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.
Meet the Summer 2018 Field Crew!
[This blog post was written by Sonya Odsen, from the Outreach and Engagement Team of Landscapes in Motion. This post is a slightly modified version of the one that appears on the Landscapes in Motion website.] July already?! You know what that means! The...What’s up with the piles of rocks on mountaintops?
The significance of cairns for the Mountain Legacy Project’s field work [This blog post also appears on the Landscapes in Motion website.] As the Mountain Legacy Project team prepares to head out into the field, they are training new field staff how to...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.
Everything seen from the top of a mountain
Victorian geography, like other sciences of the era, placed great importance on the act of collecting. Landscape, though impossible to physically retrieve, was systematically photographed and brought back to government topographers as glass plates, to be reassembled, measured, and catalogued. The photographs collected here are from William Ogilvie’s 1895-96 survey of Yukon / Alaska international boundary.
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