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Heeding Mountain Hazards
Whether it’s mountain-work, fieldwork or play … acknowledge the environment you find yourself in, and take heed of its hazards. Check out how MLP teams practice personal responsibility, self-care, open communications, and situational awareness in the mountains.
Looking back at “Big Ice”: Mt. Logan in the archives
Zac’s post was initially published Dec 7, 2019 on the Mount Logan Ice Expedition’s blog under the title “Archives“. IMAGE Courtesy of Library and Archives Canada, Vine Lynne Canada and Abroad Album, Accession number 1990-087 0576 Archives are...
Who do we want to be here?
The story of ecological change in the Canadian mountain west over the last century provides powerful, poignant testimony about our very different histories and roles in the dramatic changes of the last century. The most important question becomes: who do we want to be here?
Revisiting Waterton Lakes National Park
The Mountain Legacy Project (MLP) repeat photography crew spent a week at Waterton Lakes National Park in mid-July. For most of the crew this was a first visit to Waterton; what we saw was a very different landscape than what was there two years ago. In September 2017...
A Viewshed of the ‘Lenscape’
The Mountain Legacy Project Explorer website provides a map-based tool for investigating MLP collections. But, unless you know the area the photos are from, it is sometimes hard to determine which way they are looking and how much of the landscape they cover. Viewshed analysis to the rescue — read on to find out how!
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.
Where the (Re)Wild Things Are
Realizing the detrimental effects our activities have on so many other species and ecosystems, conservation biology has turned to rewilding in an attempt to repair the damage we’ve done.
MLP photos featured on LensCulture’s Instagram feed
LensCulture is a photography magazine with a significant following (nearly 750k followers) on Instagram. Each week, they share the work of a photographer who has caught their eye. This week, they are featuring the Mountain Legacy Project! Be sure to follow them to...
Different viewpoints, same landscape: do land-based photos and Landsat imagery paint the same picture?
(This blog post was first posted on the Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation journal’s website to promote the publication by Julie Fortin, Jason Fisher, Jeanine Rhemtulla and Eric Higgs. See the original post here. See the full peer-reviewed article here.)...
Placing oblique photos on the map
By Julie Fortin and Michael Whitney [This post also appears on the Landscapes in Motion blog] The Mountain Legacy Project often uses the term “oblique photo” to describe the images we deal with, but what exactly does “oblique...
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.