George Calef
Canadian wildlife biologist, author and photographer
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George Calef is a Canadian wildlife biologist, author and photographer,[1] who won the Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction at the 1981 Governor General's Awards for his nature book Caribou and the Barren-Lands.[1][2]
George Calef | |
|---|---|
| Occupations | biologist, writer |
| Writing career | |
| Period | 1970s-1990s |
| Notable works | Caribou and the Barren-Lands |
Born in Los Angeles, California and educated at the University of British Columbia,[3] Calef worked as a wildlife biology researcher in the Canadian Arctic, studying caribou for the governments of Canada and the Northwest Territories.[3] In 1977, he testified before the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry on the potential impact of the pipeline development on caribou habitat.[3]
In the 1990s, he was a co-owner of Oldsquaw Lodge, a wilderness lodge off the Canol Road near the Northwest Territories-Yukon border.[4]
