional naturalist, guide and storyteller for almost two decades. He has written three books on western Canada and thrilled visitors to the Rockies with his expertise, wit and wealth of knowledge. Now you can benefit from his expertise and, at the same time, help researchers working in the Canadian Rockies. As a naturalist, outdoorsman and adventurer, Ward has more than a few experiences that your readers would love to hear about – bears in the backcountry, wolverines by mountain bike, eagles at close range and, yes, the infamous marten in the igloo. It’s all about sharing the wealth.

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Visitors to www.MountainNature.com can:

• Test your bear knowledge using our exclusive self-test

• Learn 10 secrets to becoming an expert naturalist

• Learn to identify the many plants, animals and birds of the Rockies

• Search for recent sightings to focus your quest for a new species

• Record your observations so that participating scientists can use your research to help protect the Canadian Rockies.

Ward has been a professional naturalist, guide and storyteller for almost two decades. He has written four books on western Canada and thrilled visitors to the Rockies with his expertise, wit and wealth of knowledge. As a naturalist, outdoorsman and adventurer, Ward has more than a few experiences that your audience would love to hear about – bears in the backcountry, wolverines by mountain bike, eagles at close range and, yes, the infamous marten in the igloo. It’s all about sharing the wealth.