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Alberta's trout streams : victims of conflicting interests
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue8860
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Cunningham, E. B
- Call Number
- 04 C91 Pam
- Author
- Cunningham, E. B
- Physical Description
- p.123-126 : ill
- Notes
- From Canadian Audubon, vol.28, no.4, September-October 1966
- Call Number
- 04 C91 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24934
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
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- Author
- Schindler, D.W.
- Donahue, W.F.
- Responsibility
- D.W. Schindler
- W.F. Donahue
- Publisher
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 6 pages ; illustrations , maps
- Abstract
- Canada is usually considered to be a country with abundant freshwater, but in its western prairie provinces (WPP), an area 1/5 the size of Europe, freshwater is scarce. European settlement of the WPP did not begin until the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Fortuitously, the period since European settlement appears to have been the wettest century of the past two millennia. The frequent, long periods of drought that characterized earlier centuries of the past two millennia were largely absent in the 20th century. Here, we show that climate warming and human modifications to catchments have already significantly reduced the flows of major rivers of the WPP during the summer months, when human demand and in-stream flow needs are greatest. We predict that in the near future climate warming, via its effects on glaciers, snowpacks, and evaporation, will combine with cyclic drought and rapidly increasing human activity in the WPP to cause a crisis in water quantity and quality with far-reaching implications.
- Notes
- In PNAS May 9, 2006 103 (19) 7210-7216
- Call Number
- 03.5 Sc1a PAM
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- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available online via PNAS's website
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Brooymans, Hanneke
- Call Number
- 03.6 B79c Pam
- Author
- Brooymans, Hanneke
- Physical Description
- p.43-48 : ill., map
- Subjects
- Coalbed methane
- Environment
- Water
- Notes
- In Alberta Views, vol. 7, no.4 (July / August 2004)
- Call Number
- 03.6 B79c Pam
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Cold matters : the state and fate of Canada's fresh water
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14191
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- 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.
- 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
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Crisis on the Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5712
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1968
- Author
- Bullard, Oral
- Publisher
- Portland (OR) : Touchstone
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Call Number
- 03.6 B87
- Author
- Bullard, Oral
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- Portland (OR) : Touchstone
- Published Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- 151p. : ill., maps
- Accession Number
- 1000
- Call Number
- 03.6 B87
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Denying the source : the crisis of First Nations water rights
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14185
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Phare, Merrell-Ann
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 04 P49
- Author
- Phare, Merrell-Ann
- Responsibility
- Merrell-Ann S. Phare
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- xi, 99 p.
- ISBN
- 9781897522615
- Accession Number
- 13-2-1 70,500
- Call Number
- 04 P49
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Glacier surveys by district personnel of the Water Survey of Canada. 1, The Victoria glacier
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24962
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1971
- Author
- Ommanney, C. Simon L.
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Inland Waters Branch, Dept. of the Environment
- Call Number
- 03.4 O1g
- Author
- Ommanney, C. Simon L.
- Responsibility
- C. Simon L. Ommanney
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Inland Waters Branch, Dept. of the Environment
- Published Date
- 1971
- Physical Description
- v, 18 pages : illustrations, maps
- Series
- Glacier Inventory Note No. 6
- Abstract
- Pertains to the
- Contents
- Introduction
- Description
- Surveyors
- Snout Activity
- Surface Movement
- Discharge
- Diagrams
- Photographs
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Errata slip inserted
- Accession Number
- 2019.96
- Call Number
- 03.4 O1g
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Heart waters : sources of the Bow River
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25255
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- 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
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- 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
- 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
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- Archives Library
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- Publisher's website
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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26164
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 317 pages
- Contents
- PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
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Historical perspective on the "Resources for Tomorrow" conference
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12962
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1961?]
- Author
- Thorpe, F. J
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
- Call Number
- 04 T39h Pam
- Author
- Thorpe, F. J
- Responsibility
- F. J. Thorpe, Resources Division
- Publisher
- Ottawa : Department of Northern Affairs and National Resources
- Published Date
- [1961?]
- Subjects
- Conservation
- Water
- Notes
- Photocopy. Pertains to resource development
- Call Number
- 04 T39h Pam
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