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Finding the line - conventional wisdome warns that a warming climate has the potential to push treeline upslope, ultimately edging the alpine zone off the mountaintop. Recent studies, however, give a more hopeful picture. Is the alpine zone more resilient than once thought?

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25146
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2020
Author
Malotky, Birch
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
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Author
Malotky, Birch
Responsibility
Birch Malotky
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2020
Physical Description
p.56 - 61
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Trees
Abstract
Pertains to the repercussions of climate change on treelines in alpine zones.
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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Plight of the Whitebark Pine

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19818
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
May 2019
Author
Los, Fraser
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Call Number
P
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Author
Los, Fraser
Publisher
Crowfoot Media
Published Date
May 2019
Physical Description
p.22-23
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Conservation
Revelstoke
Glacier National Park
Trees
Parks Canada
Abstract
Pertains to a collaborative project with Parks Canada as part of a country-wide Conservation and and Restoration program to create white pine blister rust resistant Whitebark Pines to replant in their natural ranges in Glacier National Park and Mount Revelstoke National Park.
Notes
In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.04, May 2019
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
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The hidden life of trees : what they feel, how they communicate : discoveries from a secret world

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25271
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2016
Author
Wohlleeben, Peter
Billinghurst, Jane
Publisher
Vancouver, BC, Canada : David Suzuki Institute ; Vancouver, BC, Canada ; Berkeley : Greystone Books Ltd
Call Number
04.1 W81t
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Author
Wohlleeben, Peter
Billinghurst, Jane
Responsibility
Peter Wohlleeben (author)
Jane Billinghurst (translator)
Publisher
Vancouver, BC, Canada : David Suzuki Institute ; Vancouver, BC, Canada ; Berkeley : Greystone Books Ltd
Published Date
2016
Physical Description
xv, 272 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Environment
Environmental conservation
Trees
Conservation
Conservation areas
Abstract
Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland. After learning about the complex life of trees, a walk in the woods will never be the same again. Includes a Note From a Forest Scientist, by Dr.Suzanne Simard (from publisher's website)
Contents
Foreword / by Tim Flannery -- Introduction to the English edition -- Introduction -- Friendships -- The language of trees -- Social security -- Love -- The tree lottery -- Slowly does it -- Forest etiquette -- Tree school -- United we stand, divided we fall -- The mysteries of moving water -- Trees aging gracefully -- Mighty oak or mighty wimp? -- Specialists -- Tree or not tree? -- In the realm of darkness -- Carbon dioxide vacuums -- Woody climate control -- The forest as water pump -- Yours or mine? -- Community housing projects -- Mother ships of biodiversity -- Hibernation -- A sense of time -- A question of character -- The sick tree -- Let there be light -- Street kids -- Burnout -- Destination north! -- Tough customers -- Turbulent times -- Immigrants -- Healthy forest air -- Why is the forest green? -- Set free -- More than just a commodity -- Note from a forest scientist / by Dr. Suzanne Simard.
ISBN
9781771642484
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
04.1 W81t
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
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Artist
Colin Smith (1963 – , Canadian)
Date
2015
Medium
camera obscura on acid-free fibre paper
Catalogue Number
SmC.18.01
Description
coloured image of boler interior. yellows, greens and blues colour the walls with a projected image of the exterior surroundings. two windows appear to show the exterior landscape. landscape is a wooded area full of poplar trees and some evergreens. interior furniture includes two benches, fold dow…
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Artist
Colin Smith (1963 – , Canadian)
Title
Poplar Boler
Date
2015
Medium
camera obscura on acid-free fibre paper
Dimensions
121.92 x 152.4 cm
Description
coloured image of boler interior. yellows, greens and blues colour the walls with a projected image of the exterior surroundings. two windows appear to show the exterior landscape. landscape is a wooded area full of poplar trees and some evergreens. interior furniture includes two benches, fold down table and box in bottom right corner. the reflected image on the walls is projected upside down because it is done using a camera obscura technique. this print belongs to the 76 Boler series. “Nearly true stories of a wandering 76 Boler”
Subject
trees
boler
poplar
camera obscura;
Credit
Gift of Colin Smith , Calgary , 2018
Catalogue Number
SmC.18.01
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Trees
Labour
Ecology
Industry
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
URL Notes
Publisher's website
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The insatiable bark beetle

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13986
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2011
Author
Halter, Reese
Publisher
Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
04.2 H16i
Author
Halter, Reese
Responsibility
Dr. Reese Halter
Publisher
Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2011
Physical Description
161 p. ; 19 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Trees
Entomology
Environmental conservation
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
ISBN
9781926855660
Accession Number
60,500 11-11-29
Call Number
04.2 H16i
Collection
Archives Library
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The collector : David Douglas and the natural history of the Northwest

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13949
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2009
Author
Nisbet, Jack
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books ; [New York, NY] : Distributed by PGW/Perseus
Call Number
04.1 D65n
Author
Nisbet, Jack
Responsibility
Jack Nisbet
Publisher
Seattle, WA : Sasquatch Books ; [New York, NY] : Distributed by PGW/Perseus
Published Date
2009
Physical Description
xiii, 290 p. : maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Trees
Exploration
Biography
ISBN
ISBN: 9781570616136
Accession Number
60,000 2010-12-17
Call Number
04.1 D65n
Collection
Archives Library
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Drawing from the mountain : an illustrated journey

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24999
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2006
Author
Perry, Lorne
Publisher
Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
Edition
1st ed.
Call Number
06.1 P41d
Author
Perry, Lorne
Responsibility
Lorne Perry
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2006
Physical Description
141 p. : ill., ports.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Art
Trees
Flora
Flowers
Geology
Wildlife
Mountaineering
Equipment
Biography
Mountains
Rocky Mountains
Photography
Wilderness
Travel
Abstract
Pertains to art created by Lorne Perry during
Contents
Prologue
Beginning with trees
The limstone triangle
A fine kind of madness
"Real good" stories
Lords of the dance
The power of one
Flesh and blood
The gift
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Notes
Signed by Lorne Perry
ISBN
9781894765817
Accession Number
2019.110
Call Number
06.1 P41d
Collection
Archives Library
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The tree collector : the life and explorations of David Douglas

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13945
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2005
Author
Mitchell, Ann Lindsay
Publisher
London : Aurum
Call Number
04.1 D65l
Author
Mitchell, Ann Lindsay
Responsibility
Ann Lindsay and Syd House
Publisher
London : Aurum
Published Date
2005
Physical Description
x, 245 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Trees
Biography
Exploration
ISBN
ISBN: 1845130529
Accession Number
60,000 2010-12-17
Call Number
04.1 D65l
Collection
Archives Library
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Trees and shrubs in winter : a guide to the identification of common trees and shrubs in Northwestern British Columbia

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26226
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2003
Author
Pojar, Rosamund
Publisher
Smithers, BC : Cassiope Press
Smithers, BC : Creekstone Press
Call Number
04.1 P75t 2003
04.1 P75t 2010
Author
Pojar, Rosamund
Responsibility
Illustrations by Evi Coulson
Publisher
Smithers, BC : Cassiope Press
Smithers, BC : Creekstone Press
Published Date
2003
Physical Description
153 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Trees
Coniferous
Deciduous
Evergreen
Botany
Plants
Science
British Columbia
Contents
Introduction -- Key to sections -- Key to coniferous trees -- Key #1 to deciduous trees (shrubby form) -- Key #2 to deciduous trees (mature) -- Key to deciduous shrubs (or small trees) with alternate buds -- Key to evergreen shrubs -- Additional trees and shrubs that occur in the northern interior and northern coastal regions of British Columbia -- Glossary.
Notes
Ben Gadd Personal Library
ISBN
097335920
9780978319533
Accession Number
2021.20
Call Number
04.1 P75t 2003
04.1 P75t 2010
Collection
Archives Library
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