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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
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- 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
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Blood memory : the tragic decline and improbable resurrection of the American Buffalo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26204
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Duncan, Dayton and Burns, Ken
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf
- Call Number
- 08 D91b
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- xvi, 329 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Buffalo
- Pablo-Allard buffalo round-up
- Conservation
- Indigenous
- Colonialism
- Environment
- Ecology
- Abstract
- The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today--a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo--our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass extinction that erased ancient species that were even larger. For nearly 10,000 years, they evolved alongside Native people who weaved them into every aspect of daily life; relied on them for food, clothing, and shelter; and revered them as equals. Newcomers to the continent found the buffalo fascinating at first, but in time they came to consider them a hindrance to a young nation's expansion. And in the space of only a decade they were slaughtered by the millions for their hides, with their carcasses left to rot on the prairies. Then, teetering on the brink of disappearing from the face of the earth, they would be rescued by a motley collection of Americans, each of them driven by different--and sometimes competing--impulses. This is the rich and complicated story of a young republic's heedless rush to conquer a continent, but also of the dawn of the conservation era--a story of America at its very best and worst -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Part 1: The Trail to Extinction -- The Buffalo and the People -- Strangers -- Omen in the Skies -- The Iron Horse -- Kills Tomorrow -- Part 2: Back From the Brink -- A Death Wind for My People -- Just in the Nick of Time -- Changes of Heart -- Ghosts -- The Last Refuge -- Blood Memory -- Big Medicine.
- Notes
- Dayton Duncan ; based on a documentary film by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan ; with an introduction by Ken Burns ; picture research by Emily Mosher and Susan Shumaker ; design by Maggie Hinders.
- Whyte Museum archival collections utilized.
- ISBN
- 9780593537343
- Accession Number
- P2023.25
- Call Number
- 08 D91b
- Collection
- Archives Library
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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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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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If this tree could talk : what fire-scarred trees in the Rocky Mountain Trench reveal about the human use of burning long before European settlement
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15249
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Barnes, Trish
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2016
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Barnes, Trish
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2016
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- p.20-21
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Accession Number
- P2016 - 73,000 - 05
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- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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If this tree could talk : what fire-scarred trees in the Rocky Mountain Trench reveal about the human use of burning long before European settlement
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15400
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Barnes, Trish
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2017
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Barnes, Trish
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol. 1, 2017
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- p.20-21
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Accession Number
- P2017 - 73,000 - 05
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- P
- 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
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- Archives Library
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Rare air : endangered birds, bats, butterflies, & bees
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26220
- 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
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Skipstone
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 149 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- 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
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- Archives Library
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Uncommon ground : rethinking the human place in nature
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1452
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1995
- Author
- Cronon, William
- Publisher
- New York ; London : W.W. Norton and Company
- Call Number
- 04 C88u
- Author
- Cronon, William
- Responsibility
- edited by William Cronon
- Publisher
- New York ; London : W.W. Norton and Company
- Published Date
- 1995
- Physical Description
- 561 pages : illustrations, map
- Subjects
- Nature
- Environment
- Ecology
- Abstract
- Pertains to national parks, specifically Yosemite and Mount Rushmore.
- Contents
- Beginnings -- In search of nature / William Cronon -- Paradise Lost and Found -- The trouble with wilderness; or, Getting back to the wrong nature / William Cronon -- Constructing nature: the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted / Anne Whiston Spirn -- Amazonia as Edenic narrative / Candace Slater -- Reinventing Eden: western culture as a recovery narrative / Carolyn Merchant -- At Work and Play -- "Are you an environmentalist or do you work for a living?" : work and nature / Richard White -- Looking for nature at the mall: a field guide to the Nature Company / Jennifer Price -- "Touch the magic" / Susan G. Davis -- Contested Terrains -- Ecological fragmentation in the fifties / Michael G. Barbour -- On the search for a root cause: essentialist tendencies in environmental discourse / Jeffrey C. Ellis -- Whose nature? : the contested moral terrain of ancient forests / James D. Proctor -- Nature as community: the convergence of environment and social justice / Giovanna Di Chiro -- Universal donors in a vampire culture: it's all in the family, biological kinship categories in the twentieth-century United States / Donna J. Haraway -- Common Places -- Reinventing common nature: Yosemite and Mount Rushmore, a meandering tale of a double nature / Kenneth R. Olwig -- Simulated nature and natural simulations: rethinking the relation between the beholder and the world / N. Katherine Hayles -- Toward a philosophy of nature / Robert P. Harrison -- Partings -- Toward a conclusion.
- ISBN
- 0-393-31511-8 pbk
- Accession Number
- 2019.01
- Call Number
- 04 C88u
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- Archives Library
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The use of repeat photos to evaluate long-term vegetation change and land management in south-central Utah (draft) - executive summary
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14491
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- January 2001
- Author
- Kay, Charles E. and Natural Resource Policy Associate Institute of Polictical Economy
- Call Number
- 04 K18u Pam
- Published Date
- January 2001
- Physical Description
- 25 pages and illustrations
- Subjects
- Development
- Ecology
- Environment
- Land use
- United States
- Notes
- Draft and Executive Summary - discusses range conditions, soil erosion, stream conditions, oil, gas and mining development, and invasive species.
- Call Number
- 04 K18u Pam
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- Archives Library
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