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Cold matters : the state and fate of Canada's fresh water

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14191
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2012
Author
Sandford, Robert William
Publisher
Victoria [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
03.5 Sa5wat c.1
03.5 Sa5wat c.2
Author
Sandford, Robert William
Responsibility
Robert William Sandford
Publisher
Victoria [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2012
Physical Description
xiii, 256 p. : col. ill., col. maps, ports.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Continental Divide
Banff National Park
Jasper National Park
Kananaskis
Glaciers
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN
9781927330197
Accession Number
13-7-1 70,500
P2015-03-31
Call Number
03.5 Sa5wat c.1
03.5 Sa5wat c.2
Collection
Archives Library
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Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
Date
2012
Medium
photograph on board
Catalogue Number
BuE.18.06
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Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
Title
Glacier Catchment
Date
2012
Medium
photograph on board
Dimensions
121.92 x 162.56 cm
Subject
water
glacier
Credit
Gift of Edward Burtynsky, Toronto, 2014
Catalogue Number
BuE.18.06
Images
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Heart waters : sources of the Bow River

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25255
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2015
Author
Van Tighem, Kevin
Van Tighem, Brian
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
Edition
First
Call Number
03.5 V26h
  1 website  
Author
Van Tighem, Kevin
Van Tighem, Brian
Responsibility
Kevin Van Tighem (author)
Brian Van Tighem (photographer)
Edition
First
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
256 pages : colour illustrations, colour maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Watersheds
Rivers
Glaciers
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Bow River
Abstract
Water does not come from the river. It comes to the river. Heart Waters takes us to the sources of that water – and into the living beauty, human stories and future possibilities that also arise from the green uplands and valleys of Alberta’s Eastern Slopes, where the mighty Bow River is born. For more than a century the foothills and Front Range mountains of western Alberta have been recognized as being vital to the water supply for western Canada. Virtually all the water that sustains communities, ecosystems and the economy of prairie Canada comes from this narrow strip of land arrayed along the Continental Divide. For all its importance, however, water management decisions affecting this enormous region have ignored the significance of land health and focused almost exclusively on building dams. The result, as the author points out, is that the Bow River’s annual flows have decreased by more than a tenth, even as spring floods become more frequent and more destructive. The solutions to prairie Canada’s water challenges lie in healing the wounded landscapes of our headwaters. Heart Waters delves deeply into the history and ecology of a landscape whose critical value as a watershed is matched by its sheer beauty and diversity. A rich array of stunning images by Jasper-based photographer Brian Van Tighem complements the author’s well-researched explorations of the stories whispered by the living waters that drain from Banff National Park, Kananaskis Country and the famous ranchlands of the Bow River watershed. Kevin Van Tighem’s latest book is a deep exploration of place and an invitation to recognize that our water future depends upon knowing our headwaters better and caring for them more passionately — as our heart waters. (from publisher's website)
Contents
1. Voices in the water -- 2. River origins: Bow River -- 3. A prodigal's return: Johnson Creek -- 4. Caterpillars and cutthroats: Quirk Creek -- 5. The past and future trout: Meadow Creek -- 6. Lake of the spirits: Cascade River and Ghost River -- 7. Dammed splendor: Kananaskis River -- 8. Buck-toothed volunteers: Bateman Creek -- 9. The under-river: Middle Bow River -- 10. Water and wildness: Sheep River -- 11. Cattle in the creek: Pekisko Creek -- 12. Mountains breathing: Highwood River -- 13. Healing the headwaters -- 14. Home and heart waters -- Index.
Notes
Shortlisted for the 2016 Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival award for Mountain & Wilderness Literature
ISBN
9781771601399
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
03.5 V26h
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
Date
2012
Medium
photograph on board
Catalogue Number
BuE.18.11
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Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
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
Images
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Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
Date
2012
Medium
photograph on board
Catalogue Number
BuE.18.12
  1 image  
Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
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
Images
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Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
Date
2012
Medium
photograph on board
Catalogue Number
BuE.18.13
  1 image  
Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
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
Images
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Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
Date
2012
Medium
photograph on board
Catalogue Number
BuE.18.14
  1 image  
Artist
Edward Burtynsky (1955 – , Canadian)
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
Images
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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
  1 website  
Author
Coleman, Diane
Responsibility
Diane Coleman
Publisher
[Place of publication not identified], FRIESENPRESS
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
261 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Call Number
03.5 C67m
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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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)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Planning for the next big storm

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue514
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
2018
Author
Symynuk, Amanda
Publisher
In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
Call Number
P
Author
Symynuk, Amanda
Editor
Ward, Meghan J.
Publisher
In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
p.18-19
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Water
Glaciers
Kananaskis
Floods
Abstract
From snowmelt to stream flows: scientists are using new technology to study how water moves through the landscape
Language
English
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
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