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MOUNTAINS TO METROPOLIS : the elbow river watershed
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25262
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Coleman, Diane
- Publisher
- [Place of publication not identified], FRIESENPRESS
- Call Number
- 03.5 C67m
- 03.5 C67m reference copy
1 website
- Author
- Coleman, Diane
- Responsibility
- Diane Coleman
- Publisher
- [Place of publication not identified], FRIESENPRESS
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 261 pages
- Subjects
- Rivers
- Water
- Watersheds
- Hydrology
- Hydrology - Alberta
- Abstract
- Every watershed has a story: this is the Elbow’s. The Elbow River watershed is a small yet significant watershed extending from the Front Ranges of the Rocky Mountains to downtown Calgary. This geographical watershed is itself at a metaphorical watershed, due to increasing pressure for urban, industrial and recreational development which will alter the healthy functioning of its interdependent parts. Mountains to Metropolis combines the author’s own explorations in the watershed with comprehensive background information to place the reader in the watershed itself. Grizzly bears and mule deer, park wardens and cowboys, First Nations and first settlers, range cattle and coyotes, urbanites and beavers, city engineers and soldiers, Grey Nuns and missionaries – all are part of this watershed’s story. And each has shaped and been shaped by the physical and spiritual power of the river at the watershed’s core. While legislators, municipal managers, industry and residents all have a responsibility for making our watershed happy and healthy, in the end it comes down to the individual. The author lays out simple actions that we each can take in our daily lives. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introductions -- Part 1. In the high mountains -- Part 2. The Foothills between -- Part 3. To plains and metropolis -- Part 4. Whither the Elbow -- Appendices: 1. Historical timeline: Elbow River watershed and region ; 2. Scientific names.
- ISBN
- 9781460271155
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- 2024.26
- Call Number
- 03.5 C67m
- 03.5 C67m reference copy
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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Glacier Catchment
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbue.18.06
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.06
1 image
- Title
- Glacier Catchment
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Dimensions
- 121.92 x 162.56 cm
- Credit
- Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.06
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Mount Edziza #1
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbue.18.11
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.11
1 image
- Title
- Mount Edziza #1
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Dimensions
- 153.4 x 203.2 cm
- Subject
- water
- Mount Edziza
- mountain
- snow
- Credit
- Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.11
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Mount Edziza #2
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbue.18.12
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.12
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- Title
- Mount Edziza #2
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Dimensions
- 153.4 x 203.2 cm
- Subject
- water
- Mount Edziza
- mountain
- British Columbia
- Credit
- Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.12
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Mount Edziza #3
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbue.18.13
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.13
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- Title
- Mount Edziza #3
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Dimensions
- 121.9 x 162.6 cm
- Subject
- water
- Mount Edziza
- mountain
- British Columbia
- Credit
- Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.13
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Mount Edziza #4
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifactbue.18.14
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.14
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- Title
- Mount Edziza #4
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Dimensions
- 121.9 x 162.6 cm
- Subject
- water
- Mount Edziza
- mountain
- British Columbia
- Credit
- Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.14
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- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.20
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- Title
- Stikine River
- Date
- 2012
- Medium
- photograph on board
- Dimensions
- 121.9 x 162.6 cm
- Subject
- water
- Stikine River
- British Columbia
- Credit
- Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014
- Catalogue Number
- BuE.18.20
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Protect the source : on June 20, southern Alberta changed
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20019
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Elmeligi, Sarah
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Elmeligi, Sarah
- Responsibility
- Sarah Elmeligi
- Published Date
- 2014
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Floods
- Forestry
- Water
- Watersheds
- Abstract
- Pertians to the cause of the 2013 floods in southern Alberta as they relate to poor forestry practices.
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol. 6, Iss. 1, Winter 2014, p. 46 - 50
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Highline website
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Where rivers meet : photographs and stories from the Bow Valley and the Kananaskis
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25282
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Legault, Stephen
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB
- Call Number
- 03.5 L46w
1 website
- Author
- Legault, Stephen
- Responsibility
- Stephen Legault
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 208 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps
- Subjects
- Hydrology
- Hydrology - Alberta
- Rivers
- Water
- Watersheds
- Bow River Basin
- Spray River
- Highwood Pass
- Maps
- Photography
- Abstract
- Until the 1980s, Kananaskis Country, the Bow Valley and Canmore were places most people drove past on their way to Ban National Park, Lake Louise, Jasper and points beyond. Today, Kananaskis Country gets more than three million visitors a year, and Canmore is a town twice the size of Banff. Encompassing a dizzying array of natural environments, from grasslands and foothills to deep mountain valleys and sweeping alpine vistas, Kananaskis Country and the Bow Valley attract visitors from around the world each year to this mountain paradise. Calgarians consider this landscape to be their backyard and they turn to it for recreation, solace and wilderness adventure. Where Rivers Meet will bring the beauty and wonder of this profound landscape and its wild creatures to visitors from around the world and local residents alike. This artistically designed coffee table book features over 200 black and white and colour images together with short essays and personal reflections on natural history, geology, the cultural background and the region’s communities, as well as the threats and solutions to development and social challenges found throughout Kananaskis Country and the Bow Valley. (From publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Bow Valley
- The Spray Valley
- The Kananaskis Valley
- The Highwood/Cataract
- The Elbow and Sheep Rivers
- Oz-ada Imne
- Epilogue: A love song
- Gratitude
- About the author
- Maps
- ISBN
- 9781771602396
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.5 L46w
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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Our vanishing glaciers : the snows of yesteryear and the future climate of the mountain West
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25256
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W.
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 03.4 Sa5o
1 website
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W.
- Responsibility
- Robert W. Sandford
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 223 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color)
- Subjects
- Water
- Watersheds
- Rivers
- Glaciers
- Hydrology
- Hydrology - Alberta
- Rocky Mountains
- Climate change
- Abstract
- Written by one of the most respected experts in water and water-associated climate science and featuring stunning photography collected over the past four decades, Our Vanishing Glaciers explains and illustrates why water is such a unique substance and how it makes life on this planet possible. Focusing on the Columbia Icefield, the largest and most accessible mass of ice straddling the Continental Divide in western North America, and featuring photographs, illustrations, aerial surveys and thermal imaging collected over more than 40 years of the author’s personal observations, the book reveals the stunning magnitude of glacial ice in western Canada. Citing evidence to suggest that in the Canadian Rocky Mountain national parks alone, as many as 300 glaciers may have disappeared since 1920, this large-format, fully illustrated coffee table book graphically illustrates the projected rate of glacier recession in the mountain West over the rest of this century and serves as a profound testament to the beauty and importance of western Canada’s water, ice and snow. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- 1. The wonder of water -- 2. What winter does to water -- 3. Ecology as defined by winter water -- 4. How ice fields and glaciers form -- 5. Canada's most accessible glaciers -- 6. The death of Peyto glacier : A case for more comprehensive -- 7. The Columbia ice field today -- 8. Glaciers in a changing climate -- 9. What we stand to lose -- 10. Water, climate and the National Parks ideal.
- Notes
- Winner, 2017 Lane Anderson Award for Best Canadian Science Writing
- ISBN
- 9781771602020
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 03.4 Sa5o
- Location
- Reading Room
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- Archives Library
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