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The collector : David Douglas and the natural history of the Northwest
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13949
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Nisbet, Jack
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books ; [New York, NY] : Distributed by PGW/Perseus
- Call Number
- 04.1 D65n
- Author
- Nisbet, Jack
- Responsibility
- Jack Nisbet
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books ; [New York, NY] : Distributed by PGW/Perseus
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- xiii, 290 p. : maps
- Subjects
- Trees
- Exploration
- Biography
- ISBN
- ISBN: 9781570616136
- Accession Number
- 60,000 2010-12-17
- Call Number
- 04.1 D65n
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Drawing from the mountain : an illustrated journey
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24999
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Perry, Lorne
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- 06.1 P41d
- Author
- Perry, Lorne
- Responsibility
- Lorne Perry
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 141 p. : ill., ports.
- Subjects
- Art
- Trees
- Flora
- Flowers
- Geology
- Wildlife
- Mountaineering
- Equipment
- Biography
- Mountains
- Rocky Mountains
- Photography
- Wilderness
- Travel
- Abstract
- Pertains to art created by Lorne Perry during
- Contents
- Prologue
- Beginning with trees
- The limstone triangle
- A fine kind of madness
- "Real good" stories
- Lords of the dance
- The power of one
- Flesh and blood
- The gift
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Signed by Lorne Perry
- ISBN
- 9781894765817
- Accession Number
- 2019.110
- Call Number
- 06.1 P41d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Eating dirt : deep forests, big timber, and life with the tree-planting tribe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25247
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Gill, Charlotte
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Greystone Books
- Call Number
- 03.6 G41e
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- Author
- Gill, Charlotte
- Responsibility
- Charlotte Gill
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Greystone Books
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 247 pages
- Abstract
- A tree planter's vivid story of a unique subculture and the magical life of the forest. Charlotte Gill spent twenty years working as a tree planter in the forests of Canada. During her million-tree career, she encountered hundreds of clearcuts, each one a collision site between human civilization and the natural world, a complicated landscape presenting geographic evidence of our appetites. Charged with sowing the new forest in these clearcuts, tree planters are a tribe caught between the stumps and the virgin timber, between environmentalists and loggers. In Eating Dirt, Gill offers up a slice of tree planting life in all of its soggy, gritty exuberance, while questioning the ability of conifer plantations to replace original forests that evolved over millennia into complex ecosystems. She looks at logging's environmental impact and its boom-and-bust history, and touches on the versatility of wood, from which we have devised countless creations as diverse as textiles and airplane parts. Eating Dirt also eloquently evokes the wonder of trees, which grow from tiny seeds into one of the world's largest organisms, our slowest-growing ""renewable"" resource. Most of all, the book joyously celebrates the priceless value of forests and the ancient, ever-changing relationship between humans and trees. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- The last place on Earth -- A kind of tribe -- Rookie Years -- Green fluorescent protein -- A furious way of being -- The town that logging made -- At the end of the reach -- Extremophiles -- Sunset -- Exit lines.
- Notes
- Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.
- ISBN
- 9781553657927
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.6 G41e
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25271
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Wohlleeben, Peter
- Billinghurst, Jane
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC, Canada : David Suzuki Institute ; Vancouver, BC, Canada ; Berkeley : Greystone Books Ltd
- Call Number
- 04.1 W81t
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- Responsibility
- Peter Wohlleeben (author)
- Jane Billinghurst (translator)
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC, Canada : David Suzuki Institute ; Vancouver, BC, Canada ; Berkeley : Greystone Books Ltd
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- xv, 272 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. After learning about the complex life of trees, a walk in the woods will never be the same again. Includes a Note From a Forest Scientist, by Dr.Suzanne Simard (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreword / by Tim Flannery -- Introduction to the English edition -- Introduction -- Friendships -- The language of trees -- Social security -- Love -- The tree lottery -- Slowly does it -- Forest etiquette -- Tree school -- United we stand, divided we fall -- The mysteries of moving water -- Trees aging gracefully -- Mighty oak or mighty wimp? -- Specialists -- Tree or not tree? -- In the realm of darkness -- Carbon dioxide vacuums -- Woody climate control -- The forest as water pump -- Yours or mine? -- Community housing projects -- Mother ships of biodiversity -- Hibernation -- A sense of time -- A question of character -- The sick tree -- Let there be light -- Street kids -- Burnout -- Destination north! -- Tough customers -- Turbulent times -- Immigrants -- Healthy forest air -- Why is the forest green? -- Set free -- More than just a commodity -- Note from a forest scientist / by Dr. Suzanne Simard.
- ISBN
- 9781771642484
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 04.1 W81t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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The insatiable bark beetle
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13986
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Halter, Reese
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04.2 H16i
- Author
- Halter, Reese
- Responsibility
- Dr. Reese Halter
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 161 p. ; 19 cm.
- Subjects
- Trees
- Entomology
- Environmental conservation
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references
- ISBN
- 9781926855660
- Accession Number
- 60,500 11-11-29
- Call Number
- 04.2 H16i
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Kootenay Plains / Study #2
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- Date
- 2002 – 2002
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.03.14
- Description
- A pencil sketch of a landscape on paper with intact sketchbook binding holes at the top. Three mountain shapes dominate the top section of this image, with a suggestion of trees in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc. Au verso, written in pencil in the tlhc, “46/y-6”.
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- Title
- Kootenay Plains / Study #2
- Date
- 2002 – 2002
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.6 cm
- Description
- A pencil sketch of a landscape on paper with intact sketchbook binding holes at the top. Three mountain shapes dominate the top section of this image, with a suggestion of trees in the foreground. The artist’s signature is in the brhc. Au verso, written in pencil in the tlhc, “46/y-6”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.03.14
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Kootenay Plains / Study #3
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.03.09
- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.03.09
- Description
- A pencil sketch of a landscape on paper with intact sketchbook binding holes at the top. Trees dominate the foreground, with a shaded mountain range in the background. The artist’s signature is in the brhc. Au verso, written in pencil in the tlhc, “45/I-7”.
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- Title
- Kootenay Plains / Study #3
- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 17.6 cm
- Description
- A pencil sketch of a landscape on paper with intact sketchbook binding holes at the top. Trees dominate the foreground, with a shaded mountain range in the background. The artist’s signature is in the brhc. Au verso, written in pencil in the tlhc, “45/I-7”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.03.09
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Kootenay Plains/Mountain Study #4
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactgrl.01.13
- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.13
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, grey, white, green and burgundy. A blue sky is punctuated by several clouds in the tlhc. Two burgundy mountains dominate the right of the work, and the majority of the bottom of the piece is painted in green tones. The blhc i…
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- Title
- Kootenay Plains/Mountain Study #4
- Date
- 2001 – 2001
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 35.6 x 45.7 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape. The primary colours used are blue, grey, white, green and burgundy. A blue sky is punctuated by several clouds in the tlhc. Two burgundy mountains dominate the right of the work, and the majority of the bottom of the piece is painted in green tones. The blhc is painted white. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in blue paint. Au verso, written in black ink at the tlhc, “45/E-2”.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.13
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- Artist
- Gennadiy Ivanov
- Date
- ca. 2022 – 2022
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Catalogue Number
- IvG.03.04
- Description
- Landscape drawing of Mount Robson composed of a colour palette of varying of blues, purples, white and brown. The background has a blue sky, with clouds rendered in white and purple. The focal point is the large mountain decorated with white, purple and brown vertical lines. The middle ground us a …
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- Artist
- Gennadiy Ivanov
- Title
- Mount Robson
- Date
- ca. 2022 – 2022
- Medium
- pastel on paper
- Dimensions
- 49.0 x 35.0 cm
- Description
- Landscape drawing of Mount Robson composed of a colour palette of varying of blues, purples, white and brown. The background has a blue sky, with clouds rendered in white and purple. The focal point is the large mountain decorated with white, purple and brown vertical lines. The middle ground us a forest of green trees, and the foreground is a flat area of green grass.
- Credit
- Gift of Gennadiy Ivanov, Norwich, Norfolk , UK, 2023
- Catalogue Number
- IvG.03.04
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Mountain Graveyard
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- Date
- 2000 – 2000
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.09
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape with a forest in the foreground. The primary colours used are green, orange and grey. The top section of the image shows a small segment of sky, with an orange mountain rimmed in a thin red line. The centre of the image presents a series of impressionistic tree…
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- Title
- Mountain Graveyard
- Date
- 2000 – 2000
- Medium
- oil on masonite board
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 40.5 cm
- Description
- An oil sketch of a mountain landscape with a forest in the foreground. The primary colours used are green, orange and grey. The top section of the image shows a small segment of sky, with an orange mountain rimmed in a thin red line. The centre of the image presents a series of impressionistic trees, also with lines of red intermingled. The bottom of the image has several horizontal lines, on of which, near the brhc is blue, in the shape of a cross. The artist’s signature is in the brhc in green paint.
- Credit
- Gift of Les Graff, Bashaw, 2006
- Catalogue Number
- GrL.01.09
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