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Canadians and the natural environment to the twenty-first century
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25269
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Forkey, Neil S.
- Publisher
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press
- Call Number
- 04 F74c
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- Author
- Forkey, Neil S.
- Responsibility
- Neil S. Forkey
- Publisher
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 157 pages
- Abstract
- Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an ideal foundation for undergraduates and general readers on the history of Canada's complex environmental issues. Through clear, easy-to-understand case studies, Neil Forkey integrates the ongoing interplay of humans and the natural world into national, continental, and global contexts. Forkey's engaging survey addresses significant episodes from across the country over the past four hundred years: the classification of Canada's environments by its earliest inhabitants, the relationship between science and sentiment in the Victorian era, the shift towards conservation and preservation of resources in the early twentieth century, and the rise of environmentalism and issues involving First Nations at the end of the century. Canadians and the Natural Environment to the Twenty-First Century provides an accessible synthesis of the most important recent work in the field, making it a truly state-of-the-art contribution to Canadian environmental history (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction -- The classification of Canada's environments (1600s to early 1900s) -- Natural resources, economic growth, and the need for conservation (1800s and 1900s) -- Romanticism and the preservation of nature (1800s and 1900s) -- Environmentalism (1950s to 2000s) -- Aboriginal Canadians and natural resources : an overview -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9780802090225
- Accession Number
- P2020.08
- Call Number
- 04 F74c
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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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
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- Publisher's website
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Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19920
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
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- Author
- Lewis-Jones, Huw
- Herbert, Kari
- Responsibility
- Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 320 p. : illus. (colour)
- Abstract
- The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Introduction
- The sketchbooks
- Biographies
- Selected reading
- Illustration credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"
- ISBN
- 9780452158273
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- N L49 E97
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Treasures of the trail : a nature guide to Edworthy Park, Lawrey Gardens and the Douglas Fir Trail
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20078
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2002
- Author
- Osborn, Jerry
- The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
- Publisher
- Calgary : Edworthy Park Heritage Society
- Call Number
- 04 O1t
1 website
- Responsibility
- Jerry Osborn
- The Edworthy Park Heritage Society
- Publisher
- Calgary : Edworthy Park Heritage Society
- Published Date
- 2002
- Physical Description
- 164 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports.
- Subjects
- Botany
- Wildlife
- Archaeology
- History
- History of Alberta
- Maps
- Ecology
- Calgary
- Calgary, Alberta
- Walking
- Tours
- Guidebook
- Guidebooks
- Trails
- Abstract
- Pertains to Edworthy Park in Calgary, Alberta, including the geology, paleontology, plant life, animal life, insect life, archaeology, Indigenous Peoples history, settler history and maps of walks which include plant and bird checklists. The three brick plants that operated in what is now Edworthy Park: Burnvale, Brickburn, Tregillus Clay Products were used to construct many buildings in Banff.
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Geology and Paleontology
- Plant Life
- Animal Life
- Butterflies
- Archaeology and Native Culture
- History
- Park Map
- Walk One - Wester Plateau of Edworthy Park
- Walk Two - Brickburn and the Pond Lookout Trail
- Walk Three - Edworthy Park Riverside
- Walk Four - Douglas Fire Trail West
- Walk Five - Quarry Road Trail, Lawrey Gardens, and Douglas Fire Trail East
- Appendix One - Plant Checklist
- Appendix Two - Bird Checklist
- Contributors
- Further Reading
- Index of Photos
- Notes
- Brick information as per Ann Jones conversation with Lena Goon.
- ISBN
- 0973176105
- Accession Number
- 2014.8268
- Call Number
- 04 O1t
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- City of Calgary website re: Edworthy Park location and trail maps
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What bears teach us
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25253
- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- Publisher's website
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