Discover Mountain Legacy in Discover Magazine!
The July/August edition of Discover Magazine is out and it is particularly special for the Mountain Legacy Project because we are part of the Ecology, Sustainability, and Climate Change section!
A 1937 look into the Nahanni
The Mountain Legacy Project has long hoped to examine historic glass plate negatives from the Northwest Territories. Last year, while working with research colleagues from Library and Archives Canada | Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, our wish was granted! Let us introduce you to 47 historic images from the stunning South Nahanni in the NWT.
Thinking about Thinking Mountains 2018
From Oct 2 – 5, 2018, Mountain Legacy team members gathered in Banff Alberta with over 150 other mountain studies practitioners for the Thinking Mountains 2018 interdisciplinary research summit. It was indeed a “peak” experience!! Read more about MLP’s contribution here.
Mountain Legacy “Sparks” an interest on CBC Radio
On October 5th, 2018, Spark, CBC Radio’s weekly program exploring technology, innovation and design, went out with the Mountain Legacy Project to do some repeat photography. Full disclosure – the repeat photography session actually happened in August this past summer.
Landscape change in Cadomin, Alberta – 1922 to 2018
From July 23 – 26th, 2018 UVic’s Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) joined forces with Dr. Liza Piper from University of Alberta’s Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) to rephotograph images from the historic Alberta Coal Branch area. Check out some of the changes in this area where industry interfaces with wilderness.
Rephotography in Amsterdam: Trams, Espresso, and Department Stores
Mountain Legacy Project director, Eric Higgs, finds himself involved in repeat photography project in Amsterdam, about as far physically and psychologically from the mountains of western Canada as one can get. He is spending the year working on his new book, Changing Nature, which examines the future of ecological restoration in a rapidly changing world. He and his family are based in the northern Netherlands university city of Groningen.
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