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by Julie Fortin | Jan 10, 2018 | Notes from the Field
The photos in Mountain Legacy Project’s online explorer tell us incredible stories about the landscapes of the Rocky Mountains and Foothills—but what about the stories behind the camera? Julie Fortin, a Master’s student with the Mountain Legacy Project, looks back on her experiences during the 2017 field season.
by Mary Sanseverino | Jan 1, 2018 | MLP News
Did you know that Dec 11th has been designated by the United Nations as International Mountain Day, and has been a day to honour all things “mountain” since 2003? This year the Mountain Legacy Project went all in on celebrating the day — here’s to more time in the mountains!
by Eric Higgs | Sep 26, 2017 | Uncategorised
Andrew Trant, Assistant Professor in the School of Environment, Resources, and Sustainability at the University of Waterloo. His work was featured in a recent article by Roberta Kwok in Nature on “Historical data hidden in the past.” Andrew was formerly a...
by Eric Higgs | Jul 31, 2017 | Uncategorised
A new digital platform for the Mountain Legacy Project is born! On July 24, 2017, we launched a website and new logo that carry us forward. Our main aim is to communicate more effectively what the Mountain Legacy Project accomplishes, and to make this news accessible...
by Eric Higgs | Jun 18, 2016 | Posts from the past
The Mountain Legacy Project is back in the field for 2016. We are working on a variety of priority repeat photographs along the Eastern Slopes of the Rockies. The core field team comprises Rick Arthur, our liaison with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, and Sandra Frey...
by nclgoodman | Sep 3, 2014 | Posts from the past
Well, we’re back in Victoria–a thousand kilometres and a serious road trip away. The team has spent all day, every day of this past week in the MLP lab entering the hard drives upon hard drives of data we’ve collected (100 stations in all!) into our...
by nclgoodman | Aug 31, 2014 | Posts from the past
Nested within this exceptional field season has been the completion of my master’s thesis fieldwork, currently titled 130 years of change: an analysis of vegetation patterns and fluvial geomorphology of the Bow and Elbow watersheds. It was the compelling accounts of...
by nclgoodman | Aug 19, 2014 | Posts from the past
It’s hard to believe that it’s mid-August already! We wrapped up in Shunda, spent a few days back at the Elbow camp near Bragg Creek, and are now staying in an old ranger cabin at Kananaskis Boundary. Our last week in Shunda included stations in the White Goat...
by vladimiralackova | Aug 11, 2014 | Posts from the past
After a beautiful week in Willmore and our last picturesque flight there over glaciers (with Mt. Robson looming in the background) we were ready to move once again. This time we headed to our third location of this summer–Shunda Fire Base in Clearwater area,...
by nclgoodman | Jul 30, 2014 | Posts from the past
What a great week! Tomorrow we are leaving the Entrance fire camp, where we arrived one week ago to begin working on repeating our Miller 1928 survey in the amazing Willmore Wilderness Park. The week got off to a fun start with a road trip fro the Elbow Camp to...
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