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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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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Caribou rainforest : from heartbreak to hope
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25061
- 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
- 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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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Mercer, George
- Publisher
- [North Saanich, British Columbia]
- Call Number
- 05.2 Me46f
- Variant Title
- Fat cats a novel by George Mercer
- Author
- Mercer, George
- Responsibility
- George Mercer
- Publisher
- [North Saanich, British Columbia]
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 293 pages : 22 cm
- Series
- Book four in the Dyed in the green series
- Subjects
- National parks
- Cougars
- Wildlife
- Wardens
- Fiction
- Abstract
- "When a cougar shows up in British Columbia's Gulf Islands National Park Reserve, Park Warden John Haffcut sees it as an opportunity to deal with the overabundance of deer that have transformed the islands into an ecological hodgepodge. Foiled by landowners with a not-in-my-backyard attitude and a notorious cougar-tracker intent on making away with the cat, John decides to take matters into his own hands, putting his career and the cougar's future in jeapordy" - back cover
- ISBN
- 978-0-9879754-6-1
- Accession Number
- p2019-22
- Call Number
- 05.2 Me46f
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Pipestone wolves : the rise and fall of a wolf family
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15277
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Bloch, Gunther
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04.2 B62p
- Author
- Bloch, Gunther
- Responsibility
- Text: Gunther Bloch
- Photography: John E. Marriott
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 223 pages, illustrations (colour)
- ISBN
- 9781771601603
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 05
- Call Number
- 04.2 B62p
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- Archives Library
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A Canadian wildlife poem
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15267
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Elliot, Max
- Publisher
- Banff : Max Elliott
- Call Number
- 05.1 El5c
- Author
- Elliot, Max
- Publisher
- Banff : Max Elliott
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 22 pages
- ISBN
- 9780993722806
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 05
- Call Number
- 05.1 El5c
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- Archives Library
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