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Caribou rainforest : from heartbreak to hope

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Moskowitz, David
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books
Call Number
04.2 M85c
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Author
Moskowitz, David
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Braided River, the conservation imprint of Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
204 pages : color illustrations, color maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Caribou
Wildlife
Conservation
Alberta
Rocky Mountains
Abstract
In a North American rainforest, that few people even know exists, about a dozen dwindling herds of caribou are struggling to survive. Caribou Rainforest doesn’t tell an easy story, ask easy questions, or pretend that there are easy solutions to the possible extinction of the last mountain caribou herds found in Canada and the United States. There are fewer than twenty animals left in the last US herd. Yet what Caribou Rainforest does—with photographs, words, and science—is explain why this is happening, so that as a community we don’t repeat our mistakes, even when our intentions are good. Author and photographer David Moskowitz has studied and photographed these caribou extensively in order to understand their plight. He hasn’t found villains, but rather climate change, predators, recreationists, settler colonialism, industrial logging, mineral extraction, and a perfect confluence of factors that have worked against this fragile species and the fragile environment upon which it relies. The story of this iconic animal and stunning landscape provides an example of shifting conservation challenges and tactics in the twenty-first century. Mountain caribou have been identified as an “umbrella species” by conservationists, meaning that protecting their habitat also helps preserve many other species who depend on the same ecosystem. The discussion topics are controversial and wrenching—upending the forestry economy of the region, exterminating wolves (who also struggle to survive) to protect the caribou, limiting recreational access to critical habitat, respecting the rights of indigenous peoples. The issues are contentious, but the opportunity to craft solutions still exists. If we do in fact lose the caribou, the task then pivots to how can we protect what remains of this rare rainforest ecosystem. In Caribou Rainforest, the author searches for lessons that can turn despair into hope: their story can become the inspiration and catalyst for committed change. (from Caribou Rainforest website)
Contents
North America's hidden rainforest. Map: Mountain caribou range : historical and current -- The mountains : our playground, their last refuge. Map: Overview of the Caribou Rainforest -- The Caribou Rainforest : a forest like none other. Map: Northwest inland temperate rainforest -- Mountain caribou : ghosts of the rainforest. Map: Historical and current caribou populations -- Wildlife of these mountains : a laboratory of evolution -- Human dimensions : the language of a landscape -- The path ahead : reflections on grief and hope -- Acknowledgments -- Source notes -- Selected bibliography -- Photographer's notes -- Get involved.
Notes
Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival finalist for Mountain Environment and Natural History
ISBN
9781680511284
Accession Number
P2020-1
Call Number
04.2 M85c
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Caribou Rainforest project
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The animal kingdom : based upon the writings of the eminent naturalists, Audubon, Wallace, Brehm, Wood and others

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1897
Author
Craig, Hugh (editor)
Publisher
New York : Johnson & Bailey
Call Number
04.2 C84a Volume One
04.2 C84a Volume Two
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Author
Craig, Hugh (editor)
Responsibility
John James Audubon
Alfred Edmund Brehm
Publisher
New York : Johnson & Bailey
Published Date
1897
Physical Description
2 volumes : color illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Wildlife
Wildlife artists
Art
Abstract
Pertains the the animal kingdom as it was known in 1897 and includes stories and summaries and art by several well known wildlife artists and naturalists in two volumes
Contents
Contents of Volume One:
Mammalia
Quadrumana
Cheiroptera
Insectivora
Carnivora
Cetacea
Contents of Volume Two:
Sirenia
Ungulata
Proboscidea
Hyracoidea
Rodentia
Edentata
Marsupialia
Montremata
Notes
Belonged to Pat Brewster
Accession Number
2926
Call Number
04.2 C84a Volume One
04.2 C84a Volume Two
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online via Hathi Trust
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Thrushes, Thrashers, and Swallows*

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1936
Author
Pearson, Gilbert T.
Publisher
National Geographic
Call Number
04.2 P31t
Variant Title
*Robins and Bluebirds are familiar members of a famous musical family which includes the Hermit Thrush and European Nightingales
Author
Pearson, Gilbert T.
Responsibility
Gilbert T. Pearson
Publisher
National Geographic
Published Date
1936
Physical Description
13 pages ; illus.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Birds
Birds--Alberta
Zoology
Zoology--Alberta
Wildlife
Wildlife artists
Art
Abstract
Pertains to the family Mimidae
Contents
Game Wardens find out who killed the cock robin Colonists found a “Blue Robin” Three wives in a single season Cousins of the Nightingale Woodlands ring with flutelike music The Mockingbird is a world-famous vocalist Swallows of a feather flock together What’s in a name? Townsend’s Solitaire (Myadestes townsendi) Varied Thrush (Ixoreus naevius) Olive-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata swainsoni) Wood Thrush (Hylocichla mustelina) Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttata) Veery (Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens) Eastern Bluebird (Sialia sialis sialis) Western Bluebird (Sialia mexicana) Mountain Bluebird (Sialia currucoides) Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) Sage Thrasher (Oreoscoptes montanus) Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) Curve-billed Thrasher (Toxostoma curvirostre) Brown Thrasher (Toxostoma rufum) Bendire’s Thrasher (Toxostoma bendirei) California Thrasher (Toxostoma redivivum redivivum) Crissal Thrasher (Toxostoma dorsale dorsale) Leconte’s Thrasher (Toxostoma lecontei lecontei) Purple Martin (Progne subis) Northern Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon albifrons albifrons) Barn Swallow (Hirundo erhthrogaster) Violet-green Swallow (Tachycineta thalassina lepida) Tree Swallow (Iridoprocne bicolor) Bank Swallow (Riparia Riparia Riparia) American Pipit (Anthus spinoletta spinoletta) Sprague’s Pipit (Anthus spraguei) Horned Lark (Otocoris alpestris)
Notes
Reprinted from National Geographic, Volume LXIX, No. 4, April 1936
Paintings by Maj. Allan Brooks
Accession Number
825
Call Number
04.2 P31t
Collection
Archives Library
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Hinterland who's who

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1973-1974
Author
Canadian Wildlife Service
Publisher
Ottawa : Canadian Wildlife Service
Call Number
04.2 C16h PAM
  1 website  
Author
Canadian Wildlife Service
Publisher
Ottawa : Canadian Wildlife Service
Published Date
1973-1974
Physical Description
11 volumes ; 2 pages ; illus. (b&w)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Wildlife
Zoology
Education
Abstract
Hinterland Who’s Who published by the Canadian Wildlife service - two-page pamphlet with summary of various animals in Canada including photographs, range maps, footprint drawings
Contents
Wolf
Snowshoe hare
Chipmunk
Bat
Beaver
White-tailed deer
Mountain sheep
Moose
Caribou
Cougar
Muskrat
Notes
These are separate publications catalogued together
Issued under the authority of the Minister of the Environment
Accession Number
TBD
Call Number
04.2 C16h PAM
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Canadian Wildlife Federation website with additional Hinterland Who’s Who information including video
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Talking with bears : conversations with Charlie Russell

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Bradshaw, G.A.
Publisher
Rocky Mountain Books
Edition
First edition
Call Number
04.2 B72t
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Author
Bradshaw, G.A.
Responsibility
G.A. Bradshaw
Edition
First edition
Publisher
Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
251 pages : illustrations (some colour), portrait
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Bears
Bears, Grizzly
Russell, Charles (Charlie)
Abstract
This is an intimate portrait of Charlie Russell's philosophy of nature. Accompanied by stunning photography, the book is written in narrative form, the way Charlie spoke and shared his stories and knowledge with others. Each of the chapters describes some facet of Charlie's philosophy and experiences through the stories of individual bears and what they taught him: the meaning of trust, respect, attention, love, and much more.
Contents
Preface
Introduction - The bear who rolled stones
Chapter One - The bear with jeweller's hands
Chapter Two - The bear at Kurilskoye
Chatper Three - The bear of Horseshoe Mountains
Chapter Four - The bear at the bend
Chapter Five - The bear who said stop
Chapter Six - The bear who liked to dive
Chapter Seven - The bear who took advantage
Chapter Eight - The bear who listened
Chapter Nine - The bear who cried
Chapter Ten - Bohm's bear
Literature cited
About the author
ISBN
9781771603614
Accession Number
P2020-6
P2020-7 - ref copy
Call Number
04.2 B72t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Link to book on Rocky Mountain Books website
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Important bird and biodiversity areas of Alberta - a Nature Alberta checklist

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Nature Alberta
Publisher
Nature Alberta
Call Number
04.2 N19i
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Author
Nature Alberta
Publisher
Nature Alberta
Published Date
2020
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Birds
Birds--Alberta
Maps
Biodiversity
Abstract
Alberta has abundant natural areas that support a broad range of birds and wildlife. The Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBA) program is one way in which we help support and promote the protection and conservation of these natural areas that are essential habitat for bird populations, which have been shown to be effective indicators of wider biodiversity. The Important Bird and Biodiveristy Areas Checklist introduces you to Alberta’s IBAs, and highlights a fascinating piece of our province’s natural history that we hope you will take the time to learn about, experience and enjoy. (from Nature Alberta website)
Notes
Free with Natur Alberta subscription
Call Number
04.2 N19i
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Available online via Nature Alberta
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What bears teach us

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Elmeligi, Sarah
Marriott, John E.
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
Edition
First
Call Number
04.2 El6w
  1 website  
Author
Elmeligi, Sarah
Marriott, John E.
Responsibility
Sarah Elmeligi (author)
John E. Marriott (photographer)
Edition
First
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
223 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Bears
Bears, Grizzly
Ecology
Abstract
A lavishly illustrated book that explores the complex behavioural characteristics of North America’s largest land carnivores by examining the bear–human relationship from the bear’s perspective. From the first moment Sarah Elmeligi came eye to eye with a grizzly bear, her life changed. In a moment that lasted mere seconds, she began to question everything she thought she knew about bears. How could this docile creature be the same one with a fearsome reputation for vicious attacks? Through years of research, Elmeligi grew to appreciate that bears are so much more than data points, stunning photos, and sensational online stories. Elmeligi expertly weaves the science of bear behaviour with her passionate account of personal encounters. Dive into the life of a bear biologist as Sarah’s colleagues recount their own “stories from the field” – intimate moments with bears where they were connected to an animal with personality, decision-making capabilities, and a host of engaging behaviours. Join Elmeligi and Marriott on a journey that examines and shares the behaviour of black, grizzly, and polar bears in North America in a way you’ve never seen before. What Bears Teach Us will surprise you, inspire you, foster your curiosity, and teach you something new about bears and maybe even yourself. (From publisher's website)
Contents
Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Bears and People in North America: An Ever-Evolving Dynamic -- Chapter 1: Patience and Tolerance -- Seafood or Berries for Dinner? -- Life on the British Columbia Coast -- Life in Alberta's Mountains -- Management Conundrums -- Stories from the Field: Mating Season in the Khutz -- Chapter 2: Adaptation and Coexistence -- Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Bear? It Depends... -- Predictability as the Mother of Adaptation -- Coexistence -- Stories from the Field: There's a Bear in My Parking Lot! A Human Perspective by Courtney Hughes, PhD -- Chapter 3: Knowing When to Walk Away -- Bears That Stand Their Ground -- The Role People Play -- What We Learn -- Stories from the Field: A Quiet Run-In by Dan Rafla -- Chapter 4: Resilience -- Arctic Living -- Resilience in the Face of Climate Change -- What, Where and When to Eat -- Human-Bear Conflict -- A Future for Polar Bears -- Stories from the Field: Arctic Non-Adventures by Andrew Derocher -- Chapter 5: Living in the Present Based on Lessons from the Past -- How Bears Learn -- Lessons Learned From and Around People -- The Story of Bear 148 Stories from the Field: Personality Shapes Who You Are by Sydney R. Stephens -- Chapter 6: Just Being Yourself -- Stories from the Field: Swimming is for the Birds, not the Bears -- Being Born Different -The Story of Booboo and Yogi by Julia McKay -- Bibliography -- Notes
ISBN
9781771603935
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
04.2 El6w
Location
Reading Room
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
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Villain, vermin, icon, kin : wolves and the making of Canada

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Rutherford, Stephanie
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Call Number
04.2 R93v
Author
Rutherford, Stephanie
Publisher
Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Wolves
Animals
History
Literature
Science
culture
Abstract
A wolf's howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected. Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and free, wolves have been at the heart of Canada's national story since long before Confederation. Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin contends that the role in which wolves have been cast - monster or hero - has changed dramatically through time. Exploring the social history of wolves in Canada, Stephanie Rutherford weaves an innovative tapestry from the varied threads of historical and contemporary texts, ideas, and practices in human-wolf relations, from provincial bounties to Farley Mowat's iconic Never Cry Wolf. These examples reveal that Canada was made, in part, through relationships with nonhuman animals. Wolves have always captured the human imagination. In sketching out the connections people have had with wolves at different times, Villain, Vermin, Icon, Kin offers a model for more ethical ways of interacting with animals in the face of a global biodiversity crisis. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
PART ONE: VILLIANS AND VERMIN -- Fear: settler encounters with wildness out of place -- Disgust: bounties and bureaucracies of extermination -- PART TWO: RECUPERATING THE WOLF -- Passion: writing the wolf in Canadian literature -- Curiosity: the scientific reimagining of a predator -- Devotion: wolf live in modern times -- PART THREE: KNOWING THE WOLF -- Ambivalence: dwelling in multispecies assemblages -- Empathy: Indigneous teachings offer a way out (and in) -- Epilogue: the hazards of a symbol
ISBN
9780228011088
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
04.2 R93v
Collection
Archives Library
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Traces of the animal past : methodological challenges in animal history

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
Call Number
04.2 B64t
Responsibility
Edited by Jennifer Bonnell and Sean Kheraj
Publisher
Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
vii, 419 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Zoology
Animals
History
Research
Abstract
Leading scholars in animal history confront key questions of how we can know and understand the more-than-human past, showcasing the innovative methods historians use to discover and explain how animals fit into our collective histories. Understanding the relationships between humans and animals is essential to a full understanding of both our present and our shared past. Across the humanities and social sciences, researchers have embraced the 'animal turn,' a multispecies approach to scholarship, with historians at the forefront of new research in human-animal studies that blends traditional research methods with interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks that decenter humans in historical narratives. These exciting approaches come with core methodological challenges for scholars seeking to better understand the past from non-anthropocentric perspectives. Whether in a large public archive, a small private collection, or the oral histories of living memories, stories of animals are mediated by the humans who have inscribed the records and organized archival collections. In oral histories, the place of animals in the past are further refracted by the frailty of human memory and recollection. Only traces remain for researchers to read and interpret. Bringing together seventeen original essays by a leading group of international scholars, Traces of the Animal Past showcases the innovative methods historians use to unearth and explain how animals fit into our collective histories. Situating the historian within the narrative, bringing transparency to methodological processes, and reflecting on the processes and procedures of current research, this book presents new approaches and new directions for a maturing field of historical inquiry.-- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction: traces of the animal past / Bonnell, Jennifer and Kheraj, Sean -- PART I: EMBODIED HISTORIES -- Kicking over the traces? freeing the animal from the archive / Swart, Sandra -- Occupational hazards: honeybee labour as an interpretive device in animal history / Bonnell, Jennifer -- Hearing history through hoofbeats: exploring equine volition and voice in the archive / Stallones Marshall, Lindsay -- PART II: TRACES -- Who is greyhound? reflections on the non-human digital archive / Nance, Susan -- Accessing animal health knowledge: popular educators and veterinary science in rural Ontario / Hodgins, Jody -- Animal Cruelty, metaphoric narrative, and the hudson's bay company, 1919-1939 / Colpitts, George -- PART III: THE UNKNOWABLE ANIMAL -- Vanishing flies and the lady entomologist / McNeur, Catherine -- Guinea Pig agnotology / Dean, Joanna -- Tuffy's cold war: science, memory, and the US navy's dolphin / Colby, Jason M. -- The elephant in the archive / Rothfels, Nigel -- PART IV: SPATIAL SOURCES AND ANIMAL MOVEMENT -- Making tracks: a grizzly and entangled history / Campbell, Colleen and Loo, Tina -- Spatial analysis and digital urban animal history / Kheraj, Sean -- Visualizing the animal city: digital experiments in animal history / Robichaud, Andrew -- What's guanaco? tracing the llama diaspora through and beyond South America / Wakild, Emily -- PART V: LOOKING AT ANIMALS -- Hidden in plain sight: how art and visual culture can help us think about animal histories / Cronin, J. Keri -- Creatures on display: making an animal exhibit at the archives of Ontario / Young, Jay -- Portraits of extinction: encountering bluebuck narratives in the natural history museum / Jørgensen, Dolly -- Epilogue: combinations and conjunction / Ritvo, Harriet
ISBN
9781773853840
Accession Number
P2023.07
Call Number
04.2 B64t
Collection
Archives Library
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The secret life of flies

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
McAlister, Erica
Publisher
Buffalo, New York : Firefly Books
Call Number
04.2 M11t
Author
McAlister, Erica
Publisher
Buffalo, New York : Firefly Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
248 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Insects
Flies
Entomology
Zoology
Environment
Abstract
The Secret Life of Flies takes readers into the hidden world of snail killers, con artists, crazy sex and a great many silly names. It dispels common misconceptions about flies and reveals how truly extraordinary, exotic and important are these misunderstood creatures. In clear language, McAlister explains Diptera taxonomy and forensic entomology, and describes the potential of flies to transform their relationship with humans from one of disease vector to partner in environmental preservation. She has a wonderful knack for storytelling, deftly transforming what could be dry descriptions of biology, reproduction and morphology into entertainment. She takes readers to piles of poo in Ethiopia by way of underground caves, latrines and backyard gardens, and opens the drawers at the Natural History Museum to rhapsodize over her favorite flies. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction -- The immature ones -- The pollinators -- The detritivores -- The coprophages -- The necrophages -- The vegetarians -- The fungivores -- The predators -- The parasites -- The sanguivores -- The end -- Further reading -- Index -- Picture credits -- Acknowledgements
Notes
Previously published: Richmond Hill, Ontario; Buffalo, New York: Firefly Books Ltd., 2017.
ISBN
9780228103929
Accession Number
P2024.01
Call Number
04.2 M11t
Collection
Archives Library
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Return of the bison : a story of survival, restoration, and a wilder world

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26218
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Di Silvestro, Roger L.
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Call Number
04.2 D54r
Author
Di Silvestro, Roger L.
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
254 pages : map ; 21 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Bison
Buffalo
Conservation
Environement
Zoology
Abstract
In less than a century, a bison population that once numbered in the millions and stretched across North America was reduced to just a few dozen animals primarily in Yellowstone National Park. DeSilvestro explores one of the greatest conservation comeback stories in American history-- yet its "success" is qualified. Most bison today live in commercial herds, contained like cattle. Are we willing to coexist with them as wild animals who need freedom to roam? -- Excerpt from back cover
Contents
In the beginning -- When science favors extinction -- Where buffalo roam, again: early restoration -- American bison step out of the ER -- Private herds : hopes, aspirations, roads to recovery -- Tribes : finding home -- Lost herds : Mexico and Canada -- The way of the wisent -- The last refuge -- Building a future for bison.
ISBN
9781680515831
Accession Number
P2024.01
Call Number
04.2 D54r
Collection
Archives Library
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Rare air : endangered birds, bats, butterflies, & bees

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Kaizar, Sarah and Meiser, A. Scott
Publisher
Seattle, Washington : Skipstone
Call Number
04.2 K12r
Author
Kaizar, Sarah and Meiser, A. Scott
Publisher
Seattle, Washington : Skipstone
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
149 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Zoology
Birds
Insects
Ecology
Environment
Abstract
Rare Air, the culmination of artist Sarah Kaizar's dedication to illustrating endangered fauna, features 66 endangered species of flight--33 birds, 5 bats, 12 bees, and 16 butterflies--presented in her scientifically accurate and utterly engaging pen-and-ink style. Complementing the art are informative and story-driven natural histories of each species by writer A. Scott Meiser, as well as interviews with biologists who are working to sustain some of the same species. An introduction highlights how Kaizar developed this project, while the "How to Get Involved" appendix provides helpful tips on actions readers can take to help these creatures. Kaizar's work informs readers about the world around them in a way that is beautiful and engaging, while also examining the environmental conditions that put these species at risk. Rare Air broadens the conversation about environmental study and inspires readers across the country to care for our winged creatures. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
Introduction : conservation on the wing -- Rare air species. Field feature : bird data : counts, migrations, trends -- Field feature : indigenous resource managements -- Field feature : bat conservation international -- Field feature : nurdle patrol -- Acknowledgments -- References -- How to get involved -- Species index.
ISBN
9781680515510
Accession Number
P2024.01
Call Number
04.2 K12r
Collection
Archives Library
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Butterflies of Alberta

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1993
Author
Acorn, John
Publisher
Edmonton : Lone Pine
Call Number
04.2 Ac7
Author
Acorn, John
Publisher
Edmonton : Lone Pine
Published Date
1993
Physical Description
143p. : ill., maps, ports
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Index
ISBN
1-55105-028-5
Accession Number
25500
Call Number
04.2 Ac7
Collection
Archives Library
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Alberta wildlife viewing guide

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1990
Publisher
Edmonton : Lone Pine
Call Number
04.2 Al1aw c.1
04.2 Al1aw c.2
Responsibility
joint venture involving Alberta Forestry, Lands and Wildlife, Canadian Parks Service, Federation of Alberta Naturalists [et al.]
Publisher
Edmonton : Lone Pine
Published Date
1990
Physical Description
96p. : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Banff (townsite)
Banff
Waterton Lakes National Park
Jasper
Botany
Wildlife
Accession Number
23,000 & 8227
Call Number
04.2 Al1aw c.1
04.2 Al1aw c.2
Collection
Archives Library
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Alberta fishing guide

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1976
1984
Publisher
Edmonton : Railton
Call Number
04.2 Al1f
Responsibility
compiled and researched by George Mitchell
Publisher
Edmonton : Railton
Published Date
1976
1984
Physical Description
2v
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Accession Number
8500
Call Number
04.2 Al1f
Collection
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Our wildlife legacy

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6718
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1962
Author
Allen, Durward Leon
Publisher
New York : Funk & Wagnalls
Edition
Rev ed
Call Number
04.2 Al5
Author
Allen, Durward Leon
Edition
Rev ed
Publisher
New York : Funk & Wagnalls
Published Date
1962
Physical Description
422p. : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Ecology
Accession Number
476
Call Number
04.2 Al5
Collection
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Fly-fishing the Canadian Rockies

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1987
Author
Ambrosi, Joey
Publisher
Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
04.2 Am1
Author
Ambrosi, Joey
Publisher
Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
1987
Physical Description
218p. : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Lakes
Notes
Index
ISBN
0-9690038-7-0
Call Number
04.2 Am1
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Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1962-
Author
American Fisheries Society
Call Number
04.2 Am3
Author
American Fisheries Society
Published Date
1962-
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Call Number
04.2 Am3
Collection
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Methods of collecting and perserving vertebrate animals

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6721
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1968
c1965
Author
Anderson, Rudolph Martin
Publisher
Ottawa : Queen's Printer
Edition
4th ed rev
Call Number
04.2 An2
Author
Anderson, Rudolph Martin
Edition
4th ed rev
Publisher
Ottawa : Queen's Printer
Published Date
1968
c1965
Physical Description
vii, 199p. : ill., facsim
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Notes
Library also has 2d ed., 1948
Bibliography
Accession Number
753
1037
Call Number
04.2 An2
Collection
Archives Library
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The Audubon Society field guide to North American birds : western region

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1977
Publisher
New York : Knopf
Call Number
04.2 Au2
Responsibility
Miklos D.F. Udvardy
Publisher
New York : Knopf
Published Date
1977
Physical Description
855p. : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Accession Number
10000
Call Number
04.2 Au2
Collection
Archives Library
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