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Fortress Mountain and the false promise of public participation in Alberta

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25149
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
March 2020
Author
Fluker, Shaun
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Call Number
P
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Author
Fluker, Shaun
Responsibility
Shaun Fluker
Publisher
The Alberta Wilderness Association Journal
Published Date
March 2020
Physical Description
p. 6 - 8
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Kananaskis
Kananaskis Country
Kananaskis Lakes
Water
Watersheds
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to the application by Fortress Mountain Ski Hill for an amendment to its water license which would allow for 50 million litres of water annually to be removed and bottled
Notes
In Wildlands Advocate, Vol. 28, No.1, March 2020
Call Number
P
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
PDF of publication can be downloaded on Alberta Wilderness' website
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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
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Series
Glacier Inventory Note No. 6
Subjects
Glaciers
Victoria Glacier
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Surveys
Surveys and Mapping
Water
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
Collection
Archives Library
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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
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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
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Man on water - water almost claimed Bob Sandford's life, so why has the Alberta scientist devoted his entire career to saving the planet's most precious resource?

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25115
Medium
Library - Periodical
Published Date
April 2009
Author
Gray, Kim
Publisher
Canadian Living
Call Number
P
Author
Gray, Kim
Responsibility
Kim Gray (author)
George Webber (photographer)
Publisher
Canadian Living
Published Date
April 2009
Physical Description
p. 164 - 173
Medium
Library - Periodical
Subjects
Water
Sandford, Robert W.
Conservation
Conservation areas
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Abstract
Pertains to Bob Sandford's work in the Canadian Rocky Mountains with water conservation
Notes
In Canadian Living, Vol. 34, No.4, April 2009 pg. 164-173
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P
Collection
Archives Library
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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
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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
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Rain comin' down : water, memory and identity in a changed world

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25257
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Sandford, Robert W.
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
Edition
First
Call Number
03.5 Sa5r
  1 website  
Author
Sandford, Robert W.
Responsibility
Robert W. Sandford
Edition
First
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
330 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Watersheds
Rivers
Glaciers
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Rocky Mountains
Climate change
Abstract
Robert Sandford has spent a lot time watching and thinking about water. This was not because he was predisposed to do so, but because the importance of water gradually caught up with who he was and what he was doing with his life. As this self-reflective book demonstrates, when one takes up the serious study of water, one cannot but be surprised at how far that interest can take you: from the very origins of the cosmos right down to the unique structure and remarkable qualities of water as a molecule. It takes you to the depths of the oceans, to the upper reaches of the Earth’s atmosphere, and into the centres of storms. You fall to Earth with raindrops, travel tiny streams and great rivers, go round and round in lakes and ponds. Your study takes you down to the very roots of trees, into the soil, along the dark, dank banks of underground rivers. It takes you from one person’s thirst to the thirst of nations; from the demographics of the past to how those may drastically change in the absence of water in decades to come. Following water takes one back and forth in time, linking us to what the Earth was like in the past; what it is now; and how water will shape what it will be in the future. (from publisher's website)
Contents
Invocation - Rain comin' down
Celestial rivers
Rivers of cold
Rivers of heat
Rivers of words
The heart of dryness
Irrigating Eden
Rivers of memory
Rivers of ice
As the world burns
Learning from the burning: The summer of 2018
Afterword - Rivers of hope
Appendix - a Canadian National Glacier Act
Bookshelf
ISBN
9781771603171
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
03.5 Sa5r
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
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Water, weather and the mountain west

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13641
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2007
Author
Sandford, Robert W
Publisher
Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
03.5 Sa5wa c.1
03.5 Sa5wa c.2
03.5 Sa5wa ref. c.3
  1 website  
Author
Sandford, Robert W
Publisher
Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2007
Physical Description
207 pages : illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Conservation
Water
Watersheds
Canada
Climate
Climate change
Climatology
Hydrology
Hydrology - Alberta
Abstract
Growing populations, increasing industrial use and heavy agricultural demand are beginning to tax water supplies in many regions of Canada. Since many rivers are already fully allocated to numerous uses, future economic and social development will depend upon how much we know about our surface and ground water resources and how effectively we manage them—especially in the face of climate change. The message to take home from this eloquent book is that it is time to dispel the myth of limitless abundance of water in Canada and throughout North America. We all need to be mindful that though our technologically sophisticated society is largely fuelled and lubricated by refined petroleum, it ultimately runs on plain water. In his conclusion to this authoritative book, Robert Sandford, chair of Canada’s United Nations Water for Life Decade, offers a realistic picture of the various issues and threats related to the future availability and quality of fresh water in Canada. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
Contents
Invocation: through mist and rainbow the water speaks
One: water, weather and the west
Two: the drinking-water supply in Canada
Three: what can we learn from others
Four: reading the wind: reframing the climage-change debate
Five: future landscapes in the mountain west
Appendix One
Appendix Two
Written on the wind: a climate-change bookshelf
Index
Acknowledgements
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-198) and index
ISBN
9781894765930
Accession Number
40500 - 2 copies
P2020-2
Call Number
03.5 Sa5wa c.1
03.5 Sa5wa c.2
03.5 Sa5wa ref. c.3
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Summary on Rocky Mountain Books 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
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Author
Legault, Stephen
Responsibility
Stephen Legault
Publisher
[Victoria, British Columbia] : RMB
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
208 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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
URL Notes
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