Kevin Van Tighem
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Kevin Van Tighem is a native-born Calgarian, naturalist and writer. He spent a third of a century working in Canada's western national parks before retiring in 2011. Kevin used to serve on the Alberta Regional board of the Nature Conservancy of Canada.