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Canadian animals for kids

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26184
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Elliot, Max
Publisher
Banff, AB : Summerthought
Call Number
05 El6c
05 El6c Reference copy
Author
Elliot, Max
Publisher
Banff, AB : Summerthought
Published Date
2023
Physical Description
24 pages ; ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Literature
Children
Animals
Wildlife
Abstract
How does a beaver warn of danger? What's the advantage of being a tiny wood frog? Where do walruses like to live? Kids love to learn about wildlife, and the colours and textures of Max Elliot's mixed media artwork make it even more fun to engage with a variety of Canadian animals, their habits and habitats. -- From back cover.
ISBN
9781926983615
Accession Number
P2023.17 (2)
Call Number
05 El6c
05 El6c Reference copy
Collection
Archives Library
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Brave like the buffalo

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26206
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2023
Author
Allan, Melissa
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
07.2 Al5b
07.2 Al5b reference copy
Author
Allan, Melissa
Responsibility
Illustrated by Jadyn Fischer-McNab
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2023
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Children
Buffalo
Wildlife
Indigenous
Indigenous People
Cree
Abstract
Brave Like the Buffalo is a children’s book with a message that will inspire all readers to face the storms in their life with the help of their support systems and with a brave mindset. Baby buffalo is surprised and scared when a storm on the prairies passes through. Mama buffalo puts on a brave face and demonstrates how to use courage and bravery to get through the literal and metaphorical storms we may face in life. Written by Melissa Allan and illustrated by Cree illustrator Jadyn Fischer-McNab, this story uses a powerful animal, the buffalo, as a symbolic message and connection to Indigenous ways of knowing and being that helps to create a wonderful narrative rich with Indigenous ties and a heartwarming message around facing adversity. Brave Like the Buffalo is intended for audiences aged 4-8, to be used educationally as a way to intertwine Indigenous ways of knowing and being through story. -- From publisher
ISBN
9781771606448
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
07.2 Al5b
07.2 Al5b reference copy
Location
Reference copy located in Reading Room
Collection
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Wildlife
Wildlife management
Conservation
Animals
Alberta
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
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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
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In the name of wild : one family, five years, ten countries, and a new vision of wildness

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25721
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Vannini, Phillip and April
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press
Call Number
02 V33i
Author
Vannini, Phillip and April
Responsibility
With Autumn Vannini
Publisher
Vancouver ; Toronto : On Point Press, an imprint of UBC Press
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
xii, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Travel
Wilderness
Wildlife
Canada
Europe
Japan
Iceland
New Zealand
Patagonia
Abstract
Five continents. Ten countries. Twenty Natural World Heritage sites in five years. In the Name of Wild is the story of what happened when one family set out to learn what wildness means to people around the world. What draws us to seek out wild places? Do they mean the same to everyone? Part travelogue, part ethnography, this book takes us on a journey into the lives of the people who call places such as Tasmania, Patagonia, and Iceland home. They reveal that wildness isn't about the absence of people. It's about connections, kinship, and coexistence with the land. -- Provided by publisher.
Contents
"Wild" can be a challenging word: Galápagos -- "Wild" can be an adjective: Tasmania -- Wild can be ephemeral: Aotearoa-New Zealand -- Wild can change: South Tyrol -- Wild can be reimagined: Belize -- Wild can be a foreign concept: Japan -- Wild can be alive: Patagonia -- Wild can be photogenic: Iceland -- Wildlife can be us: Thailand -- Wild can be someone's home: Canada.
ISBN
9780774890403
Accession Number
P2023.11
Call Number
02 V33i
Collection
Archives Library
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Trout tracks : essays on fly fishing

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26208
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
McLennan, Jim
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
02.8 M22t
Author
McLennan, Jim
Responsibility
Illustrations by Lynda McLennan
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
235 pages ; 20 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Fly fishing
Fishing
Recreation
Sport
Water
Fish
Wildlife
Abstract
A new collection of outdoor writing from one of fly fishing’s most popular essayists. Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read fly-fishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea. Fly fishing is considered perhaps the most reflective and graceful of outdoor pursuits, and author Jim McLennan agrees – for the most part. Trout Tracks includes pieces on fly-fishing people and fly-fishing places, plus stories of quiet successes and loud failures, in sum revealing the soul of “the quiet sport.” You won’t learn from this book how to cast farther or tie a knot faster, but if you’ve ever fly fished – or if you want to – you’ll smile and understand more clearly the seduction of wild trout in wild places. -- From publisher
Contents
1. Places -- 2. Bugs, real and fake -- 3. How -- 4. Navel gazing -- 5. The silly side -- 6. At the water -- 7. People 8. Aging (gracefully, more or less).
ISBN
9781771603652
Accession Number
P2023.25
Call Number
02.8 M22t
Collection
Archives Library
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High-altitude inhabitants - the mountain summits we strive for are, at first glance, barren. Yet high-altitude species of the Rockies call these steep slopes "home". We tapped into the knowledge of naturalist Ben Gadd to spotlight six alpine dwellers that thrive where it seems nothing could survive

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25138
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Recompsat, Juliette
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Recompsat, Juliette
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.28 - 29
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Rocky Mountains
Altitude
Marmots
Wolverines
Wildlife
Flora
Lichens
Snow fleas
Abstract
Pertains to six high-altitude species in Alberta - hoary marmot, wolverine, dwarf alpine hawksbeard, thamnolia lichen, snow flea and boulderfield spider
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
Websites
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All-time high - an unprecedented number of visitors are heading to Banff National Park, with a million more tourists passing through the gates in just the last five years. Has the beloved park reached its limits?

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25147
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Stewart, Ryan
Odynski, Taylor
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Stewart, Ryan
Odynski, Taylor
Responsibility
Ryan Stewart (author)
Taylor Odynski (illustrator)
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.70 - 75
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Tourism
Ecology
Environment
Banff National Park
Wildlife
Town of Banff
Parks Canada
Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to the rise in visitation to Banff National Park
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
Websites
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With the Maligne herd gone ... Jasper's caribou crisis deepens

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25214
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2020
Author
Campbell, Carolyn
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Campbell, Carolyn
Responsibility
Carolyn Campbell
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
pg. 7 - 8
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Caribou
Maligne Lake
Jasper National Park
Wildlife
Wildlife corridors
Wildlife management
Foothills
Parks Canada
Abstract
Pertains to the extirpation of the Maligne caribou herd in Jasper National Park. Outlines the ongoing issues leading to extirpation and calls for immediate action to stop extinction
Notes
In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.3, September 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Digital copy available
Websites
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Alberta caribou work continues while B.C. puts agreements in place

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25215
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2020
Author
Campbell, Carolyn
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Call Number
P
  1 website  
Author
Campbell, Carolyn
Responsibility
Carolyn Campbell
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
pg. 12
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Caribou
Wildlife
Wildlife corridors
Wildlife management
First Nations
Alberta
British Columbia
Abstract
Pertains to updates on agreements Alberta and British Columbia are creating to protect extirpated caribou herds in both provinces and legal cases put forward by environmental groups and First Nations including Ecojustice, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Mikisew Cree First Nation, David Suzuki Foundation. Other communities involved with caribou management plans including Cold Lake First Nation, Saulteau First Nations, West Moberly First Nations
Notes
In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.3, September 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Digital copy available
Websites
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