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Woodland tales
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6541
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1926
- c1905
- 1920
- 1921
- Author
- Seton, Ernest Thompson
- Publisher
- Garden City (N.Y.) : Doubleday, Page
- Call Number
- 04 Se7
- Author
- Seton, Ernest Thompson
- Publisher
- Garden City (N.Y.) : Doubleday, Page
- Published Date
- 1926
- c1905
- 1920
- 1921
- Physical Description
- xv, 235p. : ill
- Subjects
- Outdoor life
- Accession Number
- 293
- Call Number
- 04 Se7
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Banff, Canadian National Park, in winter : Canada's winter playground
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8506
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1920
- Call Number
- 02.8 B22 Pam
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- Responsibility
- compiled by B.W. Collison
- Published Date
- 1920
- Physical Description
- 40p. : ill., ports
- Subjects
- Banff Winter Carnival
- Notes
- Cover shows Banff Winter Sports as title
- Accession Number
- 74 - ripped cover (display copy) - WEEDED 2020-12-04
- 781
- 3069
- 7320
- 8003 deaccessioned
- Call Number
- 02.8 B22 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Autobiography of John Macoun, M.A., Canadian explorer and naturalist, Assistant Director and Naturalist to the Geological Survey of Canada, 1831- 1920
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6510
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1922
- Author
- Macoun, John
- Call Number
- 04 M23
- Author
- Macoun, John
- Responsibility
- with introduction by Ernest Thompson Seton
- Published Date
- 1922
- Physical Description
- x, 305p. : ill., port
- Notes
- A memorial volume published by the Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Fleming Sandford
- Grant, George Munro
- Accession Number
- 371 deaccessioned c.2
- Call Number
- 04 M23
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The naturalists' directory : containing names, addresses and special subjects of study of professional and amateur naturalists of the United States, Canada and other countries including South America ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12262
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929-1943
- Publisher
- Salem : Samuel E. Cassino
- Call Number
- R 04 N21
- Publisher
- Salem : Samuel E. Cassino
- Published Date
- 1929-1943
- Physical Description
- 3v
- Subjects
- Museums
- Sanson, Norman Bethune
- ISBN
- Shelf-read August 2017 - condition alert: all volumes are worn
- Accession Number
- 224
- Call Number
- R 04 N21
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Taking a break from saving the world : a conservation activist's journey from burnout to balance
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26197
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Legault, Stephen
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04 L52t
- Author
- Legault, Stephen
- Publisher
- Calgary, Alberta : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 166 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Subjects
- Self-Help
- Conservation
- Activism
- Environment
- Abstract
- A veteran of burnout himself, Legault looks at the culture of self-sacrifice that permeates the work done by volunteers and paid staff in the environmental conservation movement, and dissects how to manage our own time, energy, and commitment to our causes. Following a river-running metaphor, and proposing a variety of techniques to help with various states of anxiety resulting from burnout, including clarity of purpose, recognition of limits, fitness and diet, mediation and yoga, as well as organizational structural changes such as leave-of-absence policies, Legault encourages readers to find time to 'eddy out'--to rest a moment in quieter waters and scout downriver--to ensure our lifetime of engagement is fulfilling, effective, and self-sustaining. -- From Backcover
- ISBN
- 9781771603638
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 04 L52t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Moths : a complete guide to biology and behavior
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25515
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Less, David C. and Zilli, Alberto
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books
- Call Number
- 04 L46m
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 208 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 26 cm
- Subjects
- Moths
- Lepidoptera
- Abstract
- Moths are a crucial insect group encompassing more than 160,000 species, and they are among the most ancient of Earth's inhabitants with some fossils believed to be 190 million years old. This richly illustrated guide to their biology, evolution, and history demonstrates the incredible diversity of these winged insects and reveals the ruthless survival tactics used by some--including blood-sucking moths, cannibalism in the cocoon, and carnivorous caterpillars. The book also explores their extraordinary life cycle, charting development from egg to larva to cocoon to airborne adult, as well as the surprising variations of color and wing patterns that moths have evolved. Engaging narrative and specially commissioned photographs of moth specimens make Moths: A Complete Guide to Biology and Behavior a perfect gift book for scientists and science enthusiasts alike. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Introduction: What is a moth? ; Blueprint for success ; Becoming a moth ; A matter of taste ; Mating ; Moth warfare ; Diversity and distribution ; Evolution in action ; Of moths and man
- ISBN
- 9781588346544
- Accession Number
- P2022.02
- Call Number
- 04 L46m
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Cascadia field guide : art, ecology, poetry
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26219
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 04 B73c
- Responsibility
- Edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, Derek Sheffield
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
- Abstract
- A literary field guide of art, poetry, and natural history for 128 of the Beings that live in the thirteen biogregions that make up Cascadia, a region that ranges from southeast Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific coast to the Continental Divide"-- Provided by publisher."Through engaging natural history, poetry, and art, Cascadia Field Guide celebrates [more than 120 beings in the Cascadia region], exploring how they interconnect. It's a useful guide to understanding behavior, appearance, and adaptation, as well as an inspirational anthology - a book that embraces science, while appealing to the mind and heart. This is a guide to be savored and treasured, bringing an imaginative perspective to our "known" natural world"....Also featured is a diverse community of regional voices - more than 100 poets and writers, along with fourteen artists, who speak for, and with, the natural world: Colleen J. McElroy, Theodore Roethke, Rena Priest, David James Duncan, Claudia Castro Luna, Tess Gallgher, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Doyle, Chris Dombrowski, Kim Heacox, Claire Emery, Joe Feddersen, Raya Friday, and more. -- From interior
- ISBN
- 9781680516227
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 04 B73c
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- Archives Library
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Capturing glaciers : a history of repeat photography and global warming
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26254
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Inkpen, Dani
- Publisher
- Seattle : University of Washington Press
- Call Number
- 04 In5c
- Author
- Inkpen, Dani
- Publisher
- Seattle : University of Washington Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- In Capturing Glaciers, Dani Inkpen examines the many ways scientists have made and used photographs of receding glaciers and how the meanings and evidential value of such images evolved over time. This project sheds light on the challenges of conducting research about climate change, the challenges of enacting social change around environmental problems, and the ways that well-intentioned scientists can still replicate social inequalities"-- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Glaciers
- glaciology
- Global warming
- Climate change
- Photography
- Repeat photography
- Environment
- Nature
- Abstract
- In Capturing Glaciers, Dani Inkpen examines the many ways scientists have made and used photographs of receding glaciers and how the meanings and evidential value of such images evolved over time. This project sheds light on the challenges of conducting research about climate change, the challenges of enacting social change around environmental problems, and the ways that well-intentioned scientists can still replicate social inequalities. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction : thinking historically about photos of ice -- Documenting : glacier naturalism -- Transitions : the limits of photography -- Measuring : geophysical glaciology -- Monitoring : environmental glaciology -- Witnessing : the iconography of ice -- Conclusion : people and glaciers.
- Notes
- Whyte Museum collections utilized for research purposes and imagery.
- ISBN
- 9780295752020
- Accession Number
- 2024.27
- Call Number
- 04 In5c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Echo loba, loba echo : of wisdom, wolves and women
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26217
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Swift, Sonja
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04 S5e
- Author
- Swift, Sonja
- Responsibility
- Foreword by Winona LaDuke
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 248 pages ; 20 cm
- Subjects
- Wolves
- Wildlife
- Conservation
- Women
- Abstract
- A unique look at the cultural, environmental, historical, literary, metaphorical, and political role of the wolf. Echo Loba, Loba Echo is a story about the metaphor of the wolf and how this is echoed in the lives and minds of people. A metaphor that embodies worldviews colliding, and the collision, the fallout, we live with still. It is a story about wolves’ own cultures, survival stories, acts of rebellion, and vital roles in maintaining healthy territories. And it is also a story about what we have been told to forget, or never even know, and what wolves show us about ourselves. Through essay and poetry, the metaphor of the wolf, and loba – for she-wolf – is examined the way one might observe the light off a prism, in multi-dimensional ways. The associations are many and diametrically varied. Wolf as scapegoat, villain, outcast, blamed for human violence. Wolf as warrior, guide, mother to stray or orphaned children as well as her own pups. The Ojibwe word for wolf is ma’iingan: the one sent here by that all-loving spirit to show us the way. Wolf (Latin: lupus), which is another word for whore (lupa), for woman. Wolf, another word for backcountry. Yet the choice is not an easy duality, not simply between the notion of wolf as heroine or wolf as devil. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771606288
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 04 S5e
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- Archives Library
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1925
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1926
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1925
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1926
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1925. Published in 1926, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Staff of the museum (pg. 6)
- Objects (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Anthropology (pg. 9)
- Petroglyphs (pg. 9)
- Palaentology (pg. 10)
- Botany (pg. 10)
- Marine Zoology (pg. 17)
- Amphibians and Reptiles (pg. 21)
- Coleoptera (pg. 24)
- Accessions (pg. 34)
- Publications received from other Museums (pg. 37)
- In Memoriam (pg. 38)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1925
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- Archives Library
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1921
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19972
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1922
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1921
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1922
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1921. Published in 1922, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Objects (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Loan Collection of Lepidoptera (pg. 8)
- Mammals (pg. 8)
- List of Chipmunks in the Province of British Columbia (pg. 8)
- A Remarkable Case of External Hind Limbs in a Humpback Whale (pg. 9)
- Ornithology (pg. 11)
- Notes on the Occurrence of the White-winged Dove (Melopelia asiatica) (pg. 11)
- Accessions (pg. 11)
- Botany (pg. 13)
- Entomology (pg. 17)
- The Pterophoridae of British Columbia (pg. 34)
- Accession Number
- 7201 deaccessioned
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1921
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- Archives Library
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1928
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19975
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1928
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by Charles F. Banfield, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1929
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1928. Published in 1929, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Staff of the museum (pg. 6)
- Admission (pg. 6)
- Inception and History of Provincial Musuem (pg. 7)
- Objects (pg. 8)
- Visitors (pg. 9)
- Activities (pg. 9)
- Anthropology and Archaeology (pg. 10, 23)
- Palaeontology (pg. 22, 23)
- Botany (pg. 15)
- Marine Zoology (pg. 12, 25)
- Entomology (pg. 24)
- Amphibians (pg. 24)
- Ornithology (pg. 24)
- Mammology (pg. 23)
- Accesions (pg. 23)
- Publications received from other Museums (pg. 26)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1928
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- Archives Library
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Streams of consequence : dispatches from the conservation world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26207
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Fitch, Lorne
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04 F55s
- Author
- Fitch, Lorne
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 217 pages ; 19 cm
- Abstract
- A collection of essays highlighting the splendour and diversity of the landscape of southern Alberta. Streams of Consequence weaves together a bit of “ecology for dummies,” a cross-section of stories and essays on Alberta’s biodiversity riches and treasured landscapes, and a backdrop of selections on conservation issues. These are stories of the land and of Alberta’s plants, fish, and wildlife told through the voice of a biologist with decades of experience on the front lines of conservation efforts. Through stories, metaphor, and allegory, basic ecological principles are made clear, ecosystems are described, and our human role in stewarding these natural treasures is revealed. Infused in these “dispatches from the conservation world” is the special magic of biology, taking mute organisms at a variety of scales and understanding their lives and habitats so that they have meaning and a connection to us. The role, the unstated objective of biologists, is to remind us, unceasingly, that it is only in our minds that we live apart from the natural world. These stories have power to engage and educate, to help create and sustain an ecologically literate constituency that knows and cares about Alberta’s wilder side. Readers can look back on the changes, weigh their significance, and think about where we came from, where we are today, and where the trend might take us if we choose one road or another. There are some rocks heaved at our economy-centred, consumer-driven world. Scattered between them are the acts of altruism, of caring, of forethought, and of stewardship. These are rays of hope amid dark clouds threatening our very existence. -- From publisher
- ISBN
- 9781771606691
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 04 F55s
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The Canadian mountain assessment : walking together to enhance the understanding of mountains in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26222
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press
- Edition
- 2023
- Call Number
- 04 M14c
- Responsibility
- Graham McDowell (Project Lead), Madison Stevens, Shawn Marshall [and 70 others]
- Edition
- 2023
- Publisher
- Calgary, AB : University of Calgary Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xvii, 355 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), color maps ; 28 cm
- Subjects
- Mountains
- Ecology
- Science
- Indigenous People
- Environment
- Abstract
- The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple forms of evidence together in ways that enhance our collective understanding of mountains in Canada, while also respecting and maintaining the integrity of different knowledge systems. The Canadian Mountain Assessment is a text-based document, but also includes a variety of visual materials as well as access to video recordings of oral knowledges shared by Indigenous individuals from mountain areas in Canada. The assessment is the result of over three years of work, during which time the initiative played an important role in connecting and cultivating relationships between mountain knowledge holders from across Canada. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Mountain environments -- 3. Mountains as homelands -- 4. Gifts of the mountains -- 5. Mountains under pressure -- 6. Desirable mountain futures.
- Notes
- Staff member Dawn Saunders Dahl contributed to this publication.
- 2022-2023 Lillian Agnes Jones Scholarship Recipient, Kate Hanly contributed to this publication.
- Publication utilized Whyte Museum Archives and Special Collections materials.
- ISBN
- 9781773855097
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 04 M14c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The domination of nature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25698
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Leiss, William
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Call Number
- 04 L53t
- Author
- Leiss, William
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 306 pages ; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Environment
- Philosophy
- Science
- Technology
- Nature
- Abstract
- Concern over ecological and environmental problems grows daily, and many believe we’re at a critical tipping point. Scientists, social thinkers, public officials, and the public recognize that failure to understand the destructive impact of industrial society and advanced technologies on the delicate balance of organic life in the global ecosystem will result in devastating problems for future generations. In The Domination of Nature William Leiss argues that this global predicament must be understood in terms of deeply rooted attitudes towards nature. He traces the origins, development, and social consequences of an idea whose imprint is everywhere in modern thought: the idea of the domination of nature. In Part One Leiss traces the idea of the domination of nature from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century. Francis Bacon’s seminal work provides the pivotal point for this discussion, and through an original interpretation of Bacon’s thought, Leiss shows how momentous ambiguities in the idea were incorporated into modern thought. By the beginning of the twentieth century the concept had become firmly identified with scientific and technological progress. This fact defines the task of Part Two. Using important contributions by European sociologists and philosophers, Leiss critically analyzes the role of science and technology in the modern world. In the concluding chapter he puts the idea of mastery over nature into historical perspective and explores a new approach, based on the possibilities of the liberation of nature. Originally published in 1972, The Domination of Nature was part of the first wave of widespread interest in environmental issues. In a new preface Leiss explores the concept of eco-dominion and the moral obligations of human citizens of the twenty-first century.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- The Cunning of Unreason -- Mythical, Religious, and Philosophical Roots -- Francis Bacon -- The Seventeenth Century and After -- Science and Domination -- Science and Nature -- Technology and Domination -- The Liberation of Nature?
- ISBN
- 9780228017257
- Accession Number
- P2023.08
- Call Number
- 04 L53t
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Inhabited : wildness and the vitality of the land
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25571
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Phillip Vannini and April Vannini
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 04 V33i
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion, activities that are wreaking havoc on our planet. Through an ethnographic exploration of Canada's ten UNESCO Natural World Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness, wilderness, and natural heritage. As we are introduced to local inhabitants and their perspectives, Phillip Vannini and April Vannini ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions behind the received meaning of wild, challenging us to reimagine wildness as relational and rooted in vitality. Over the three years they spent in and around these sites, they learned from Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples about their entanglements with each other and with non-human animals, rocks, plants, trees, sky, water, and spirits. The stories, actions, and experiences they encountered challenge conventional narratives of wild places as uninhabited by people and disconnected from culture and society. While it might be tempting to dismiss the idea of wildness as outdated in the Anthropocene era, Inhabited suggests that rethinking wildness suggests a better - if messier - way forward. Part geography and anthropology, part environmental and cultural studies, and part politics and ecology, Inhabited balances a genuine love of nature's vitality with a culturally responsible understanding of its interconnectedness with more-than-human ways of life.-- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- Vitality and Relationality ;Ecological Heritage ; Interlude: Fog ; Entanglement ; Intensity ; Inhabitation ; Interlude: Bear Spray ; Atmosphere ; Interlude: The Lonsome Loon ; Exhaustion ; Interlude : NOT Alone ; Aliveness ; Sacred Ways of Life
- ISBN
- 9780228008965
- Accession Number
- P2022.13
- Call Number
- 04 V33i
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Report of the Provincial Museum of Natural History for the year 1922
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19973
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1923
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1922
- Author
- Province of British Columbia
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Authority of the Legislative Assembly, [printed by William H. Cullin, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.]
- Published Date
- 1923
- Subjects
- Museums
- Anthropology
- Zoology
- Entomology
- Botany
- Paleontology
- Abstract
- Pertains to the commissioner report on the events carried out by the Provincial Museum of Natural history, for the year of 1922. Published in 1923, the Province of British Columbia published the report in an effort to reflect on events from the previous calendar year. The objectives of the report were to secure and preserve specimens reflecting the natural history of British Columbia, collect anthropological material from Indigenous Peoples, and obtain information on natural sciences that could subsequently be shared with the public. The reports were comprehensive in nature and covered but were not exclusive to, topics relating to the following fields of study; anthropology, zoology, entomology, ornithology, botany, paleontology and archaeology. In addition, the reports included a segment on visitors, staff changes, activities and new accessions that had taken place over the last year. Readers can expect a comprehensive report on the annual undertakings of the Provincial Museum of Natural History.
- Contents
- Staff of the Museum (pg. 6)
- Objects (pg. 7)
- Admission (pg. 7)
- Visitors (pg. 7)
- Activities (pg. 7)
- Anthropology (pg. 8)
- Accessions (pg. 10)
- Botany (pg. 13)
- Ornithology (pg. 16)
- Notes on the occurrence of the Plumed Egret (pg. 16)
- Notes on the Iceland Gull (pg. 17)
- Notes on the occurrence of the White Pelican (pg. 18)
- Notes on the occurrence of the Brown Pelican (pg. 18)
- Entomology (pg. 18)
- British Columbia insects new to science (pg. 19)
- Lepidoptera not previously recorded from British Columbia (pg. 22)
- Rare and uncommon Lepidoptera taken in British Columbia during 1922 (pg. 23)
- Microlepidoptera (pg. 26)
- Illustrated Lepidoptera (pg. 31)
- Notes and Corrections (pg. 35)
- Accession Number
- 7201
- Call Number
- 04 P94r 1922
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Hope matters : why changing the way we think is critical to solving the environmental crisis
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25274
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Kelsey, Elin
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books
- Call Number
- 04 K27h
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- Author
- Kelsey, Elin
- Responsibility
- Elin Kelsey
- Publisher
- Vancouver ; Berkeley : Greystone Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 229 pages
- Subjects
- Environment
- Conservation
- Climate change
- Abstract
- We are at an inflection point: today, more people than ever before recognize that climate change and biodiversity loss are urgent and existential threats. Yet constant reports of climate doom are fueling an epidemic of eco-anxiety, leaving many of us feeling hopeless and powerless—and hampering our ability to address the very real challenges we face. Hope Matters boldly breaks through the narrative of doom and gloom that has overtaken conversations about our future to show why hope, not fear, is our most powerful tool for tackling the planetary crisis. Award-winning author, scholar, and educator Elin Kelsey reveals the collateral damage of despair—from young people who honestly believe they have no future to the link between climate anxiety and hyper-consumerism—and argues that the catastrophic environmental news that dominates the media tells only part of the story. She describes effective campaigns to support ocean conservation, species resilience, and rewilding, demonstrating how digital conservation is helping scientists target specific problems with impressive results. And she shows how we can build on these positive trends and harness all our emotions about the changing environment—anger and sadness as well as hope—into effective personal and political action. Timely, evidence-based, and persuasive, Hope Matters is an argument for the place of hope in our lives and a celebration of the turn toward solutions in the face of the environmental crisis. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- The power of expectation and belief -- The collateral damage of doom and gloom -- Hope is contagious -- Stories change -- The age of personalization -- We are not the only ones actively responding -- The strength of empathy, kindness, and compassion -- Trending hopeful.
- Notes
- Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
- ISBN
- 9781771647779
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 04 K27h
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Dark days at noon : the future of fire
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26239
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 04 St8d
- Author
- Struzik, Edward
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- ix, 291 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour map ; 27 cm
- Abstract
- The catastrophic runaway wildfires advancing through North America and other parts of the world are not unprecedented. Fires loomed large once human activity began to warm the climate in the 1820s, leading to an aggressive firefighting strategy that has left many of the continent's forests too old and vulnerable to the fires that many tree species need to regenerate. Dark Days at Noon provides a broad history of wildfire in North America, from pre-European contact to the present, in the hopes that we may learn from how we managed fire in the past, and apply those lessons in the future. As people continue to move into forested landscapes to work, play, live, and ignite fires--intentionally or unintentionally--fire has begun to take its toll, burning entire towns, knocking out utilities, closing roads, and forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. Fire management in North America requires attention and cooperation from both sides of the border, and many of the most significant fires have taken place at the boundary line. Despite a clear lack of political urgency among political leaders, Edward Struzik argues that wildfire science needs to guide the future of fire management, and that those same leaders need to shape public perception accordingly. By explaining how society's misguided response to fire has led to our current situation, Dark Days at Noon warns of what may happen in the future if we do not learn to live with fire as the continent's Indigenous Peoples once did. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction -- 1. Prelude to the dark days at noon -- 2. The fire triangle -- 3. More dark days coming -- 4. The big burn -- 5. Big burns in Canada -- 6. Paiute forestry -- 7. Fire suppression -- 8. The Civilian Conservation Corps -- 9. Canada's Conservation Corps -- 10. The fall of the Dominion Forest Service -- 11. The royal commission into wildfire -- 12. White man's fire -- 13. International co-operation -- 14. Blue moon and blue sun -- 15. Nuclear winter -- 16. Yellowstone: A turning point -- 17. Big and small grizzlies -- 18. Climate and the age of megafire -- 19. The holy shit fire -- 20. The Pyrocene -- 21. Nuclear winter: Part two -- 22. Owls and clear-cuts -- 23. Water on fire -- 24. The Arctic on fire -- 25. The big smoke -- 26. Fire news -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780228012092
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 04 St8d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Organizing nature : turning Canada's ecosystems into resources
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26201
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Biro, Andrew and Cohen, Alice
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 04 B53o
- Publisher
- Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xviii, 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Organizing Nature explores how the environment is organized in Canada's resource-dependent economy. The book examines how particular ecosystem components come to be understood as natural resources and how these resources in turn are used to organize life in Canada. In tracing transitions from "ecosystem component" to "resource," this book weaves together the roles that commodification, Indigenous dispossession, and especially a false nature-society binary play in facilitating the conceptual and material construction of resources. Alice Cohen and Andrew Biro present an alternative to this false nature-society binary: one that sees Canadians and their environments in a constant process of making and remaking each other. Through a series of case studies focused on specific resources--fish, forests, carbon, water, land, and life--the book explores six channels through which this remaking occurs: governments, communities, built environments, culture and ideas, economies, and bodies and identities. Ultimately, Organizing Nature encourages readers to think critically about what is at stake when Canadians (re)produce myths about the false separation between Canadian peoples and their environments."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 From How to Why -- 1.2 From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 1.3 Politics beyond Policy -- 1.4 Resourcification through Six Channels -- 1.5 Book Outline and Common Themes -- 2. Channels: From Ecosystem Components to Resources -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Governments -- 2.3 Communities -- 2.4 Built Environments -- 2.5 Culture and Ideas -- 2.6 Economies -- 2.7 Bodies and Identities -- 2.8 Summary and Conclusions -- 3. From Fish to Fisheries -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Salmon in British Columbia -- 3.3 Cod in Newfoundland and Labrador -- 3.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Fisheries -- 3.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 4. From Forests to Timber -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Growth of Timber: Saint John, New Brunswick -- 4.3 Trees, Not Timber: Port Renfrew, British Columbia, and Darkwoods -- 4.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Forests -- 4.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 5. From Carbon to Energy -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Coal in Nova Scotia -- 5.3 Oil and Bitumen in Alberta -- 5.4 Natural Gas and Fracking -- 5.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Carbon -- 5.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 6. From H2O to Water -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Diversions and Damming -- 6.2.1 Diversion -- 6.2.2 Damming -- 6.3 Drinking Water -- 6.3.1 Vancouver, 2006 -- 6.3.2 Walkerton, Ontario, 2000 -- 6.3.3 Asubpeechoseewagong Netum Anishinabek-Grassy Narrows, Ontario, 1962-? -- 6.3.4 Drinking Water: Summary -- 6.4 Channels in Action: Organizing Water -- 6.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 7. From Land to Property -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Soil -- 7.3 Symbol -- 7.4 Space -- 7.5 Channels in Action: Organizing Land -- 7.6 Summary and Conclusions -- 8. From Bodies to Life -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Wild(?)life: Non-Human Animals -- 8.2.1 Pets and Other Companion Species -- 8.2.2 Fish and Game: Wildness as Economic Resource -- 8.2.3 Parks as Spaces for Wildlife -- 8.3 Human Resources -- 8.3.1 Blood and Plasma -- 8.3.2 Surrogacy -- 8.4 The Channels in Action: Organizing Life -- 8.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 9. Resources: Organized and Organizers -- 9.1 Channels in Action -- 9.2 Common Themes -- 9.2.1 Commodification -- 9.2.2 Indigenous Dispossession -- 9.2.3 Artificial Nature-Society Binary -- 9.3 Why Does 'Resource Thinking' Matter? -- 9.3.1 Winning and Losing -- 9.3.2 Why Is It Important to Think beyond Policy?
- ISBN
- 9781487594848
- Accession Number
- P2023.22
- Call Number
- 04 B53o
- Collection
- Archives Library
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